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  1. Ishtar
    07.07.2018

    Errors in color. Some photos are covered with gray, the shadows are hard, in some places they are generally black. The brown hair color turns black and merges with the black crown of trees in the background. If you want beautiful photos from it - get ready to Photoshop.

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    • Н
      07.07.2018

      Nikon's Skinton is still nasty, and also an ancient sigma - God forbid to see such a thing. Although the glass is razor sharp!

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      • nikop
        07.07.2018

        Skinton is normal here, this is not d7000 and not a red canon

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      • anonym
        08.07.2018

        Thanks for the advice. I also wanted to ask: is Nikon or Kenon better?

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      • Valery A.
        08.07.2018

        Ask again from which end it is better to break an egg, from a sharp or a blunt one.

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      • anonym
        08.07.2018

        And by the way, with what?

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        08.07.2018

        With this question, it is a million times better to invest in photography courses.
        Or, restart your question with specific Nikon / Canon photo equipment models.

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    • mariovel
      17.05.2019

      I used Sigma on Sigma with foveon - I have not seen anything better. It is such a lens and it is on the sigma.

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      • Anton
        14.05.2023

        Not like Sigma 18-50mm f: 2.8-4 on foveon (

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  2. Molchanov Yuri
    07.07.2018

    Thanks so much for the review!
    As always, concise and accurate.
    I myself bought my daughter Sigma 17-50 2.8 a month ago, instead of Tamron 17-50 2.8. Which has little terrible sharpness at the edges, so also the stabilizer is buggy and rattles like a may bug. I already had such a Sigma, (it crashed unfortunately) and now they have fallen in price by half, so the recommendation came out doubly appropriate. I think that 18-50 for its price is just a great choice.

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    • Molchanov Yuri
      07.07.2018

      Need to read: your recommendation (T9 ahead)

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        07.07.2018

        The 18-50 HSM is a great choice, but this model is still a budget choice.
        17-50 OS is certainly best (if you do not take into account the original 17-55)

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      • Serhiy Todoriuk
        09.07.2018

        On the contrary, I wanted to take it, the person said I was selling I was selling and I didn’t sell it, I took 18-70 and 50 1.4 as a banquet wagon in return, I didn’t regret a bit :) 18-70 has a minimum of HA, excellent sharpness in the corners over the entire range, fast motor, focus point does not go astray for an hour of zooming and costs three times cheaper :)

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  3. Vladimir
    08.07.2018

    Thanks to Arkady for the next, concise and honest review. I want to say right away that recently, for commercial purposes (baptism, birthdays, photo sessions, etc.) I used this particular lens (which was presented in the review) in conjunction with Nikon d7000. The lens coped with the tasks well, there were no special complaints about the glass. Personally, I like weighty lenses (such as the 17-50mm F / 2.8 VC tamron, and of course the super Nikon 17-55mm f / 2.8G, which I want to purchase).
    For this, I sell (exactly the one that was in the review) sigma for 4900 UAH, who are interested in calling 095 205 45 01, 068 557 61 90 Vladimir. Photo robots shot with this lens can look at https://www.facebook.com/Volodymyr.foto.

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  4. ViktorGL
    15.07.2018

    I have almost the same (non-motorized, only with the macro inscription), on d7000. At f2,8, the sharpness is like that of a whale 18-55, but already at f4 it is ideal (no worse than a fifty dollar). Focuses quite quickly (faster than the whale, a little slower than the 24-70 nano, but did not experience a lack of speed). The white balance is perfect. Very clean and clear picture. 50 mm are "not real", similar to 40mm, 50 1,8D increases more, respectively, and bokeshku 2,8 dauses a little stronger.
    Sometimes it may seem that there is back focus, but with 35 and 50 1,8g in poor light, this happened, such a feature of the d7000. Worse is the other: if the camera has a TTL flash (meike), even if it is in M ​​mode, the camera focuses about half the distance to the subject :(. It is treated by switching to af-c mode and assigning af to the ae-lock button -on. Autofocus highlighting doesn’t make a fuss anymore, but it doesn’t really bother.
    135mm is sometimes not enough)).
    When buying it, it had a defect - the zoom and focus ring were spinning at the same time, very tightly, touching each other, autofocus with autozoom turned out to be 8 /. I handled him a little, and everything became perfectly soft and smooth.
    Pleases.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      15.07.2018

      You have a Macro version, it is optically slightly different, 1 ELD element was added there, and many other changes.

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  5. FED2
    22.09.2018

    IS THERE ANY DISPERSION GLASSES IN THIS LENS?

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    • B. R. P.
      23.09.2018

      From the table at the beginning of the review: "SLD (Special Low Dispersion) - special low-dispersion elements in the optical scheme
      ...
      1 low dispersion element SLD ”

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  6. Alexander
    12.04.2020

    Arkady, please answer. D3200 with a Sigma Zoom DC 18-200mm 1: 3.5-6.3 HSM OS lens and with a SIGMA ZOOM 18-50mm 1: 2.8 EX DC (D) lens. With a sigma lens, 18-50 frames are blurred. Based on your article, this glass will not fit such a 24 pixel Matrix. Or there is another parable. Example:

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      12.04.2020

      Without a clue from where and what kind of crop (what part of the frame and what increase). I can not answer

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      • Alexander
        15.04.2020

        Thank you

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    • BB
      12.04.2020

      clear back focus

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      • Alexander
        15.04.2020

        Thanks, I didn't know that. I will look for how to cure.

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    • Serge
      20.06.2020

      I think the focus on the above example is on the wall of the cabinet, hence the soap.

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      • Serge
        20.06.2020

        I will add. You focused manually, and confirmation of focus by a green dot is not always true (especially on younger cameras). Focus on LiveView.

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    • Ssirman
      22.10.2020

      there is no autofocus, so you need to catch focus manually

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  7. Alexander
    12.04.2020

    Sigma Zoom DC 18-200mm 1: 3.5-6.3 HSM OS m 1 \ 4 f5 iso100

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  8. Alexander
    12.04.2020

    SIGMA ZOOM 18-50mm 1: 2.8 EX DC (D) m 1 \ 5 f5 iso100

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    • Valery A.
      12.04.2020

      But in the photo from 18-50 sigma, the panel at the back is sharper, isn't it back-focus?

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      • Alexander
        15.04.2020

        Yes, the panel is clearly in sharpness.

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  9. Sergei
    12.10.2021

    Can someone tell me from their experience ... If there is a Nnikkor 35mm 1.8G, is there any sense in this Sigme for universal tasks?

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    • B. R. P.
      12.10.2021

      For universal tasks, of course, there is a sense in such or similar in focal and aperture lens. You will have both a fairly wide angle and a more portrait angle compared to 35mm. f. R. 50mm. and ample aperture of 2,8.

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  10. Dmitriy
    04.07.2023

    I bought here by chance for little money this lens in the version for Canon as a plug for 7d. And I was very surprised, the lens is incredibly sharp open, although it would seem that it was developed at a time when there were no matrices like 7d at 18MP, none of the manufacturers rose above 8. Focusing is also quite fast and quite quiet, although not HSM, I did not observe any misses except for moving objects. It is inconvenient, however, after the Canon USM, to manually focus, necessarily switching to MF, but this is a matter of habit. The drawing is nice too. A little afraid of oncoming light, but I never caught hares with a hood, no matter how hard I tried. The impression is spoiled only by the body paint, which is worn and shabby around, it was not for nothing that Sigma subsequently abandoned such a color. And so a good lens for travel. I will replace 17-40 L and fifty dollars.

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