I think only canon lenses can compete with sigma in terms of autofocus stills lenses, but it’s like a 3% improvement for triple the price lol. All my zoom lenses are made by Sigma: no regrets.

​@@CartyCantDance What? AF on all modern lenses doesn't matter who of the big manufacturer makes them is more than good enough for anything... doesn't matter if Fuji, Sony, Sigma, Canon, Tamron, Nikon, Olympus or Panasonic is written on there... 20 years ago people literally measured AF performance in seconds to have a comparison.... they stopped doing it because it's so fast that it absolutely doesn't matter and you can't reasonably conceive a difference

@@LoFiAxolotl I wasn’t talking about AF performance, I was talking about image quality and micro contrast

@@CartyCantDance yeah Canon really has shit the bed on that whole image quality part though with like the last 3 lenses they released which are all by far worse than anything anyone has done in the last 10 years that even compared to some chinese lenses just lose.... If you'd have watched the last few reviews on them and took of your fanboy glasses you'd have seen that and they clearly showed the flaws in them with soft corners terrible contrast loss when shooting against the sun etc etc etc And in over 40 years of photography i have never heard anyone talk about Canon and Microcontrast in the same sentence... Leica and Zeiss are known for lenses that produce beautiful micro contrast.... Neither Canon nor Sony nor Sigma nor Nikon are known for their Lenses producing micro contrasts

@@LoFiAxolotl Micro contrast is just contrast (detail) at high frequencies (so fine details), which is hardly the exclusive purview of Leica and Zeiss. It seems that you may have been reading German lens fanboys making up new definitions of existing technical terms to try to justify their expensive purchases.

Jordan was probably kept in a windowless basement for the last 6 weeks that's why you can't even see him in this video... nice trick just playing some old audio of him and pretending like he's behind the camera though

I had to watch it 7 times. It's unbelievable

The focus pull looks remarkable, they achieved that by reversing the video, which is not uncommon in such focus pulls.

​@@Inuyashasoy Ah-ha! 👀

It’s crazy that this lens costs half the price of what Sony is asking… if atleast the Sony was significantly better.. or the pana or Nikon or canon for that matter… really makes you wonder why the first party brands are asking that much or how sigma is keeping those prices that low

@@LoFiAxolotl I've heard long ago that Nikon and Canon make most of their money on lenses. One could say they sell cameras in order to make a killing on their lenses. That's also why each company protects their lenses with a proprietary mount.

@@petercofrancesco9812pretty sure all camera brands are like that.

@@holdmyown32 Some brands are worse than other. Canon was no 3rd party R mount until recent, where as Sony is open but some features like lens breathing is withheld from 3rd party. Imagine if car manufactures were like we have a proprietary wheels to prevent you from using other brands or put a computer chip to detect if you didn't use their tires and if so then the car would drive worse. Camera companies are greedy scheming sobs.

Oh no, not another brilliant lens. I’m broke.

We didn’t even get a shot of a puddle while complaining about shots of puddles… quality of the videos has dropped so much

LOL

not like we can afford it all lol 😂

Hope for the z6iii announcement too😢

@@debarghyasenguptaphotoandfilms me too but there's no hint abt that. not even a trailer

@@debarghyasenguptaphotoandfilms Nikon has been the ugly duckling lately hasn’t it? Other then them buying one of the biggest companies in the industry there really wasn’t any news

Man same here 😂😂

wow @dalejones146, I’m glad to see your comment! May I know the reason why would you change 24-105 for this new sigma 24-70 art 2? I don’t know which one to get, I’m new in this field. I just got a Sony zv-e1 mostly for video filmaking, shoot some cinematic short formats, of course a few pictures down the way, etc, but choosing between these 2 lenses is a hard choice for me, what do you suggest based on your experience with the 24-105? And focused mostly for video. Thanks in advance!!

And wide open???

Can always count on Peta pixel to give us the most uninspiring sample shots.

i mean... i doubt they felt a need to update it more than a need to make more money... no knock against Sigma i love them and the 24-70 (as well as the 28-70) are the best 24-70 i've used so far... not just optically absolutely amazing but it's so stupidly cheap and just light

External Iris is a big one for video users . Smaller / lighter . Yes please matron !

Software limited frame rate? Whasat!?

​@@socas_nic 120fps in still mode and 15fps in continuous AF shooting if I remember correctly.

@@socas_nic Sony decided to cuck every 3rd party lens maker by limiting the framerate on the A9 and A1 to 15 fps bursts for really no reason… doesn’t affect most people but it’s annoying for those that are affected

@@LoFiAxolotl big L move from sony i didn't know they did that

70-200 dg dn sports doesnt have a software limited frame rate i can do 20fps

don't in fact I myself bought the Tamron (1 day before the launch), knowing this lens will come out. And to know that the sigma ii optical performance is similar or just a little bit better than the mark i. I didn't regret it at all. FYI I've tried the sigma mark i before.

28-75

@@xmanreturn Correction made.

It’s a fantastic lens… don’t let corporate greed and marketing fool you into fomo

gen 1 is better than gen 1 sony g master, but that's not saying much. I've had the gen 1 sigma. it made me change systems, not a dud, but sub mediocre

A lot of this was shot by Shawn and Raymond, and I agree it’s one of our best looking episodes! - Jordan

@@PetaPixel well aren't they amazing too!! I think I even preferred the video work here to the Ronin 4d video

Not the first lens this happens on. I wonder if Frost gets some bad apples sometimes or does better tests to find the flaws. Makes it difficult to know for sure.

The LoCA is very visible in the sample photo at 4:58. I just think their specific test for it was not particularly revealing.

The sigma 28-70 is always an option… it weights absolutely nothing… though considering it’s only marginally cheaper than the 24-70 now I’m not sure it has much of an appeal other than weight

You’re definitely not hallucinating that we’re Jordan and Chris evil twins… and when Amazon smashed DPReview (to bring it back 15 minutes later) their evil twins lost the funds to keep them chained up in a windowless basement and they fled and are now petapixel! Yes they are the guys from dpreview but my fabrication is much cooler

Dpreview, and before that, theCamerastoreTV.

What do you think about the 28-70? How's the focus speed? Bokeh? Any noticeable color fringing? Even though this lens is, probably awesome, an even lighter option is also attractive. Also, any reason that you preferred this Sigma over Tamron 28-75?

@@Daniel_Ilyich I mean it’s literally perfect in every way I could think of. I pair it with the sigma 16-28 f2.8. It’s so sharp that I soften my images in post even with a diffusion filter. I’m sure the 24-70 is better because of some weather sealing and maybe CA correction, but I’ve always had clients say wonderful things about my work with the 28-70mm

@@CartyCantDance That's very reasuring. Good to hear that from a working photographer, rather than a professional reviewer.

Sorry to bombard you with questions, I noticed that the 28-70 has a step motor rather the linear motors on the more expensive lenses, how do you find the focus accuracy? How does it focus in low-light? Is it noisy? Promise, no more questions.

@@Daniel_Ilyich never had an issue with focusing noise or performance. Like any other lens, if you subject is in a high contrast backlit scenario then your lens might not have perfect AF. but you can usually calibrate your camera’s AF settings to compensate. Hell I’m saying all this working on the lumix s5ii instead of Sony autofocus, so the performance is even more impressive

Everything is electronically actuated on Sigma DN lenses.

@@Bayonet1809 that’s kinda sad but I guess all modern photography lenses pack the direct aperture control… it’d be nice for video for smooth transitions in aperture

nonsense. only first serial batches, not all Mk1

Personally I would discount this 'review' from consideration.

Breathing compensation does not work with 3rd party lenses. It was disabled on the Sony GMII.

Australia is not the world, maybe that's why people say "most", because that is the case. Example germany: 1300 vs 2300€ which is close to half price.

You generally have to with externally zooming lenses as the balance of the weight changes (some smaller zooms might not have much of a problem because of their size)