- Hey everybody, Brian Hunt here,
thanks for tuning in for another video.
In this video, I'm talking about a series of lenses
I have just picked up a couple months ago,
I've been using 'em on a bunch of jobs.
These are the Sigma Art Series Zoom Lenses.
I have a 14-24 2.8, I have the 24-70 2.8,
and I have the hefty 70-200 2.8.
Now, full disclosure,
I have done work for Sigma (mumbles) in the past.
I have been done paid work with Sigma (mumbles) in the past.
These lenses that I have now,
I did not get any compensation for.
I didn't do any work for them.
I did not get any discount on 'em.
I bought them directly from my retailer
and paid full pop for them.
So, just wanted to put that disclosure out there first
that this is a review, just an honest review.
I'm not being paid by Sigma for this.
I haven't been given anything to do this review.
Now, I do love the Sigma Art Series Lenses.
I've used the Cinema ones, which I did in a video before
for the Sigma Artisan Series.
I have the 24, which was the first one I ever got from them,
and it was awesome, still use it all the time,
one of my favorite lenses.
I have the 35, I have the 85,
I'm trying to sell my Canon 50 mil 1.2,
if you want to buy it, link is in the comments.
I'm wanting to sell it
'cause I want to get the Sigma 50 mil 1.4,
because it will work better on my FX9
with the auto focus,
which I'm using right now.
The Canon glass that I had being using a lot
as a work horse before, I had the 70-200 2.8,
the 16-35 2.8, I had 24-70 2.8,
and I've had a bunch of the 24-105, f/4's, IS,
that were a real work horse for a ton of documentary work.
I mean there's a one feature documentary,
that I was a DOP on, and I would say,
probably 90% of that film was shot on the,
that all shot on the Sony FS7, or major majority of it,
and the, it was, majority of it,
90% of it was shot with the Canon 24-105.
It's a great range.
It has IS on it.
It's a decent stop.
Those lenses, the Canon lenses I had,
were over 10 years old.
I think I got them in 2008.
They're pretty beat up, they're a bit older.
I was looking for something new,
and I had used a bunch of the other Zoom Lenses
from Sigma and some of their Primes.
I did fall in love with their Prime 14 mil 1.4.
Amazing lens.
Super wide lens on full frame.
Gives you an awesome shallow depth of field.
You can get that like focusing really close
and have like beautiful fall off,
but I like using Zoom Lenses.
If you'll see in my review on my Fujinon MK Lenses
and why I like using Zoom Lenses,
is just for me, for the type of work that I'm doing,
for the type of kind of documentary style work I'm doing,
branded content, being able to move fast and quick
is one of my biggest things.
I don't have a lot of crew with me,
or sometimes have no crew with me,
maybe a production assistant,
so being able to stick on a couple lenses
and not having to be exchanging lenses all the time
is a big deal.
You know if you're on a commercial set
or you're on a feature set,
it Prime Lenses, could very well be
the perfect thing to use,
but for me, I've really found that Zoom Lenses
have helped me speed up my productivity when I'm on set
and able to get a series of different kinda shots
and different framing.
So, the first one I have is this 14-24 2.8.
It's a super heavy hefty lens,
but it does a beautiful, beautiful job.
At 14 mil on a full frame camera, this thing looks awesome.
It doesn't distort too much.
It's not like a Fisheye.
It's very usable.
If you're doing interiors, if you're doing stuff
for real estate, this is an awesome lens.
You're gonna be able to get a really wide thing
on your cameras,
and I really like, in my work that I do,
I just aesthetically really like these two ranges.
I mean I could say, if I was going out to shoot B-Roll
of landscapes and of nature stuff,
a lot of tourism kind of work I do,
I'd be very happy just to shoot with a lens like this,
a 14 mil, 14-24, very wide, and a telephoto
in a 70-200, I'd be happy just to work with those two
because I like that super wide landscape stuff
and I like getting long lens, compressing an image,
that kind of beauty stuff when I'm getting detailed shots,
and they both, I find they can cut very well together
when your cutting scenes like that together,
when you're doing stuff with nature or the outdoors.
What I also like about a really wide lens,
I find this on gimbals, on things like jibs,
anything with movement, a wide angle lens
really is gonna help to exaggerate
that movement, it can makes them look really cool.
There's a reason why skate filmer's and, you know,
action sports filmer's, and myself included,
I used a Fisheye Lens for years, and years, and years,
probably way too much, but one of the real cool things
of having a really wide lens
is that it exaggerates movement,
things that are gonna be at the bottom
of the frame, or gonna be moving quicker,
when you're doing a pan down off things,
it exaggerates that movement for you,
and it's a really cool look if that's what you're going for,
so I like using a wide lens, this gives me a great coverage
and 2.8 is fast enough
that I can use this in still some low light situations.
If I want to get shallower,
than I would be going in to my 24 1.4.
I don't have anything that's faster than this,
that is this wide, but again,
I haven't had an issue with that.
The next one which would be a big staple,
a very, you know photography kinda lens
that's used all the time, 24-70, giving you a good range,
giving you that kinda,
you know this for shooting interviews
and other things like that,
you know, I can get at 24, I can reframe to a 35,
I can reframe to a 50, I can reframe to a 70,
and all the little multiples or fractions in between.
So I can get some a lot of different things
and sometimes, I am doing that in an interview sometimes
if I know it's a part where I need to make a cut,
I might push in a little bit on somebody,
maybe I go from a 24 to a 50,
so I know I have a cut part,
and get them to redo those lines again.
A lot of times we weren't doing that before,
or in the last few years, because we were shooting 4K
and doing a 1080 finish on majority of projects
but now, we are doing 4K shooting and 4K delivery,
so we don't have as much flexibility a lot of times
to punch in on the image,
we got a little bit spoiled with that,
so I do play with that a little bit sometimes
when doing interviews.
The other great things on this, the Sigma 24-70,
it also has IS built into it, so I can turn that on.
Again, they're a great feeling,
I love the feel of the Sigma's focus
on their EF-Mounted Lenses.
It has bit of resistance to it,
so it's, you know, it's not like
using some of the Sony Lenses,
where it's like you can really feel it spinning,
it just has a little bit of resistance to it
and it doesn't have a hard stop,
you can feel where it ends there,
and this can be very helpful for me
for when I'm pulling focus manually,
and also when I'm setting this up on a follow focus
or remote follow focus,
that I can easily when programming the stops,
kind of find those places,
and I should mention to you guys why I'm using the EF,
the Canon mount version of these lenses,
when I'm using majority wise on my Sony cameras,
and why I'm not using an E-Mount, the native Sony mount.
The reason being I am doing that
is because I want the versatility with the EF.
I do still have some other cameras.
I do have a Blackmagic Pocket Cameras.
I'm probably gonna be getting some other cameras
in the future.
I'm looking at the Z Camera to do some testing with.
I have a GH5 we still use for some projects.
Having the versatility of the EF-Mount over an E-Mount,
I find a lot more practical for me.
It's a better investment for me
because I can use it on more cameras.
If I want to rent a RED and use my own lenses,
some other cameras like that
that will have a EF-Mount over an E-Mount for me
becomes a lot more practical.
So that's the only reasons, otherwise,
I know Sigma does make the 14-24 in an E-Mount,
they make the 24-70 in an E-Mount,
and they believe they are coming out
with the 70-200 in an E-Mount.
I haven't seen it yet but I've heard
that they are coming out with this.
So now the big bertha of the lenses,
this is the 70-200, it is a big lens.
It is, over my Canon 70-200,
I would say this is quite a bit heavier.
I don't know the actual numbers of the difference,
maybe I'll put that up for you guys,
but it is heavier, but it feels like it's built very well.
It's built like a tank.
A little bit different things,
you have your zooms up top here,
your focuses down here,
and this has been working awesome for me,
and the auto focus has been working great for it.
I really like the all black on it.
It has IS built in, and I've just been very happy
with how well this lens has been working.
All the great features on it.
Another big selling point for this Sigma glass
is it's price point as well.
I mean this is a huge selling point.
It's great glass, it's sharp, it works just as well
or better in my opinion in some situations
than the Canon glass, than the Sony glass,
and like this lens is way, way cheaper
than the equivalent Sony Lens in this.
I mean like it is half the price of the Sony Lens,
and I can't see any reasons why I would rather use
the Sony Lens in this, and it just, for the price point
of these things, they are amazing.
They are great.
They are just as good as the Canon,
just as good or better than the Canon,
just as good or better than the Sony Lenses.
So I'm interested to know from you guys,
what do you think?
What lenses are you using?
Do you use Sigma glass?
Do you not use Sigma glass?
Do you agree with my argument?
Do you think that these are better than the Canon glasses?
The only reasons I could see about buying Sony glass
and Canon glass over the Sigma glass,
and stuff I've heard from retailers selling them,
is that those other lenses might have better resale.
Okay, they might hold their value a bit more,
and they might be easier to resell again.
For myself, I'm hoping to be holding on to these
for another 10 years, like I had with my Canon Lenses,
so I'm not in the plans of selling this anytime soon at all,
and probably won't be selling these,
it'll probably be part of my kit for a long time.
By 10 years from now they'll be very banged up
and scratched up, so somebody might not want
to buy 'em off me anyways,
but that's one of the few arguments I've heard
why people are choosing to buy the Sony Lenses
and the Canon Lenses over the Sigma Lenses,
but if you do your research
and you look at the things optically wise,
these are amazing,
price wise, these are amazing,
and I would highly recommend these lenses to anybody.
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