Sigma 35mm Art Lens Test Shots

My first few shots with my new Sigma 35mm Art Lens

I had a gap in my camera bag to fill, I already owned a 50mm prime a 85mm prime as well as the standard 24-70mm zoom lens and 17-35mm wide angle lens, so the obvious choice for me was to add the Sigma 35mm Art lens which is a lens I've been wanting to get for some time.

So I headed to some local bluebell woods with a fellow photographer to see how this lens was going to behave attached to my Nikon D810, I decided to shoot all the images at f/1.4 to see how it performed.

Autofocus accuracy is of course paramount when making use of the great f/1.4 image quality with its shallow DOF. And autofocus accuracy is where I have run into problems with so many non- Nikon lenses in the past, so I was nervous about subjecting such an otherwise stellar lens to the AF testing. The good news is that the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens performs mostly well in this regard.

Sigma 35mm Art Lens

First impression's on the lens was that it wasn't as big and heavy as I thought it was going to be which is a good thing when you have a camera bag full of other photography equipment.

The Sigma 35 ships with a nice zippered, padded nylon case with a belt loop for attachment (this is not a pro photo belt-sized loop). Like all lenses, the Sigma 35 includes front and rear caps with the front being the nice center-and-side-pinch type.

Sigma 35mm Art Lens

The Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens is a mid-sized lens with a solid feel. Lenses with a significant amount of glass in them (typically wide aperture lenses) tend to feel more solid due to their density, but ... this lens feels quite solid in spite of its density. Among other uses, I spent a afternoon carrying this lens around  St Ives and found it to be a very nice lens to carry and use even for long periods of time.

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