 Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and in this video I'm going to do a quick review of the Sigma 14 to 24 millimeter f 2.8 R lens. Now I took this lens with me to Iceland so we're going to look at some raw images that I shot in Iceland with this lens and also stick around to the end I'll give you my thoughts on what I thought of this lens. All right so let's get started so let's talk about first a few things that you probably look for in a lens. Now one would be the sharpness of the lens to consistent focus whether it focuses consistently sometimes third party lenses maybe don't work that well with a certain brand's Canon or Nikon so I'll let you know what I thought about that. Also color rendition how do the colors look does it look sharp does it look colorful and if you're paying less for a third party lens does it look as good or better than say a Nikon or a Canon lens we're going to discuss those in this video as well as looking at some raw images I shot with this lens. Now I want to say that I was really impressed with the sharpness of this lens it was about six hundred dollars less than the Nikon version and I really thought it was amazingly sharp now as well as chromatic aberration I hardly saw any of that I didn't really notice any problems with that now color rendition I was really impressed with the color rendition and the focus some people say that Sigma lenses don't focus consistently I found that this focus perfectly all of the time sometimes even better than some of my Nikon lenses focus so as far as sharpness focus color rendition chromatic aberration I thought it was great let's go to the computer let's check out some images and then I'm going to talk about one drawback of this lens potentially for some people so stick around for that part as well. All right so here we are looking at an image shot on the Sigma 14 to 24 f2.8 now this is a raw image we're in capture one and you can see down here at the bottom I shot this at ISO 64 shutter speed 125 aperture f8 at 16 millimeters so you can go all the way to 14 or to 24 depending on your situation and I found the really wide angle worked great in this situation I think I took a few at 14 as well at the same scene here's another one this one shot at 16 but you can see I took a number of images this is Vesta Horn in Iceland this one here was shot at 14 so I just kind of moved around and I was going around 14 to 16 millimeter trying to just capture the whole mountain range but you could see just from the depth of color the sharpness at f8 I'm pretty happy with it if you can see the green grass here you can see the black sand you can see the blue skies and this isn't an HDR image it was able to capture all of this on the Nikon D850 now this lens that I'm talking about specifically for this video is the Sigma 14 to 24 f2.8 Nikon f mount but I imagine it behaves pretty similarly across different cameras like the Canon or the Sony so let's look at a couple of different images too just so you can get an idea so this was shot at the glacier lagoon as well and you can see the blues are very rich the whites now I shot this on just automatic white balance and I shot in manual mode with the camera but you could see that the image sharpness is definitely there the color rendition is there and if you look corner to corner you can see that it's as sharp on the edges as it is in the center and I'm pretty happy with the color rendition and images coming out of this lens they just look fantastic you see here I captured a rainbow it's just a really good lens in my opinion so let's talk about focus so the focus I've heard some bad stories about Sigma lenses how the focus isn't accurate you'll miss focus 50% of the time I didn't find that to be the case I found that this lens focused really quickly and really accurately and I don't think I have very many blurry images on the other hand with my Nikon 105 millimeter lens I miss focus on that all the time so I found the focus to be better than some of my Nikon lenses for a third-party lens I found the focus to be very good now as far as sharpness it's definitely sharp as the sharpest lenses I've ever owned and as far as the color rendition I think it can really bring out rich colors let's look at the blue lagoon here you can see here we've got different shades of blue we have white we have the blue sky we have the colors of the rock we have the green it really brings out the colors now this was shot at 24 millimeters and I'm just really impressed with what this lens can do as far as the sharpness as far as the focusing ability as far as the color rendition and I didn't really see any chromatic aberration now also here's another shot here and you can see those are just some of the blown out highlights I didn't really capture the whole dynamic range of that scene but if I click that that'll turn off you can kind of see how it looks and really it does a great job now as far as build quality I found the build quality very solid it seems like a very solid lens now let's talk about one of the drawbacks about this lens now it's a rounded lens so you can't screw on a filter like you normally would so if you wanted to put an ND filter to do a long exposure and blur the water or blur a waterfall you're going to need a third party mount adapter for that that's something to consider and at the time of this recording when I was heading to Iceland there was only one company that made one and they couldn't get it to me in time I think Lee filters is working on an adapter right now so by the time you watch this video there may be a couple of different adapters on the market available to you but that's one thing to consider is if you have thread mounted adapters for ND filters or a polarizing filter you'll probably have to invest in a third party mounting system and at the time of this recording there was only one available I think there'll be two or three on the market by the time you see this video so that's just another added expense so that's a concern you may want to look at a 16 to 35 millimeter that allows filter threads to go on that may be something that you consider or it may matter to you or maybe it doesn't but overall I found the image quality to be really good the color rendition the focusing the sharpness I'm pretty impressed with this considering that it costs less than the Nikon equivalent lens all right I hope you enjoyed this review if you found it helpful give me a thumbs up for this video and if you have any comments or questions you can post them down below now if you're not already a subscriber I come out with new photography videos every week just click on that subscribe button and then hit that bell notification and you'll be notified of all my future video 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