15 years ago Sigma lenses were a joke. Now the joke is on Canon, Nikon, and anyone else Sigma makes a lens for. Maybe the difference is Japanese excellence. The big makers are going to cheaper manufacturing sites. Just a guess.
Hey Arthur. I love how simple you make your review/comparison videos. They are super clear and easy to follow. Love that the Sigma lens bit the others looked nice too.
Excellent complete comparison. I personally shoot with the 7artisans 50mm F0.95 and have similar results. Up close is soft, but stepping back this lens is sharp!! Specially after stepping down to F1.4-F2.8 crazy sharpness with lovely rounded bokeh. Most lenses in with similar spec suffer from cats eye bokeh.
i really miss that 56mm 1.4 - for client work i switched to FF and sold all APSC stuff and first got the FE85mm 1.8 which still is a great lens but somehow does not give me the same vibe - now iam on the 85mm 1.4 dg dn and it finally gives me the same feel. as my wife has a fuji and it is her travel body i'm now aiming for a X-T30II BUT i will only buy it when sigma will bring out this small and sharp beauty to X-Mount - can't wait!
Nice outcome. The 7Artisans .95 has other benefits. I watched a video that tested the sensitivity of the .95, and I think that is amazing. So if I were to choose, I would take that .95 because of the low light results.
I bought the Megadap ETZ11 adapter which can use Sony E mount lenses on the Nikon Z cameras. Especially for the DX/APSC models Z50 and Zfc. I own the Sony A6100 and have the Sigma Trinity Primes F1.4 and they work great. My favorite is the 56mm. Comparing it to the 85mm F1.8 S Full Frame/FX Prime they are great. The Nikon APSC have only two lenses and now I do not have to buy any lenses. Autofocusing is fast and there was a little trouble in updating the firmware for the adapter but I am very satisfied with my purchase.
Excellent comparison. And now i want a comparison between the 70-350 Sony and the new Tamron 18-300 :-) The idea behind: Either the 11-20 tamron plus the 18-300, or the 17-70 tamron and the 70-350 from Sony.
Love your channel, love the way you review and the how and also the what you compare! I recently bought my first full-frame and I would also like if you review more full-frame lenses. I do think there are not enough TH-camrs reviewing apsc and budget friendly stuff in a high quality manner, Think that's wy so many love your channel, but some people grow/ sidegrade too fullframe and I don't like to let you go!
First of all, that was a LOT of pictures. Your wife gets a gold star for patience. Secondly, it seemed that all of the manual focus lenses were colder (blue-greenish) than the Sigma 55mm. Maybe they'd be better with an old-fashioned skylight filter, or a small warm adjustment to the white balance.
Thanks for another great review. You magically mix technical specs with real-world applications better then anyone I've seen on TH-cam. This review in particular was extremely helpful. Please do a similar one for 35mm. And, your son just keeps getting cuter.
sigma sigma sigma!!!! now they only need to make one ultrawide, somewhere around 8-10mm. btw, on a different note, whats the story behind your logo? and what is your logo? would love to see a video on that. should be fun to watch.
I also have a number of 50mm lens.My favorite is a legacy lens a Takumar 50mm1.4 manuel lens. I have the 7 blade lens with the Radioactive thorium mixed in the rear element glass. The lens gives the pictures a different look
great work...just would be better if used raw. I do comparisons before deciding on lens, and the diff between raw and jpg is imho as wide as apsc vs 35mm
The vintage pentacon 50mm ƒ1.8, M42 mount i did a similar thing when i was asked of all the lenses i own if you could only keep one what would it be, the overall winner was the sigma 100-400mm but heres the thing, when i put all my primes up against each other which included the sigma 56mm canon 32mm some sigma art primes like the 105mmƒ1.4 etc the final two battling it out for best of the primes ( i have M50 camera) was the canon efm 32mm ƒ1.4 and the vintage pentacon 50mm ƒ1.8 the reason the fully manual pentacon held on for so long was the renders it gives, yes its slower to focus than the modern canon meaning less chance to get fast moving stuff but when i look at the images i get from the pentacon they make me smile so much more than the images from any other lens. the sigma 100-400 won over all because i cant do long wildlife with the 50mm or the 32mm, but there you are a £30 vintage lens genuinely fighting it out for top spot on the primes, i do use the sigma 56mm alot for portraits, if i'm doing black and white i usually bump the iso up high (6400+) on the M50 to both soften the sharpness of the lens in camera and to give a pleasing soft grain, i much prefer doing it that way than in post, its a fantastic lens, no need for an EF 50 one on an M body,
Thanks for sharing another awesome video, Arthur! That Sigma 56 is brutal.. no other words about it. it just destroys the competitors. Very surprised how well the others did though considering their price point. Just a heads up.. @ArthurR .. Samyang have just unveiled a Parfocal E-Mount Autofocus 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.. expected to be in the $900 range
I started with the 0.95 and it's definitely an excellent lens, great for quiet moments and I can have fun using manual mode, but professionally the sigma is much superior, and the difference is huge
Both are great lenses. You cant beat the compact size of the Sigma and I think its a little sharper. For full frame the 85mm F1.4 Art is amazing. But its a bit more expensive than the Sony.
I've had the 56mm 1.4 and when switching to FF the FE85mm did not give me the same satisfaction like the 56mm did - you won't get any more quality from the FE imo - only the 85mm 1.4 DG DN now feels and performs like the 56mm 1.4 but if i had the choice to go back i would have definetely kept the 56mm 1.4 and upgraded my 6300 to a 6600 as a 2nd body for my A7III-35mm1.8 combo !
@@McCurryChickenWing thanks a lot for your comment and time to answer my question, now I am thinking to go for 56 1.4 thank you again for making things clear for me
I'm wondering if it's worth to replace my Sony 85mm F1.8 with Sigma 56mm F1.4. I'd highly appreciate a video comparing these lenses (their photos) side by side! And no, I'm not going to have purchased both! :D
You should test the Viltrox 56mm f1.7. Half a stop of light less but sharper across the board than the Sigma according to all tests out there. Sigma is dethroned for under $200, at least in the sharpness department.
Autofocus just simply beats manual focus all the way. I cannot nail manual focus with regularity, so at double the price of the manual competition I'd still pick the Sigma. Going at under $400 now. No brainer.
For lens reviews: Christopher Frost, Arthur R, Dustin Abbott. I thank all three for your excellent work, because none are better (don't bother looking elsewhere). Before I buy a lens, I check those great opinions. Please, do not forget to review DSLR lenses. I have no plans whatsoever to buy an expensive mirrorless camera (OK, I have a Canon M, but that does not count). No Nikon Z or Canon R are in my near term plans. I see a lot of reviews for lenses for those cameras. Nobody has them yet, so I guess it is interesting to those who plan to buy them or who already have them. But do not forget those millions of us who have no plans to upgrade for five years. I have a Canon 5DS. I also have a Nikon D610. I am very, very satisified with these cameras. It would be lunacy to abandon them, with my giant collection of Canon and Nikon lenses that match. You must chase the money, and I approve of that. But consider the millions who see no need to upgrade, whatsoever. BTW, your review of the Sigma 56 and Christopher's convinced me to buy it. For mirrorless lenses, the adoption will be slow. IMO-YMMV
P.S. I think that the after-market lens makers are stupid to follow the mirrorless trend. Where is the market in total volume of users? If you want to sell a million lenses what should you do? They should have no loyalty to the camera manufacturers. In fact, Canon and Nikon try to hide there inner workings and make them reverse engineer. They should make great lenses for the millions of cameras that everyone already has. But that is just common sense speaking. No marketing bologna behind that.
@Arthur R can you test all 5 lenses on your Full Freame A7c and rank them by how large their image circles are? These types of lenses from 7 Artisans and so on can be interesting even for Full Frame users especially if the crop needed is very minimal.
I love the Sigma 56mm, but I'm not getting good focus with the recently purchased 16mm. I have a Olympus 5 ii. Any ideas? I'm debating exchanging for a different one or returning it for the Oly 17mm 1.8. Any thoughts?
It would be a good idea to make a video testing the actual light transmission of these lenses. The difference between the f/0.95 and f/1.4 definitely is not a full t stop.
for people who have trouble understanding English in the pictures we don't know where the manual focal lens of the electric zoom lens is. on the left what is the objectif ???
for end 2021 : Please make "the best lens we can buy" video 1. Best Value Tele Lens, Wide Lens, Macro Lens 2. Best HighEnd Tele Lens, Wide Lens, Macro Lens
"Dreamy", well depends on the eyes of the person who watch the images, it could also be a nightmare if you always want the sharpest result, for digital use, it will always be better with a sharper Lens ! It is easier to soften an images than to sharpen an image. I will keep my Sony Zeiss Sonnar 55mm 1.8, great for both APSC and full frame. Oh, I nearly forgot about all the very good old analog manual Lenses you can adapt to Sony E-mount ;) Fx Canon FDn 50mm 1.4
Sigma Trio is great what they could really release a 2.0 with that is weather-sealed. You cannot tell me adding some rubber is impossible to reengineer or costs too much.
Thank you for this excellent comparison. Would you please do the same comparison for 35mm especially 7artisans 0.95 vs them 1.2. I know you have reviewed both of them separately, but a comparison like this is very helpful. Please compare them with the lovely Sigma 30mm 1.4 as well.
Hi Arthur, amazing video as usual. How do you think the 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 macro compares to these 5? I know its a much smaller aperture and macro lens but a very similar focal length, one could theoretically use it for portraits or general use but not sure how it would compare to them in sharpness and versatility. Thanks!
Nothing unique about the octagonal bokeh balls, it's obviously because of the blades themselves, and it's a mark of poor lens design. You also mention sharpness a lot, but it's not the most important aspect of a lens. In your case, a "dreamier" lens could even help hide your wife's bad/porous skin.
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10 years from now sigma trio will be legendary
They already are :)
15 years ago Sigma lenses were a joke. Now the joke is on Canon, Nikon, and anyone else Sigma makes a lens for. Maybe the difference is Japanese excellence. The big makers are going to cheaper manufacturing sites. Just a guess.
Just got the trio, hope it still works in 10 yrs & the plastics hold out 😅
I've got the duo, 56mm and 16mm. Still not convinced on the 30mm
lol as mentioned they are now
Hey Arthur. I love how simple you make your review/comparison videos. They are super clear and easy to follow. Love that the Sigma lens bit the others looked nice too.
56 is gonna be my next lense. I just picked up the Sony 16-55mm. Can’t wait to play with it.
Excellent complete comparison. I personally shoot with the 7artisans 50mm F0.95 and have similar results. Up close is soft, but stepping back this lens is sharp!! Specially after stepping down to F1.4-F2.8 crazy sharpness with lovely rounded bokeh. Most lenses in with similar spec suffer from cats eye bokeh.
I get the Sigma 56mm because of you Arthur and to this date I don't regret one bit.
Great comparison video Arthur, and pretty straightforward too, which I appreciate. I'd better get that Sigma lens sooner or later!!
Been following you for some time. Upgrading my kit lens to 56mm thanks to you
I recommend the 16 first. More versatile lens. You will find the 56 too zoomed in in casual shooting situations.
These are invaluable Arthur, thank you!
Sigma trios are legendary.
I have them all.
You deliver the reviews that people actually wants to see
So good! Thanks for this comparison video!
i really miss that 56mm 1.4 - for client work i switched to FF and sold all APSC stuff and first got the FE85mm 1.8 which still is a great lens but somehow does not give me the same vibe - now iam on the 85mm 1.4 dg dn and it finally gives me the same feel. as my wife has a fuji and it is her travel body i'm now aiming for a X-T30II BUT i will only buy it when sigma will bring out this small and sharp beauty to X-Mount - can't wait!
I have the 7artisans 50mm f0.95. Its a light magnet! Tad soft at wide open but easily fix with a quick sharpening in LR or PS. 👍
Nice outcome. The 7Artisans .95 has other benefits. I watched a video that tested the sensitivity of the .95, and I think that is amazing. So if I were to choose, I would take that .95 because of the low light results.
I bought the Megadap ETZ11 adapter which can use Sony E mount lenses on the Nikon Z cameras. Especially for the DX/APSC models Z50 and Zfc. I own the Sony A6100 and have the Sigma Trinity Primes F1.4 and they work great. My favorite is the 56mm. Comparing it to the 85mm F1.8 S Full Frame/FX Prime they are great. The Nikon APSC have only two lenses and now I do not have to buy any lenses. Autofocusing is fast and there was a little trouble in updating the firmware for the adapter but I am very satisfied with my purchase.
nice to hear that this adapter does work indeed.
I love this kind of video. Just on point information. Keep doing this bro :)
Nice Video, Good Review..
Really curious how these artisan would perform, your review was really useful. Thank you
Love the comparison videos.
i got my sigma 56mm f1.4 and its excellent...thank you
wow hats off to your hard work! 😍😍
Excellent comparison. And now i want a comparison between the 70-350 Sony and the new Tamron 18-300 :-) The idea behind: Either the 11-20 tamron plus the 18-300, or the 17-70 tamron and the 70-350 from Sony.
Where was the TTArtisans 50mm f1.2?
Great vid Arthur. Could you make a video about e-shutter vs mechanical shutter on the Sony aps-c line?
Seriously, you cant go wrong with any of them.
Love your channel, love the way you review and the how and also the what you compare! I recently bought my first full-frame and I would also like if you review more full-frame lenses.
I do think there are not enough TH-camrs reviewing apsc and budget friendly stuff in a high quality manner, Think that's wy so many love your channel, but some people grow/ sidegrade too fullframe and I don't like to let you go!
First of all, that was a LOT of pictures. Your wife gets a gold star for patience.
Secondly, it seemed that all of the manual focus lenses were colder (blue-greenish) than the Sigma 55mm. Maybe they'd be better with an old-fashioned skylight filter, or a small warm adjustment to the white balance.
Thanks for another great review. You magically mix technical specs with real-world applications better then anyone I've seen on TH-cam. This review in particular was extremely helpful. Please do a similar one for 35mm. And, your son just keeps getting cuter.
Have the Sigma 56mm coming tomorrow! I can't wait. Been watching lots of videos to make me feel good about spending nearly $400 :)
Yoo thankyou so much for this video 🙏🔥
Thank you for your work. Very interesting and useful.
I completed the sigma trinity!!!!! 16, 30, 56 mm thank you for all your reviews!!!
Sigma 56 1.4 do bring happiness when I bought it. It's AF is just so fast and image is very sharp and the price is just great. It's just great.
What a beast the 7artisans 50mm f/0.95 is! Also look at the colors of those bricks. Pretty big difference is you ask me.
sigma sigma sigma!!!! now they only need to make one ultrawide, somewhere around 8-10mm.
btw, on a different note, whats the story behind your logo? and what is your logo? would love to see a video on that. should be fun to watch.
another killer comparo
I also have a number of 50mm lens.My favorite is a legacy lens a Takumar 50mm1.4 manuel lens. I have the 7 blade lens with the Radioactive thorium mixed in the rear element glass. The lens gives the pictures a different look
Very good comparison. Pity that the TT Artisan 50 1.2 isn't there.
great work...just would be better if used raw. I do comparisons before deciding on lens, and the diff between raw and jpg is imho as wide as apsc vs 35mm
excellent review thanks
The vintage pentacon 50mm ƒ1.8, M42 mount
i did a similar thing when i was asked of all the lenses i own if you could only keep one what would it be, the overall winner was the sigma 100-400mm but heres the thing, when i put all my primes up against each other which included the sigma 56mm canon 32mm some sigma art primes like the 105mmƒ1.4 etc the final two battling it out for best of the primes ( i have M50 camera) was the canon efm 32mm ƒ1.4 and the vintage pentacon 50mm ƒ1.8
the reason the fully manual pentacon held on for so long was the renders it gives, yes its slower to focus than the modern canon meaning less chance to get fast moving stuff but when i look at the images i get from the pentacon they make me smile so much more than the images from any other lens.
the sigma 100-400 won over all because i cant do long wildlife with the 50mm or the 32mm, but there you are a £30 vintage lens genuinely fighting it out for top spot on the primes,
i do use the sigma 56mm alot for portraits, if i'm doing black and white i usually bump the iso up high (6400+) on the M50 to both soften the sharpness of the lens in camera and to give a pleasing soft grain, i much prefer doing it that way than in post, its a fantastic lens, no need for an EF 50 one on an M body,
Too bad the ttartisan 50mm f1.2 is missing in this comparison, was interesting to compare it's performance
Thanks for sharing another awesome video, Arthur! That Sigma 56 is brutal.. no other words about it. it just destroys the competitors. Very surprised how well the others did though considering their price point. Just a heads up.. @ArthurR .. Samyang have just unveiled a Parfocal E-Mount Autofocus 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.. expected to be in the $900 range
Thats good news! I'll reach out to Samyang and see if they have a loaner they can send over. Thank you!
@@ArthurR Currently only on sale in Thailand apparently.. it was leaked in the news this week that it was released. Let us know how you get on
I started with the 0.95 and it's definitely an excellent lens, great for quiet moments and I can have fun using manual mode, but professionally the sigma is much superior, and the difference is huge
just to point out that after a bit of contrast and editing on the 0.95 photos, the quality improves a lot.
Sigma crop lenses are so good i out them in my a7r2 without remorse. Sure the photos are 18 mp but the results are outstanding.
how about comparing it with samyang lenses
only real og's remember Technology Mafia
HEY, can you try make a comparison for sigma 56mm f1.4 vs samyang 50mm f1.4 II. thankyou
Great video, I have a question I have a6400 and a7III should I go for sigma 56 f1.4 or sony fe 85 1.8 ?
Both are great lenses. You cant beat the compact size of the Sigma and I think its a little sharper. For full frame the 85mm F1.4 Art is amazing. But its a bit more expensive than the Sony.
@@ArthurR thanks a lot 85mm 1.4 art is a amazing but expensive :( cant decide between sony 85 fullframe and sigma 56 aps-c compact and sharp
I've had the 56mm 1.4 and when switching to FF the FE85mm did not give me the same satisfaction like the 56mm did - you won't get any more quality from the FE imo - only the 85mm 1.4 DG DN now feels and performs like the 56mm 1.4 but if i had the choice to go back i would have definetely kept the 56mm 1.4 and upgraded my 6300 to a 6600 as a 2nd body for my A7III-35mm1.8 combo !
@@McCurryChickenWing thanks a lot for your comment and time to answer my question, now I am thinking to go for 56 1.4 thank you again for making things clear for me
I'm wondering if it's worth to replace my Sony 85mm F1.8 with Sigma 56mm F1.4. I'd highly appreciate a video comparing these lenses (their photos) side by side! And no, I'm not going to have purchased both! :D
I’ve had both. After some time, I’ve decided to only keep the Sigma. (I only shoot on an aps-c body)
apsc or FF body? i would stay with the sigma on apcs for sure!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I have Sony a6400, so aps-c
Thanks for the video. so, how do you think about viltrox 56.6...compared to sigma 56.4?
+1
You should test the Viltrox 56mm f1.7. Half a stop of light less but sharper across the board than the Sigma according to all tests out there. Sigma is dethroned for under $200, at least in the sharpness department.
Autofocus just simply beats manual focus all the way. I cannot nail manual focus with regularity, so at double the price of the manual competition I'd still pick the Sigma. Going at under $400 now. No brainer.
For lens reviews: Christopher Frost, Arthur R, Dustin Abbott. I thank all three for your excellent work, because none are better (don't bother looking elsewhere). Before I buy a lens, I check those great opinions. Please, do not forget to review DSLR lenses. I have no plans whatsoever to buy an expensive mirrorless camera (OK, I have a Canon M, but that does not count). No Nikon Z or Canon R are in my near term plans. I see a lot of reviews for lenses for those cameras. Nobody has them yet, so I guess it is interesting to those who plan to buy them or who already have them. But do not forget those millions of us who have no plans to upgrade for five years. I have a Canon 5DS. I also have a Nikon D610. I am very, very satisified with these cameras. It would be lunacy to abandon them, with my giant collection of Canon and Nikon lenses that match. You must chase the money, and I approve of that. But consider the millions who see no need to upgrade, whatsoever. BTW, your review of the Sigma 56 and Christopher's convinced me to buy it. For mirrorless lenses, the adoption will be slow. IMO-YMMV
P.S. I think that the after-market lens makers are stupid to follow the mirrorless trend. Where is the market in total volume of users? If you want to sell a million lenses what should you do? They should have no loyalty to the camera manufacturers. In fact, Canon and Nikon try to hide there inner workings and make them reverse engineer. They should make great lenses for the millions of cameras that everyone already has. But that is just common sense speaking. No marketing bologna behind that.
@Arthur R can you test all 5 lenses on your Full Freame A7c and rank them by how large their image circles are?
These types of lenses from 7 Artisans and so on can be interesting even for Full Frame users especially if the crop needed is very minimal.
I noticed LR is showing the Sigma aperture values not wide open. At f/2 and the at f/4. But the ISO and Shutter speed match the other lenses.
I love the Sigma 56mm, but I'm not getting good focus with the recently purchased 16mm. I have a Olympus 5 ii. Any ideas? I'm debating exchanging for a different one or returning it for the Oly 17mm 1.8. Any thoughts?
It would be a good idea to make a video testing the actual light transmission of these lenses. The difference between the f/0.95 and f/1.4 definitely is not a full t stop.
This will be my LAST Sigma lens as I already own the 16 and 30 mm Lens as the 16mm does well for Video I'm guessing the 56mm will be JUST as AMAZING.
you definitely won't regret it, it's an incredible lens for the price
Would you do a comparison between the Sony A6400 and ZV-E10.
Hi Arthur, could you do a similar video comparing sigma 30mm/1.4 to other fast apsc 35mm lens?
This is crazy.
for people who have trouble understanding English in the pictures we don't know where the manual focal lens of the electric zoom lens is.
on the left what is the objectif ???
for end 2021 :
Please make "the best lens we can buy" video
1. Best Value Tele Lens, Wide Lens, Macro Lens
2. Best HighEnd Tele Lens, Wide Lens, Macro Lens
"Dreamy", well depends on the eyes of the person who watch the images, it could also be a nightmare if you always want the sharpest result, for digital use, it will always be better with a sharper Lens ! It is easier to soften an images than to sharpen an image. I will keep my Sony Zeiss Sonnar 55mm 1.8, great for both APSC and full frame. Oh, I nearly forgot about all the very good old analog manual Lenses you can adapt to Sony E-mount ;) Fx Canon FDn 50mm 1.4
Please test new tamron 18-300, or even better, compare it to sony G 70-350 ;d
Although Sigma was the far best lens amount them, agree by us, photography. I bet girls like softer lens/ cheaper lens.
Nice review, do you think someday they’ll release an f1.0 lens with autofocus like the Fuji one?
I hope so! That would be awesome.
thanks for the review good one as always, do you gonna test the new tamron 18-300 ?
Who is a good Fuji X YT channel? I subbed when you were on M43, but now we've gone separate ways...
Sigma Trio is great what they could really release a 2.0 with that is weather-sealed. You cannot tell me adding some rubber is impossible to reengineer or costs too much.
but 56.4 has weather sealing and just passed 3 years after release
56 has the weather-sealed feature tho.
@@whitecatBP the 30 could use that too, it's beyond me why Sigma didn't seal it.
I love Sigma 60mm 2.8 the most ....
Have you tried viltrox lens what you think of them?
I have, the new ones are getting good. Still not on the level of Sigma in terms of optics, but getting better each iteration.
Thank you for this excellent comparison. Would you please do the same comparison for 35mm especially 7artisans 0.95 vs them 1.2. I know you have reviewed both of them separately, but a comparison like this is very helpful. Please compare them with the lovely Sigma 30mm 1.4 as well.
Hi! How would Kamlan 50mm f/1.1 II compare to these lenses?
Sigma should do a 56mm f1.2 aspc
Or directly make new sigma 56mm f0.95 with auto focus
Sir suggest me cheap micro lens for Sony @6400
Hi Arthur, amazing video as usual. How do you think the 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 macro compares to these 5? I know its a much smaller aperture and macro lens but a very similar focal length, one could theoretically use it for portraits or general use but not sure how it would compare to them in sharpness and versatility. Thanks!
sigma 30mm is not sharp i have it and its really not sharp anyone else have this problem ?
Are you allowed to keep the lens you review?
Sometimes, but not the expensive ones.
How do you update the firmware on Sigma 56mm f1.4 ? I find the AF quite slow on my a6000
You should try to change the settings in your camera, change the "af drive speed" to "fast" & change the "af track sens" to "responsive"
@@JemmiWijaya hes asking how to update the lens firmware
Красавчик!
Homeboy always talks about sharpness only. What about all the other characteristics of a lens??
FFwd to conclusion and saved 12 minutes
Man, you could have stopped purchasing Chinese cheap glass and get instead a decent 50mm from Fuji, Voigtlander or Zeiss.
Am I the only one who hates the overly contrasty look of the sigma?
Keep the sigma , trash the rest
Nothing unique about the octagonal bokeh balls, it's obviously because of the blades themselves, and it's a mark of poor lens design. You also mention sharpness a lot, but it's not the most important aspect of a lens. In your case, a "dreamier" lens could even help hide your wife's bad/porous skin.