Sigma 24-35mm f/2, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 are the only sub-1.6x zooms I can think of. The former being the predecessor of this 28-45, was released nine years ago, and yet still holds up well, for only 1/3 of the price.
Hey Matt! I think this lens is a dream for us photographers who work mainly with primes between 24 and 50mm, where a 24-70mm f2.8 doesn’t give us the look we want bokeh-wise. That’s why we buy f1.8 (or lower) primes right? So having only one lens with f1.8 aperture and not having to change lenses makes a session much more fluid and engaging without missing decisive moments. Cheers to Sigma!
Matt…I was truly amazed by Sigma’s 24-35 Art …Especially when using in Las Vegas shooting Models at Aria and Vdara Hotels. I use only Natural Lighting. I will have to test drive this new 28-45 Art..back in Vegas. I have always loved Sigma’s Art Line..my Favorites are 50mm and 85mm and 105mm and 135mm. The 50mm 1.4 is Tack Sharp! I will be testing the new Panasonic SR1 ll and with Battery Grip. with the 60mm Sony Sensor..with only Sigma Art Line in Hawaii…plus Taking Fuji’s GFX 100 ll with the Battery Grip. Yes with all natural lighting. Love ur work…always been a major fan of ur honest work.
If this lens is a preview of the 45-85 1.8 lens, then I support it with both hands. This would be really a game changer! I don't really use anything wider than 50, so i'd like to see what will be next.
Looks like a fun full day of shooting. I appreciate the honest review and I agree the zoom range vs size and weight doesn’t sound too appealing given the main selling point is the 1.8 aperture. I have the tamron 17-28 which also has an annoyingly limited zoom range but it is worth it because it’s small, light weight, and relatively inexpensive.
I think its a very nice alternative to everything you would shoot with a fast 35mm - weddings and other kind of reportage, for example. i often throw a 24-70 2.8 or 20 1.4 into my bag just to have the option of beeing a bit more flexible and/or having the option of going wider than 35mm when i use the classic 35mm and 85mm lenses on a wedding day. instead of the 35mm and the backup lens i would just go with the 28-45. especially having the wide end makes quite a bit of a difference when you try to capture a spontaneos groupshot in tight places, want to capture a whole room or location etc. - quite interesting lens.
Thank you for the nice review Matt ☺️😊 The zoom range of this lens is very small indeed😢 basically it is like have two primes 28mm and 50mm f1.8, and I think set up will be smaller and better picture quality with the two lenses if you are going for stills... I can see only advantage if you use it for video, removing necessity for switching two lenses😊 video directed move from Sigma... Hopefully Nikon will make something like Canon already did with RF 28-70mm f2L... The only concern what size it is going to be😮😅
I kind-of feel the same... I tend to think of lenses as a balancing act between flexibility, weight, performance, aperture, and price (among other things). For me the aperture & performance will not be enough to offset the lack of flexibility, high weight, and price. I would either embrace using primes or go to a wider zoom range at a narrower aperture depending on the situation. I definitely think that the Tamron 35-150mm makes sense because it tips the scale on flexibility (for obvious reasons). I like that one's range - my first DSLR was a Canon 7D with a 24-105 F4 and that was a good range for a lot of stuff... very similar.
There are some wide angle zooms with shorter ratios like the Sigma 24-35mm f2, Tokina 11-16mm 2.8, Tokina 21-30mm f2, or super telephotos such as the Pentax 400-600mm mirror lens or the huge and rate Nikon 1200-1700mm, but I don’t know of anything in the normal range.
Extremely unlikely. a 15mm f1.8 prime will already be huge and expensive. Putting in a zoom range to 50mm would make it commercially impossible I reckon.
Wondering if the same views can be achieved by leaning forward or backwards with a 35mm f1.8 without stepping. In that case a smaller 35mm prime would still be my preference. Amazing lens though.
The lens is almost perfect for a person shooting two bodies. Some choose to shoot two bodies with a 28 or a 35 on one body and a 50 on the other body. This would give the ability to have one body fitted with the 28-45 and a 2nd with an 85 or 105.
The zoom range of this lens is very small indeed😢 basically it is like having two primes 28mm and 50mm f1.8, and I think the set up might be smaller and better picture quality with two lenses if you are going for stills... I can see only advantage if you use it for video, removing necessity for switching two lenses😊 video directed move from Sigma... Hopefully Nikon will make something like Canon already did with RF 28-70mm f2L... The only concern what size it is going to be😮😅
If it were a 24-50mm f/1.8 it would be a way better offering. I guess it would have gotten even heavier and more expensive but at least the added expense would be more justified as truly being able to replace at least two other fairly expensive lenses.
I would prefer this range also and would give up the 1/3 stop to get the wider range if that helped with the size / weight. Even still, I wish this lens was available for Nikon as I would pick it up and run it on one of the bodies I carry giving me the option for an 85 on the second body without giving up too much between 45 and 85.
I really loved the 18-35 but a 24-50 f2.8 would have made more sense as a full frame version of the original especially given the optics of the APS-C version were spot on. Even so, I could see a use for it as a fast wideish angle but given Sigma are not giving the Nikon Z mount any love, for now it's a no from me.
6:17 Sounds good but not the focal lengths that appeal to me especially considering it's nearly a kilo to carry around. Maybe for event photographers? But exciting as what else may come, especially if Nikon would make some with their modern composite materials and keep the weight down. The Nikkor 14-24 f2.8 S Lens is incredible and so light for what it is. The way to go...
Matt you guys standing in front of walking street and blocking the payment for people to walk dont get anoyed about this, the payment is not meant for vloger to take space for their own agenda.
Unlikely; would've been released for Z too today, if that was the case. But I heard you can adapt SONY mount lenses to Nikon with the Techart adapter, so maybe that's an option?
Why would they do that? Do you think there will be more z-mount buyers than e-mount? I think sales of that lens are going to be dismal even in e-mount, much less in any other mount, no point to even try.
It leaves me underwhelmed, a zoom “range” of 1.6, take a pace forward or back, 1 thing that does come to mind is if you’re using at 45mm on a FF then put it on an aps-c at 28mm the FOV would be almost the same which suggests to me it’s very video biased?
These poor Asian people in surgeon's masks not knowing they were never meant to work for viruses, but rather for surgeon's snots not dropping into open guts. Thanks for honest review as always.
These are pixel nerds who is in a delusional world of getting better pixels with their camera. You should only upgrade a camera every 3 years. Camera phones continue to increase their market meanwhile fewer people are buying camera's Why carry a heavy camera in 2024?
It seems to me a curiosity project for the engineers rather than a valuable photography tool. After all, I don’t see anything interesting about the way it renders the subject.
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Sigma 24-35mm f/2, Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 are the only sub-1.6x zooms I can think of.
The former being the predecessor of this 28-45, was released nine years ago, and yet still holds up well, for only 1/3 of the price.
It's not for me for various reasons but I LOVE that Sigma and Tamron keep innovating and providing options that 1st parties don't give us!
Hey Matt! I think this lens is a dream for us photographers who work mainly with primes between 24 and 50mm, where a 24-70mm f2.8 doesn’t give us the look we want bokeh-wise. That’s why we buy f1.8 (or lower) primes right? So having only one lens with f1.8 aperture and not having to change lenses makes a session much more fluid and engaging without missing decisive moments. Cheers to Sigma!
Enjoy!
That is why Canoners have the 28-70/2 :-).
Exactly… I don’t just get why most of these big accounts criticize the focal length when it’s like 3 focal lengths in 1 lens
Great for weddings. I shoot 28/35/50. Could go from 2 / 3 bodies to 1.
Matt…I was truly amazed by Sigma’s 24-35 Art …Especially when using in Las Vegas shooting Models at Aria and Vdara Hotels. I use only Natural Lighting. I will have to test drive this new 28-45 Art..back in Vegas. I have always loved Sigma’s Art Line..my Favorites are 50mm and 85mm and 105mm and 135mm. The 50mm 1.4 is Tack Sharp!
I will be testing the new Panasonic SR1 ll and with Battery Grip. with the 60mm Sony Sensor..with only Sigma Art Line in Hawaii…plus Taking Fuji’s GFX 100 ll with the Battery Grip. Yes with all natural lighting. Love ur work…always been a major fan of ur honest work.
If this lens is a preview of the 45-85 1.8 lens, then I support it with both hands. This would be really a game changer! I don't really use anything wider than 50, so i'd like to see what will be next.
Looks like a fun full day of shooting. I appreciate the honest review and I agree the zoom range vs size and weight doesn’t sound too appealing given the main selling point is the 1.8 aperture. I have the tamron 17-28 which also has an annoyingly limited zoom range but it is worth it because it’s small, light weight, and relatively inexpensive.
Still offers more zoom than this one.
I think its a very nice alternative to everything you would shoot with a fast 35mm - weddings and other kind of reportage, for example. i often throw a 24-70 2.8 or 20 1.4 into my bag just to have the option of beeing a bit more flexible and/or having the option of going wider than 35mm when i use the classic 35mm and 85mm lenses on a wedding day. instead of the 35mm and the backup lens i would just go with the 28-45. especially having the wide end makes quite a bit of a difference when you try to capture a spontaneos groupshot in tight places, want to capture a whole room or location etc. - quite interesting lens.
Thank you for the nice review Matt ☺️😊
The zoom range of this lens is very small indeed😢 basically it is like have two primes 28mm and 50mm f1.8, and I think set up will be smaller and better picture quality with the two lenses if you are going for stills... I can see only advantage if you use it for video, removing necessity for switching two lenses😊 video directed move from Sigma...
Hopefully Nikon will make something like Canon already did with RF 28-70mm f2L... The only concern what size it is going to be😮😅
I kind-of feel the same... I tend to think of lenses as a balancing act between flexibility, weight, performance, aperture, and price (among other things). For me the aperture & performance will not be enough to offset the lack of flexibility, high weight, and price. I would either embrace using primes or go to a wider zoom range at a narrower aperture depending on the situation. I definitely think that the Tamron 35-150mm makes sense because it tips the scale on flexibility (for obvious reasons). I like that one's range - my first DSLR was a Canon 7D with a 24-105 F4 and that was a good range for a lot of stuff... very similar.
Picked mine up-- I'm loving it.
There are some wide angle zooms with shorter ratios like the Sigma 24-35mm f2, Tokina 11-16mm 2.8, Tokina 21-30mm f2, or super telephotos such as the Pentax 400-600mm mirror lens or the huge and rate Nikon 1200-1700mm, but I don’t know of anything in the normal range.
Very cool review of the awesome looking lens of that magnitude. Nice model and images. Great video!
If Sigma releases a version of 15mm-50mm Full Frame with f/1.8 and higher, It'll be game over.
I'd even take a 15-35/1.8, tho 15-50/1.8 would be incredible!
Extremely unlikely. a 15mm f1.8 prime will already be huge and expensive. Putting in a zoom range to 50mm would make it commercially impossible I reckon.
Wondering if the same views can be achieved by leaning forward or backwards with a 35mm f1.8 without stepping. In that case a smaller 35mm prime would still be my preference. Amazing lens though.
Really love the f1.8 for my videos but still lil bit too big and cumbersome. Great video anyway, thanks Matt!
Model is stunning
The lens is almost perfect for a person shooting two bodies. Some choose to shoot two bodies with a 28 or a 35 on one body and a 50 on the other body. This would give the ability to have one body fitted with the 28-45 and a 2nd with an 85 or 105.
Is that a GRAMS 28 bag? Looks great
Tight indoor portraits possibly it will be useful
The zoom range of this lens is very small indeed😢 basically it is like having two primes 28mm and 50mm f1.8, and I think the set up might be smaller and better picture quality with two lenses if you are going for stills... I can see only advantage if you use it for video, removing necessity for switching two lenses😊 video directed move from Sigma...
Hopefully Nikon will make something like Canon already did with RF 28-70mm f2L... The only concern what size it is going to be😮😅
which camera you used ?
Sigma invented replacement for 35/1.8 prime, and it's heavy and expensive 😁
If it were a 24-50mm f/1.8 it would be a way better offering. I guess it would have gotten even heavier and more expensive but at least the added expense would be more justified as truly being able to replace at least two other fairly expensive lenses.
I would prefer this range also and would give up the 1/3 stop to get the wider range if that helped with the size / weight. Even still, I wish this lens was available for Nikon as I would pick it up and run it on one of the bodies I carry giving me the option for an 85 on the second body without giving up too much between 45 and 85.
Definitely a video lens. Having the flexibility of 2 and half f1.8 primes with an internally focusing lens is really a boon.
I own the 18-35 1.8. Sigma is a great company.
I really loved the 18-35 but a 24-50 f2.8 would have made more sense as a full frame version of the original especially given the optics of the APS-C version were spot on.
Even so, I could see a use for it as a fast wideish angle but given Sigma are not giving the Nikon Z mount any love, for now it's a no from me.
The Korean music and the footage was like watching a drama
6:17 Sounds good but not the focal lengths that appeal to me especially considering it's nearly a kilo to carry around. Maybe for event photographers? But exciting as what else may come, especially if Nikon would make some with their modern composite materials and keep the weight down. The Nikkor 14-24 f2.8 S Lens is incredible and so light for what it is. The way to go...
Is that the Toledano and Chan B/1?
Wow! Well spotted! Yep it is.
What watch do you have? Looks cool 😎🆒
Thanks! It's a small start up brand - Toledano and Chan B/1
16-35 1.8 would rock
Matt you guys standing in front of walking street and blocking the payment for people to walk dont get anoyed about this, the payment is not meant for vloger to take space for their own agenda.
I must agree.
Pavement I have heard of. 🤔🥴
That makes it for more interesting video 😅
Why is it hurting you so much ? People will make their own way.
Sigma 24-35 f2
I really hope this makes it to Z mount.
Unlikely; would've been released for Z too today, if that was the case. But I heard you can adapt SONY mount lenses to Nikon with the Techart adapter, so maybe that's an option?
Why would they do that? Do you think there will be more z-mount buyers than e-mount? I think sales of that lens are going to be dismal even in e-mount, much less in any other mount, no point to even try.
The successor to the criminally underrated 24-35mm f/2. I love it.
any zoom with 1.5x range is useless.
song title please at the last part [Japanase Languange] ?
It leaves me underwhelmed, a zoom “range” of 1.6, take a pace forward or back, 1 thing that does come to mind is if you’re using at 45mm on a FF then put it on an aps-c at 28mm the FOV would be almost the same which suggests to me it’s very video biased?
Sorry, can't pay attention to the lens at all. Am transfixed by your watch. Please make a video on it.
Yeah, after your overview there, I'd rather carry a wide prime and like a 50mm prime.
These poor Asian people in surgeon's masks not knowing they were never meant to work for viruses, but rather for surgeon's snots not dropping into open guts.
Thanks for honest review as always.
I'll still take the 24-70 over this. more reach and wider and smaller and lighter.. although it is 1 stop slower and more expensive though.
Actually this is 1.3 stops faster, and costs $150 more than the latest 24-70
@@mattgranger Right. F1.8 F2.. I shouldnt short change it.
5:17 and 5:33 Is why anyone would want to buy this.
What happened with microphone? Sound of this video wasn't great.
8:24 갑자기 한국어 노래가 나와서 놀랐다.
Yummmy
that hungry azz of hers?
The lens is either here nor there
These are pixel nerds who is in a delusional world of getting better pixels with their camera. You should only upgrade a camera every 3 years. Camera phones continue to increase their market meanwhile fewer people are buying camera's Why carry a heavy camera in 2024?
8:25 오잉 한국 노래 나오네..ㅋㅋ
A coloniser getting annoyed by everyday folks walking on public roads minding their business. What a shock.
haha, you're ridiculous.
28-45 why????
Why not?
It seems to me a curiosity project for the engineers rather than a valuable photography tool. After all, I don’t see anything interesting about the way it renders the subject.
Too big, spendy, and heavy. Hard pass.
Your location choice sucks. Or maybe it's your editing. It's bad.