Sigma 14-24mm 2.8

[Josh Hayes]

Curious to hear from folks who have used this lens. Specifically I'd be using it on a Panasonic Lumix S5 as the other zoom lens to compliment my Sigma 24-70mm. I was shooting a wedding about a month and had a budget to rent several lenses. This was one of the first choices to test out. It wasn't available until the morning of the wedding so I couldn't test it beforehand. Unfortunately I didn't get to test it very much at all on the day of (like most weddings it was a high stress environment and had to use what I know worked). I'm curious if anybody else had the first (albeit brief) impressions that I did. It's potentially important to point out that I was using the Canon EF version with an adapter for my L Mount camera. When I popped the lens on

A. I realized immediately it's fisheye shape and the lens hood around it doesn't allow for screwing on any filters. Which when working on any camera without a built in ND filter set is brutal for filming out doors.

B. It seemed to me to have significant bowing around the edges that gave it that fisheye look and therefore rendered it useless stylistically. And I had to push in over at least half of the lenses focal length (maybe more) to get to a place where it didn't have that rounding at the edges. I don't see other people mentioning this issue when I do research, so I'm a little confused. Was it perhaps an adapter issue? Or is this lens only useful in situations where you need a fisheye look? I can't imagine that's the case but curious to hear from other folks. Snapshot of rented gear attached.


Has anybody used the Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 instead? Though that's probably not the best example because it's an APS-C and not a full frame.

I'm open to any suggestions of an equivalent (equivalent to the full frame Sigma that is) lens. Equivalent to me means something to cover a similar focal length and that is a constant 2.8).