themarce's reviews

Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM

My first thought about this lens was, that it's pretty well built and heavy and I liked how the lens feels.
After taking some pictures interior (manly portrait) I still liked the lens. When coming from a kit lens, this lens felt like a huge step up. However, after trying this lens outside it got pretty clear that the lens has problems with high contrasty situations. There often was something like a halo surrounding edges (eg. when taking pictures of leaves during sunshine). Also the colors weren't that punshy enymore during bright daylight. In the end I was pretty disapointed with the imagequality.
In total I tested 3 copies, all delivering the same imagequality on two different cameras (D5000 and D5500). The results were all the same.