Features:

  • SONY E-mount
  • With nine rounded aperture blades, a stepping ring motor, and compact design
  • Perfect paring of high performance and pricing, Contemporary compactness, Art line Image Quality
  • Accessories Included: Lens Hood, Rear and Front Cap
  • For APS-C Mirrorless cameras including Sony E mount and Micro Four Thirds
Perfect lense. Worth every penny.

I love this lens. The 1.4 is great for low light and shallow dept of field. I use my camera mainly for studio photography of the tattoos I’ve done. But ever now and then I take portraits. The autofocus is fast and the quality is unmatchable. Here’s some of the photos I’ve taken with this lens and my Sony a6300.

Awesome lens for both landscapes and portraits - highly recommend!

This is my most recent lens purchase and it has quickly become my go-to lens. It is a small, compact autofocus lens that I use for both portraits and landscape photography. The low aperture makes for a nice blurry background and a crisp, clean subject in the foreground. It is perfect for if you're shooting a person or group of people with a nice blurry background behind them. It is also super effective at shooting landscape. It delivers high-quality, crisp images and the autofocus is FANTASTIC. Plus, it costs much less (~$100) than other similar lenses. I can't recommend this lens enough.

My absolute favorite lens for APS-C e-mount Sony cameras

This is the lens that stays on my camera. The 30mm (45mm APS-C equivalent) is the perfect all around focal length. It has very little distortion and vignetting and is wide enough to work in small spaces and still get the shot. Also according to DXO mark it is currently the sharpest lens for Sony APS-C cameras available. I have shot hundreds of shots on this lens and it is absolutely the first lens you should get if you are new to using a Sony APS-C camera. The lens is well built with good balance for the a6xxx series cameras. The auto focus is not as fast as a native Sony lens but to be honest on my Sony a6400 I could not tell you in a blind test which was this Sigma or which was a Sony, it's that good (my a6000 is not quite as fast but still very good). For the price this lens is like cheating; great photographs at a fraction of the price as a pro level lens.

is excellent for low light conditions have not even had trouble ...

I bought 2 months ago , according DxOMark is the sharpest lens that exists for E mount . my personal opinion, focuses fast enough , is excellent for low light conditions have not even had trouble focusing in low light on my sony a6000 , has a bit of distortion that is easily corrected in Lightroom 6.6 , the build quality is excellent , I give it 5 stars why it is a great product at a very low cost, especially because it is the sharpest lens that exists for E mount , only not recommend it for video because it has no stabilizer.

Friggin' Awesome Lens.

EEEERRRR MY GEEERDDDD!!! This lens is flipping fantastic. Best lens I've ever owned. Hands down. Perfect focal length on the a6500. Fast focus (even in the dark). Amazing bokeh. Great colors. Shallow depth of field for portraits is wonderful. I chase my kids around with this lens all day. Photos and videos. It's on my camera most of the time at the moment. I'm ready for Sigma to make me a 50mm and an 85mm of this lens. It would be awesome.

Wonderful

Incredibly great lens. I use it with a humble A6000 camera, and the results are much, much better than anyone would have a right to expect, given the price of the camera and lens. As many have noted, it is extremely sharp, but also produces beautiful colors and dynamic range. I have a few other lenses for the A6000 and almost never use them, except for the occasional macro (for which use an ancient Nikon AI 55 mm macro lens and Fotasy adapter -- works great!) and long telephoto (Nikon 80-200 f/4 AI -- works great) shots. (I have the Sigma 60mm f/2.8, which is also a steal, for portraits but don't take a lot of those.) As to how this lens compares with the Sigma 30 mm f/2.8, I don't know. That lens is cheaper and would probably work well, because I rarely use apertures wider than f/2.8 anyway. I'm sure the Sony 35 mm is fine. But you'll have to pry this beauty from my cold, dead hands. I intend to be buried with it.

Sony camera as the base + Sigma lens for the win

Sigma lenses rock. I've got the Sigma 30mm F1.4 and the Sigma 16mm f/1.4 and use them interchangeably on my Sony a5100 (a surprisingly little powerful camera package). The heft and build quality of Sigma lenses is impressive, but their optics are even more impressive. A little slower to focus with auto-focus than Sony OEM lenses, they still focus fast-enough for continuous video use. You cannot go wrong with this lens if you're looking for an around-town portrait lens that can also be used for low-light conditions. I use this lens for professional head-shots and portraits, and also for tight video work with a creamy bokeh and cinematic look.

Small light and fast........a very good lens.

I would like to give this 4.5 stars. Image quality wise, it's more like 4, value and usability it's more like 5. First, it's VERY SMALL AND LIGHT. I'm using it on the Sony a6000, and those two combined are so small and light it feels like cheating. Second, not all lenses can keep up with the crazy-fast focus and shoot performance of the a6000, but this little Sigma DOES. It's a sharp lens...what it's not, is a crazy-sharp lens. I'm spoiled by lenses like the Zeiss 55mm f1.8, and comparatively, this lens is good, just not great. Still, usability makes up for the minor failings in image quality. Very bright, very fast, very easy to use.

Excellent value, very sharp!

I bought this to pair with a Sony A6300 after being unsatisfied with the sharpness of the FE28/2 and the SEL35mm/1.8. The Sigma was highly recommended and in terms of sharpness it's a nearly impossible to beat APS-C lens for the Sony APS-C system. The caveat is that the Sigma 30/1.4 does not focus as quickly as the FE28 or SEL35, and I've found that it has accuracy issues in low-light more than the FE28 and SEL35. In addition to the focus being less than optimal in low-light I wish the lens were 35mm as I have become very accustomed to that focal range and 30mm is slightly wider than I'd like. With that said I own the Rokinon 12/2, Sony SEL 50/1.8 and owned the aforementioned lenses. The Sigma 30/1.4 has rarely left my A6300 since buying it, I consider it a must own for sharpness on Sony's APS-C lineup. I do miss the color rendering, and the focusing quality of the FE28, and the image stabilization of the SEL35/1.8. If you're an APS-C shooter on Sony then here is my recommendation go with the 28mm/2 if you want focusing accuracy and speed and don't mind a slightly wider focal length than 35mm. Go with the SEL 35 if you want image stabilization. Go with the Sigma if you want absolute sharpness.

Best prime for E-Mount

As many have said, this might just be the best prime lens for Sony's E-Mount / APS-C cameras. I use it on my Sony A6000, and it's amazing. Quick pros and cons: Pros: Best-in-class aperture. f1.4 is currently the best available on the market, there is no more open lens in this range. Cheap. Compared to the competition, this lens is an absolute steal. Cheaper than the nearest Sony and Zeiss equivalents. Amazing quality. I never knew a lens this cheap, and promising f1.4, could ever look this good. Unless you're a serious photo pro who's crawling over the pixels in Photoshop, this lens is near perfect at any setting. What small flaws it does have, are almost all easily fixed (e.g. very minor, best-in-class, barrel distortion). Anyone using this for point-and-shoot or basic portraits won't need to do a thing, it looks great out of the box. Cons: No image stabilization. This is really both a pro and a con. You don't need image stabilization anyway if you shoot with a tripod, so no sense paying for it. If you know anything about setting up your camera, you probably already know how to setup a fast shutter speed using the 1.4 to avoid almost all concerns about shaky hands. However, lacking image stabilization means handheld shots are a fraction slower and less stable than they would be with the Sony-equivalent lens that does have image stabilization. Really, I wouldn't be worried if you know how to setup a lens, but the Sony is the easier "point and click" lens in the range. If you're a studio photographer with a lot of lighting who depends on each individual shot being perfect yet you don't use a tripod, then maybe you'd need to worry. I just shoot in multi-shot mode to make sure I get a good one. Chromatic aberration. Also called "purple fringing", lenses with low enough f-stop values are prone to splitting the light on the edges of a subject, leading to a bleeding effect where sharp differences in light cause the object to have a purple outline. Note that this outline is normally pretty hard to see unless you're really blowing up the image (8x10?) or looking for it on a monitor. This is normal, and for this class of lense, this lense is still great for its class. If this is a major concern for you, either shop around, or learn to shoot around it (increase f-stop when shooting sharp light contrasts, for instance). Zoom by wire. Most e-mount lenses don't zoom on a 1:1 track with how you spin the ring, they relay that information to the camera which tries to guess what value you're reaching for. This is totally normal across the range, but some people seem to be bothered by it, so take note. This lens dials in just as well as any of its fly-by-wire competitors, and I find I can get exactly the results I want using the simple "show a zoom during focus" option on my camera. Overall: This lens has all the normal flaws of a 1.4 in this price range, but it costs less, and has the lowest f-stop you can get. Absolutely, bar-none the best prime lens for most users. Requires only beginner-level knowledge to make the most out of it. Spend one day looking up tips on shooting with lenses with low f-stops, and you'll be ready for this.

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