This lens is just wicked fun. It's small and light enough that you can just keep it in your bag to pull out any time.
It seems to make skies just pop even more than a circular polarizer does on a standard lens. Very few lenses will give you a cool picture just by pointing it up at the sky. This one will.
For framing shots, just a few steps back and you can get grand vistas. Get right on top of something and it looks like the whole world is a fishbowl around your subject.
With a 180 degree view, the hardest part about using this lens is keeping yourself out of the picture. Toes, elbows, and shadows all end up finding their way into your shot. The kids who are used to standing next to me if I'm trying to get a scenery shot are now in the shot.
There are just a few things that keep me from giving it 5 stars.
First the instructions say that you should turn off the auto focus to use manual focus. I like lenses that allow the full time manual focus.
It did require a little autofocus adjustment on my camera to get the best results. If your camera body does not support the autofocus microadjustment, you may not get everything you can out of the lens. It wasn't really bad before adjustment, just not as good as it can be.
Autofocus is fairly noisy compared to other Sigmas I've used, but this is a small nitpick.
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