Behind the scenes, How-To, Photo Life Tim Engle Behind the scenes, How-To, Photo Life Tim Engle

30 days with a 40

If you ever hang out with me you'll notice that for the most part, I am a prime lens shooter. Not that I don't like zoom lenses, but they don't have a great place in my bag for what I do. At the moment I have an 85mm prime and the 35mm prime, both from SIGMA.

If you ever hang out with me you'll notice that for the most part, I am a prime lens shooter. Not that I don't like zoom lenses, but they don't have a great place in my bag for what I do. At the moment I have an 85mm prime and the 35mm prime, both from SIGMA. Those two lenses seem to be able to cover everything I need to do from portrait to full body images. Lately, I've been thinking about adding something in the middle, probably a 50mm. Talking with the SIGMA rep, he suggested that I try out the brand new 40mm F1.4 DG HSM. He kindly offered to send it to me to use for a month, well, of course, I'll said yes! When I received the lens in the mail, the first thing that I noticed was this lens was a substantial piece of glass. The build quality on it is impressive, it definitely feels like a solid lens.

Knowing that I had the lens for 30 days, my goal was to put it in as many scenarios as I could to see how the lens performed.

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I have to say that I'm very impressed as it has very minimal vignetting for a wide lens. It focuses very fast and is exceptionally sharp. I worked the lens quite a bit at F1.4 and it was always spot on.

I most certainly will be adding this lens to my bag in the near future.

40mm F1.4 DG HSM in action with the amazing Anna Lisa Wagner

40mm F1.4 DG HSM in action with the amazing Anna Lisa Wagner

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