Sigma 30mm f/1.4 - very sharp and a tad long standard lens 

i just order one for my APS-C camera! Im excited to find new perspectives with this lens! Btw great video, im now a new subscriber !

Great video! Nice Colors! Have the same Lens but with the Sony A6400. Had a project with it last week. ❤️ Loving the lens so much!! 🔥🔥🔥

The 30mm is glued to my G9 mk1. It looks like they were made for each other.

I just wanted to say I really enjoy all your videos!

Thanks for another informative upload!👍🏻📷

Nice photos BTW!

i'm buying this lens next month, can't wait

This is great and good info

I just brought home my copy of the Sigma 30mm f1.4. Unlike you, I prefer 55 or 60mm as a normal prime. However, I also use 40mm, so I sort of have both a short, and long standard in my bag in the form of the 20mm f1.7, and now the Sigma 30. I have the Sigma 16 and 56 on order as well. I like this Sigma trinity. The focal lengths complement the Panasonic lens selection very nicely. Had they just done another 25 and 45mm it would have not done so much to expand our choices. I am really looking forward to that 56mm f1.4, and this 30mm is a sweet lens.

Extremely happy with the 16mm based on your previous video! How does the 30mm compare to the Lumix 25 1.7 for portrait or cityscape sharpness? Love many of your choices for shots to show off this lens. Thank you for the hard work put into production value of your videos!

Is it possible for you to leave sample images to download? ... on youtube it is difficult to know with certainty, how good a lens is ... with the raw file we can confirm on our own PC ... thanks

from your experience what would you consider the best 50mm equivalent lens for micro four third cameras?

I’ve just bought this lens mostly on the recommendation from the late great David Thorpe. Up until now I’ve been using a 7artisans 35mm f1.2 mark I and unlike yourself I wish the sigma was the same focal length as I find 25 mm too wide and 45mm too narrow. At f1.4 it’s a good balance between speed and cost (and weight) and I’m sure I can make it work for me though am not sure if I’ll be using the autofocus. C

I have a G9 with the laowa 17mm 1.8, lumix 25mm 1.7, and lumix 42.5mm 1.7. I am considering selling them all to get just one lens, the Leica 25mm 1.4ii, or keeping them all and adding the sigma 30mm 1.4. Can you help sway me? I don’t like changing lenses. The stress about dust on my sensor drives me crazy. I used to shoot a lot of high mag macro so that’s where that comes from I guess. I often shoot the 50mm FF focal Length. I really see well In that focal length but I do feel it’s sometimes limiting.

Thanks again for doing a great video on that lens. I agree with you that 60mm is not the best lens you can usein the MFT world. Are you planning on doing a review on the Sigma 16mm 1.4? Would really like to see your review of this one and see how it fares against the PanaLeica 15mm 1.7. -Cheers!

Hello, Matti, I need your help on selecting between these two lens: Sigma 30mm f1.4 or Panasonic 42.5 f1.7? I made youtube videos and I currently using Panasonic 14mm f2.5 and sometime I use 25mm F1.7, I want to add another lens to my collection and I am looking for bokeh effect, which lens you would advise me to get? sigma 30mm 1.4 or Panasonic 42.5 1.7? Thank you so much for your help!

Matt great job as always but question from someone returning to amateur photography after 25 year break. Recently purchased a G85 with 2 kit lenses but wanted to add a fast sharp, prime lens & was considering Pana 25mm f1.7, but am concerned about Focus Shift as I like Aperture Priority. Other than cost, any issues between Pana 25mm f1.7 & Sigma 30mm f1.4? Thanks,

Es un grandísimo objetivo ,si costara mucho más ,sería mucho más apreciado ....así es el ser humano...

Hi Sulan, great video. I own a Sigma 16mm 1.4 for my Lumix G80. One question: what camera and lens did you use to record this video?

I'm about to purchase the panasonic G95 for mostly video use. I need the unlimited record time limit and also wanted to take the occasional photo, is this a good recommendation you could make?

Review of Sigma 16mm 1.4 plss! Thanks for your work. Memories from Mallorca

i have olympus m10 mark 2 and i am wondering about a portrait lens for it, in a cheap range, between olypus 45mm f1.8 and sigma 30mm f1.4 which one should I choose, my needs are mostly photography , less filming and I need accurate color and high definition, thank you!

Bro I need your help I'm trying to click some photos in my zve10 with sigma 30mm f1.4 but it is not giving me sharp image please help

hey sultan What is the difference of the 16mm with a 2x zoom and the 30mm. i know there is a little difference off 2mm or somthinge but what about the abortion or such ?!

Hello :) are you able to compare that Sigma lens with Olympus 25mm 1.8?

when using this lens with a g7 i got a lot of focus shift in photos

I just really like his accent 😁

And 4K?

What lens are you using to record

Good man, kudos for including number of lens elements. This is the most important paramater in a lens test and you are the first reviewer I have seen who has included the information. This parameter is becoming difficult to find, you rarely find it on manufacturers web sites because it hides a glory hole of bad practice. I can spend 15minutes on Google trying to find this info, usually only on a sales site under a lens description drop down menu. There is only one reason to increase component numbers and that is to use poorer designs that use easier to make, and hence cheaper, lenses. Why use a difficult and expensive shaped component when two spherical lenses will do the same. Myself I have no use for fast lenses so I limit glass to 10 elements. There are some good fast lens designs out there by people like Voightlander and Panasonic with lens count down to 14 which is my absolute limit. Olympus Pro lenses are an absolute disgrace at 20 components, I wouldnt use them as a door stop. I find this hard to understand as their low glass Olympus Premier f1.8 prime range is second to none. Why does this matter? Quantum processes scatter light at glass interfaces and the image degrades with each interaction. Light is backscatted and reflected off other surfaces and this kills microtones which are the most important factor in defining how well an image renders a scene. I can even see this effect in RU-vid videos where a reviewer shows an image with depth; a high glass image looks lifeless, flat and dead, an image from a low glass lens looks real enough to walk round in it. Usually test images are useless for assessing lens quality as all lenses will take great and sharp narrow depth of field images; very few lenses will render a cafe scene dripping in atmosphere but we never get those kinds of shots. This effect is minimised in modern designs by use of internal coatings but, coatings work at only one range of frequencies which is what causes the hidious rainbow flare that you see with these fast lenses. So this Sigma lens has 9 elements which is astonishing for a fast lens and is yet sharp. A brilliant lens all round then and I can see that in your images. Have fun ;-)

Is that available for sony e mount?

Weather-sealing added for the Leica L-mount version...! Engineers and physicians of the world rejoice ;)

it is weather sealed for L mount version only

Great review with good info. Also, your English is good and easy to understand, and I find your accent to be very enjoyable and charming. Good job! Some day I will buy you a cup of coffee, if I can figure out what to click on to do so. I used Sigma 30mm F1.4 and several other Sigma lenses for years on a Canon Rebel T2i. The Sigma lenses always gave excellent results that were much better than Canon EF and EF-S lenses, IMO. I recently purchased a Sigma 30mm F1.4 for use with my current EM10ii and my future GX10. May I suggest you also review the Venus Laowa 7.5mm and 9mm rectilinear MFT lenses? I own them both and they are among my favorite lenses. They are excellent, affordable, small and light. I especially like the 9mm because it has near zero distortion even though it's an ultra wide angle rectilear lens. It works great for zone focusing on architectural interiors.

why does everyone say this lens is sharp yet they cannot produce any sharp images or video.

Very informative video. It is an odd focus length. I don’t think many people will buy it because it’s neither a standard length nor a short telephoto.

Lens is smaller than I thought it would be

haloo.. this lens great for Olympus Pen F?

Oh, please ignore my previous message. I just saw that you did just that in your previous review. Sorry ;) and thanks again!

It is weather sealed .

so, it must be as fast as 2.8 on a full frame?

these "sharp" lenses are too big and heavy and really for pixel peepers rather than shooters and will be the bane of the new canon eos R