Sigma 28-105mm F2.8 DG DN | ART Review

I’ve been in the review business for about 13 years now, and over that time I’ve heard the requests from my audience for someone to produce a 24-105mm F2.8 full frame zoom. The 24-105mm F4 zoom has been ubiquitous, but always the F2.8 counterpart had a more constrained 24-70mm zoom range. That has lead to countless deliberations between the bigger zoom range of the 24-105mm or the larger maximum aperture of the 24-70mm zooms. But what people really want is, well, everything. Canon was the first to the table with their 24-105mm F2.8 L IS USM Z lens, though that lens will set you back $3000 and weighs 1.3 kilos. Not an “everyman’s lens”, for sure. But while Sigma’s newest lens is a little less ambitious – the Sigma 28-105mm F2.8 DG DN | ART lens – the price is just half of the Canon lens at $1499 USD. Does that make the 28-105 DN the new most desirable zoom out there? We’ll explore that question in either my video review below , in the text review, or just by enjoying the photos in the galleries below.

Sigma 28-105mm F2.8 DN ART Review | The Ultimate Zoom?

Thanks to Sigma Canada (Gentec) for sending me a review loaner of this lens. As always, this is a completely independent review. *The tests and most of the photos that I share as a part of my review cycle have been done with the Sony a7RV along with the Sony Alpha 1 that serve as my benchmark cameras for Sony lenses.

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The top competitor to the new 28-105 DN on Sony will almost certainly be the Tamron 35-150mm F2-2.8 VXD. While the focal ranges are clearly not identical, both of them are traditional zoom range blurring high performance lenses. The Tamron has been my “if I only could have one lens” lens since it’s launch, and I use my copy extensively. I will draw some comparisons to the new Sigma lens, as I feel like both lenses are largely reaching for the same audience.

Sigma’s approach to keeping this lens at a reasonable size actually takes a page from the Tamron book; they’ve started at 28mm rather than 24mm. In this case, in fact, the 28mm wide end of the Sigma still trumps the 35mm wide end of the Tamron, though obviously the Tamron also happens to have an extra 45mm on the telephoto end. Which of those is more useful will probably mostly depend on your own shooting needs. That extra 20mm beyond 85mm does offer up some interesting portrait applications, allowing you a little more compression. But while Sigma is focused on portrait and landscape photographers in their marketing for the 28-105 DN, I think the most interesting market is actually event photographers (particularly wedding photographers). The Tamron 35-150mm has been my absolute go-to lens for all kinds of events because it includes the meat of both a 24-70mm and 70-200mm zoom. 35mm is very often wide enough in most venues, and being able to switch framing between wide and telephoto perspectives is incredibly useful. The Sigma allows for the same kind of approach in a slightly different way.

The Sigma 28-105 DN also adds some interesting close focus capabilities with a 0.32x magnification on the telephoto end, allowing for some “macro-ish” shots.

Build and Handling

Photos taken with the Sigma 28-105mm DN

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