Best Sigma Lenses | 2025

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The best Sigma lenses include some of the most innovative, high-quality and affordable lenses across a number of camera systems. From DSLRs to mirrorless models, many popular cameras can make great use of a Sigma-made lens, and in this guide we have selected just a few of our favourites. 

We’ve split the guide up into mirrorless and DSLR lenses, and have specified for all of our entry which mounts they are compatible with. You’ll see some mounts more frequently than others — Sigma has made a lot of lenses for Sony over the years, for instance. Also, given that Sigma was part of the original L-mount alliance with Panasonic and Leica, it’s not exactly a surprise that the manufacturer places a high priority on producing lenses that are compatible with the L-mount system.

Our guide includes plenty of lenses from Sigma’s three main lines — “Art” lenses, which prioritise creative expression; “Sports” lenses, which are made for speed; and “Contemporary” lenses, which deliver a lightweight build and an affordable price tag. Also, bear in mind that we’re not dealing with Sigma’s cine lenses in this guide — that’ll be for a future article

Best Mirrorless Lenses

First up, we’re looking at some of our favourite Sigma lenses for mirrorless systems. Sigma offers a broad range of lenses covering multiple different mounts. While there are the most options for Sony E-mount and L-mount, Sigma also offers plenty of lenses for Fujifilm X-mount, Nikon Z-mount, Micro Four Thirds and — most recently — Canon RF-mount. Here is a selection of the lenses that have impressed us the most, with options for all budgets.

Sigma 10-18mm f2.8 AF DC DN Contemporary Lens for Sony E

£649.00 View

Pros:

  • Super-light and compact
  • Useful wide-angle view for landscapes and vlogging
  • Can work well for macro imaging

Cons:

  • APS-C only
  • No stabilisation

Aperture: f2.8 maximum

Focal Length: 10-18mm (equivalent to 15-27mm on APS-C sensors)

Features: Ultra-wide zoom range with excellent optical performance for landscapes and architecture

Autofocus: Stepping motor for fast, smooth, and silent focusing, ideal for stills and video

Build Quality: Lightweight yet durable design with dust- and splash-resistant sealing


Available mounts: Canon RF-S, Fujifilm X, L-mount (APS-C), Sony E

Small and light, this is a lens designed specifically for APS-C systems. This means that while it’s available for RF and E mounts, it’s specifically made to fit the smaller-sensor cameras like the Canon EOS R50 or the Sony A6700. It’s also available for Fujifilm X — an entirely APS-C system — and L-mount, which doesn’t really have APS-C cameras other than the Leica CL.

This wide zoom is very lightweight, and offers plenty of functionality for both photographers and videographers. Its constant aperture of F2.8 significantly expands your versatility in different lighting conditions, and the large 109.7°angle of view means you can really fit a lot in the frame. The focus system is entirely internal, meaning the lens doesn't change physical size when focusing, which is useful if you’re balancing it on a gimbal — and video shooters will almost certainly want a gimbal, as the lens doesn't have any of its own stabilisation. 

 

Sigma 15mm f1.4 AF DG DN Diagonal Fisheye I Art Lens for Sony E

£1,799.00 View

Pros:

  • Incredibly expansive field of view
  • Fast max aperture
  • Weather-resistant build and features

Cons:

  • Quite a specialised lens
  • Rear filters only

Aperture: f1.4 maximum

Focal Length: Ultra-wide-angle diagonal fisheye for unique and creative perspectives

Features: Exceptional optical design with advanced coatings to minimise flare and ghosting

Autofocus: High-speed stepping motor for precise and quiet focusing, optimised for stills and video

Build Quality: Premium Art-series construction with weather-sealing for reliable performance in challenging conditions


Sigma has long been known for innovation, and the Sigma 15mm f1.4 AF DG DN Diagonal Fisheye I Art lens turned heads when it was announced. It’s the first full-frame F1.4 diagonal fisheye lens, delivering an incredibly expansive 180° field of view with an F1.4 maximum aperture that opens up possibilities for low-light shooting. This makes it a brilliant choice for astrophotography and nightscapes, allowing you to really open up and capture a wide vista. Barrel distortion is, of course, highly visible and pronounced — just what you want from a fisheye lens. Images look distinctive and brilliant.

Naturally, you’re not going to get a front-mounted filter on this thing, as it has a bulbous front element, but there is an option to slot in rear-mounted filters if you want to control light levels or quality. The build is also weather-resistant, with a lens heater retainer to ward off condensation when using the lens in cold conditions. The lens features a clickless aperture ring, which is useful for video.

 

Sigma 28-45mm f1.8 DG DN Art Lens for Sony E

£1,299.00 View

Pros:

  • Bright F1.8 aperture across whole zoom range
  • Consistent minimum focus distance of 30cm
  • Brilliant optical performance

Cons:

  • A fairly narrow zoom range

Aperture: f1.8 maximum

Focal Length: Versatile standard zoom range for general-purpose and creative shooting

Features: Advanced optics with superior sharpness and minimal aberration, ideal for low-light and portrait work

Autofocus: High-speed stepping motor for smooth and accurate focusing, suitable for both stills and video

Build Quality: Premium Art-series construction with robust design and weather-sealing for durability


Available mounts: Sony E, L-mount

Another world’s first from Sigma, this zoom lens maintains a constant aperture of F1.8 from 28mm to 45mm, giving you plenty of shooting latitude in low light. Combine this with the 11-blade aperture and you’ve got a potent lens for producing a shallow depth of field, in ways that are useful for both stills and video. This lens is pretty well optimised for video all-around, with an internal zooming design that means the length doesn’t change when you zoom in, and a click switch for the aperture ring.

The lens weighs 960g, which is on the heavy side, but for an F1.8 zoom lens is certainly not bad. Some users may find the zoom range quite restricting — if you think you might want to regularly go wider than 28mm or longer than 45mm, this might not be the lens for you. For many users however, particularly in video, that range is a pretty good sweet spot for day-to-day shooting. 

 

Sigma 56mm f1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens for Micro Four Thirds

£419.00 View

Pros:

  • Available for loads of mounts
  • Very compact and light
  • Crisp images with shallow depth of field

Cons:

  • No stabilisation
  • No splash protection

Aperture: f1.4 maximum

Focal Length: 56mm (equivalent to 84mm on APS-C sensors)

Features: Compact design with excellent sharpness and smooth bokeh for portraits and low-light shooting

Autofocus: High-speed stepping motor for fast, silent, and accurate focusing

Build Quality: Sturdy construction with a protective gasket at the mount; lacks full weather sealing


Available mounts: Canon RF, Sony E, Nikon Z (DX), Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, L-mount (APS-C), Micro Four Thirds

One of Sigma’s most widely available lenses, this lightweight option for crop-sensor cameras comes in many different mount flavours, as you can see. It produces an equivalent focal length of around 84mm on APS-C bodies, and 112mm on Micro Four Thirds, meaning it falls firmly in the portrait-friendly short telephoto category. It’s aided in this by its lovely F1.4 maximum aperture, which allows for the creation of images with a beautifully shallow depth of field. 

Image quality is crisp and punchy across the board, and the build of the lens is very lightweight indeed, which makes it a nicely portable addition to the kit bag. The lens construction itself incorporates ten premium elements in six groups, including a special low dispersion (SLD) element to reduce aberrations and two aspherical elements to limit distortion. Autofocus performance is consistently good across the board, and in many individual cases it has been tweaked and optimised to play well with the specific camera system the lens is designed for. 

 

Sigma 500mm f5.6 AF DG DN OS I Sports Lens for Sony E

£2,779.00 View

Pros:

  • Super-fast focusing performance
  • Smaller, lighter and more affordable than rival telephoto primes
  • 11-blade diaphragm

Cons:

  • F5.6 maximum aperture can restrict low-light use

Aperture: f5.6 maximum

Optics: Advanced multi-coating technology to reduce flare and ghosting, ensuring high image clarity

Features: Exceptional telephoto reach with advanced optical design for wildlife and sports photography

Autofocus: High-speed and precise AF system, optimised for tracking fast-moving subjects

Build Quality: Rugged Sports-series construction with comprehensive weather sealing for durability in challenging environments


Available mounts: L-mount, Sony FE

One of Sigma’s fast and agile “Sports” lenses, the Sigma 500mm f5.6 AF DG DN OS I Sports is an impressive prime for photographers looking to capture challenging, fast-moving subjects. It’s a surprisingly compact lens for its type too, weighing in at 1,370g, and this combined with its effective optical stabilisation system makes for a lens that can easily be used for handheld shooting, even with its long focal length. The autofocus is blazingly fast thanks to the high-speed HLA motor, and you can use the focus limiter switch to narrow the focal distance for greater accuracy.

With an 11-bladed diaphragm, the lens produces great-looking bokeh in the defocused areas of images, and while the F5.6 aperture might sound restrictive in this regard, the long focal length means it’s still relatively straightforward to get a good separation of subject and background. The lens is also built for outdoor use, with dust- and splash-protection.

Best DSLR Lenses

Sigma arguably made its name with its amazing selection of affordable, high-quality DSLR lenses, and even though DSLRs aren’t the new hotness any more, you can still pick up loads of great Sigma lenses to complete your DSLR kit bag. Sigma still stocks plenty of lenses for Canon EF-mount, Nikon F-mount and its own proprietary Sigma SA-mount, which isn’t much-used these days, but dates back to the days of film and still exists on the second-hand market. 

Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

£699.00 View

Pros:

  • Useful all-purpose focal length
  • Hyper Sonic Motor autofocus is quick and quiet
  • Brilliant optical performance

Cons:

  • No weather sealing
  • Some vignetting, especially wide open

Aperture: f1.4 maximum

Optical Design: 13 elements in 11 groups for exceptional image quality and minimal aberrations

Features: Wide-angle focal length ideal for landscapes, portraits, and street photography

Autofocus: Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) for fast, smooth, and quiet focusing performance

Build Quality: Premium Art-series construction with durable materials and a sleek finish


Available mounts: Canon EF, Nikon F

This brilliant lens was something of a game-changer for Sigma. It flew off the shelves on its release, with DSLR photographers wowed by the pristine, pin-sharp results it delivered for a relatively modest price tag. It still delivers the goods today — if you’re looking for a good, all-purpose photography lens for your Canon or Nikon DSLR, nobody is going to argue with you if you pick up the Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG HSM Art.

Delivering beautiful, characterful images at the versatile focal length of 35mm, the lens is wonderfully made and feels premium in the hands. The autofocus is reliably quiet and fast — though if you need to, you can manually override with a simple twist of the manual focus ring. On the inside, the optical design controls well for distortion and aberrations, and even when used wide open, the lens performs really, really well and produces images that are crisp and punchy.

 

Sigma 60-600mm f4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sport Lens for Canon EF

£1,699.00 View

Pros:

  • Big, generous zoom range
  • Hyper Sonic Motor delivers high-speed autofocus
  • Durable build quality

Cons:

  • Relatively big and heavy

Aperture: f4.5-6.3 maximum

Optical Design: 25 elements in 19 groups for outstanding sharpness and minimal distortion across the zoom range

Features: Ultra-telephoto 10x zoom range for versatile shooting, from wildlife to sports photography

Autofocus: Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) for fast and precise focusing with subject-tracking capability

Build Quality: Rugged Sports-series construction with comprehensive weather sealing for use in challenging environments


Available mounts: Canon EF, Nikon F, Sigma SA

This big, beautiful telephoto zoom requires a strong arm to wield, weighing in at around 2.7kg. If you can hack a bit of weight however, you’ll find you’ve got yourself an absolutely superb all-purpose zoom to mount on your DSLR, delivering absolutely stunning results for sports and action shooting. In fact, this lens was so popular that Sigma produced an updated DG DN version for mirrorless systems, which is also worth considering. 

With more play at the wide-angle end than your traditional 150-600mm configuration, this is a highly versatile lens. The focusing is powered by a Hyper Sonic Motor that delivers impressive speed, with a full-time manual override option for those times you need to be more precise. The nine-bladed diaphragm ensures an attractive look to the bokeh in out-of-focus areas of images, and the external build quality is solid throughout. A brass bayonet mount provides impressive durability, and the lens also comes with a carbon fibre hood.

 

Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Nikon F

£1,249.00 View

Pros:

  • Stunning optical performance
  • Beautiful bokeh
  • F1.4 aperture

Cons

  • On the big and heavy side
  • No stabilisation

Aperture: f1.4 maximum

Optical Design: 17 elements in 12 groups for exceptional sharpness and beautiful background separation

Features: Portrait-optimised design with ultra-smooth bokeh and minimal aberrations

Autofocus: Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) for fast, accurate, and quiet focusing performance

Build Quality: Premium Art-series construction with weather sealing and a robust barrel for professional use


Available mounts: Canon EF, Nikon F, Sigma SA

This is quite a famous lens, once a standard-setter for sharpness and still a brilliant option for DSLR shooters. The Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art delivers simply sumptuous performance, especially when you open up that F1.4 aperture and embrace its character. The bokeh in images is simply dazzling, and its short-ish telephoto focal length makes it a good choice for portraiture. It’s also worth noting that the optical design minimises sagittal coma flare, which is great for photographing starry skies — though the long focal length may make it challenging to avoid star trails.

The beefy optical design incorporates 17 elements in 12 groups, including three FLD glass elements, two SLD glass elements and an aspherical lens element, effectively controlling distortions and aberrations to produce images of outstanding clarity. While it lacks the conveniences of more recent lenses, most notably built-in stabilisation, this lens delivers results that are a cut above the rest, and should merit serious consideration from pretty much any Canon or Nikon DSLR shooter. 


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FAQs

Are Sigma lenses compatible with my camera?

Sigma lenses are designed for a variety of mounts, including Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z, and more. Always check the mount type and compatibility details to ensure it works with your camera system.

Are Sigma lenses good for professional photography?

Sigma lenses are renowned for their exceptional optical performance, robust build quality, and advanced features, making them a great choice for both professionals and enthusiasts.

Do Sigma lenses have weather sealing?

Many Sigma lenses, particularly from their Art, Sports, and Contemporary lines, feature weather sealing to protect against dust and moisture, making them suitable for outdoor and challenging conditions.

How do Sigma lenses compare to first-party lenses?

Sigma lenses often match or exceed the optical performance of first-party lenses, offering innovative designs and competitive pricing, making them an excellent alternative.

Are Sigma lenses good for video?

Sigma lenses are equipped with features like smooth focus rings, quiet autofocus motors, and high optical quality, making them a popular choice for videographers.

How do we decide?


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