Image quality is very good and the 3.5-stop optical image stabilizer is a bonus for handheld shooting. It’s arguably less convenient when shooting movies but enables greater precision when making adjustments for stills.
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Unlike a number of retractable standard zooms from competing camera manufacturers, the EF-M 15-45mm has a manual rather than motorized zoom ring. However, telephoto reach isn’t quite as generous as in the original 18-55mm zoom.
That’s because the ‘effective’ focal length at short end of the zoom range shrinks to 24mm rather than 29mm, thanks to the 1.6x crop factor. With a clever retractable design, it’s both smaller and lighter than the original lens, and has the bonus of a significantly greater maximum viewing angle. It replaces Canon’s older EF-M 18-55mm as the standard zoom of choice. Typical of Canon’s EF-M lenses, this one is available in black (or dark grey, to be exact) but you can also buy it in silver. Read more: The Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN | C review (opens in new tab).Typical of ‘fast’ f/1.4 lenses, there’s no optical image stabilizer but it’s a superb wide-angle prime that’s tremendous value at the price, and arguably the best lens you can buy for your EOS M system. The complex optical path includes three top-grade FLD (‘Fluorite’ Low Dispersion), two SLD (Special Low Dispersion) and two glass moulded aspherical elements, all of which work together to deliver sumptuous image quality.
Build quality is very good indeed, with a sturdy metal mounting plate and smooth-action focus ring, electronically coupled to a fast and near-silent stepping motor autofocus system. However, when we reviewed the Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN | C, we were blown away by the quality inside and out. Even so, considering its combination of a 16mm focal length (25.6mm ‘effective’ in full-frame terms) and a fast f/1.4 aperture rating, it’s still remarkably small and light, typical of Sigma’s ‘Contemporary’ line-up of lenses. Compared to most own-brand Canon EF-M lenses, this Sigma is comparatively weighty at 405g.
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