Sigma S 70-200 mm f/2.8 DG DN OS review - Introduction

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Sigma S 70-200 mm f/2.8 DG DN OS

8 April 2024

Maciej Latałło

1. Introduction

Classic fast journalistic 24-70 mm and 70-200 mm zooms with the fixed f/2.8 aperture are like main pillars of every system. Practically every respectable optical producer tries to include such instruments in their line-up.

When it comes to Sigma they launched the Sigma A 24-70 mm f/2.8 DG DN model already in 2019, so at the time when this company just started to produce full frame Sony FE lenses,. Another journalistic lens, the Sigma A 14-24 mm f/2.8 DG DN, was shown the same year.

Sigma S 70-200 mm f/2.8 DG DN OS - Introduction

At that time it seemed that launching a 70-200 mm f/2.8 model was just a matter of several months, one year at most. Still, in case of such a lens Sigma asked us to wait as long as four years – the Sigma S 70-200 mm f/2.8 DG DN OS was officially shown only in November 2023.

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You have to admit our patience could wear thin; we hoped that, at least, the new lens would prove to be worth waiting for. In order to check that we decided to test its optical and mechanical properties. Courtesy of K-Consult, a Sigma products distributor for Poland, we got one specimen of this lens without any problems and we could take a closer look at it.

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