Durable, lightweight, powerful. The Sigma 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN | Contemporary for Sony FE mount impresses with its incredibly compact design, a weight of only 450g and a constant f/2.8 speed. It is perfectly suited for architectural and street photographers who want to carry their equipment with them for several hours and still not compromise on quality.
Fast, silent autofocus
Whether shooting street photography, or video, focusing noise is always distracting. Here, the 16-28mm relies on a stepper motor, which makes the autofocus not only fast, but also silent. When using manual focus, you get a linear manual focus curve, which allows you to readjust the manual focus very smoothly and accurately.
Image quality that delights
As you would expect from Sigma, the 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN | Contemporary FE mount scores with clear, high-contrast images and unmatched sharpness. This is achieved through Sigma's Super Multi-Layer Coating (SML). The Lens is equipped with five FLD lenses and four aspheres, resulting in almost no chromatic aberrations. Particularly in the wide-angle range, sharpness that extends all the way to the corners of the image is especially important. Exactly this point is perfectly fulfilled by the Sigma 16-28mm f/2.8 due to the excellent image field curvature.
Bokeh & aperture of the Sigma 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN
The bokeh of the 16-28mm is circular and smooth throughout due to the 9 built-in aperture blades.
Simple and practical design
As a wide-angle zoom, the 16-28mm f/2.8 is particularly notable for its compact size (10cm in length) and light weight of just 450g. In addition to sealing against dust and splashing water, a solid brass bayonet also contributes to the Lens's durability. The selected materials ensure that this will not affect the 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN | Contemporary performance, even in the face of wildly fluctuating temperatures. Adding to the well-designed construction is the AF-MF switch, which allows you to switch between automatic and manual focusing at will without using the camera menu.
Other special features of the Sigma 16-28mm f/2.8
The 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN | Contemporary Sony E-Mount is completely dimensionally stable due to its internal zoom, which is especially handy when used with a gimbal, as the Lens remains balanced throughout. As you would expect from Sigma, this Lens features a brass bayonet.
What's behind the name?
Contemporary
Sigma's Contemporary product line offers high-performance all-around lenses for everyday use, as it combines high optical quality with compact design and light weight. The product line includes standard, telephoto, and zoom lenses that are suitable for a wide range of applications, from snapshots to landscape photography to travel photography.
DG
DG Lenses - SIGMA's DG lenses are designed for demanding use on digital cameras with sensors up to 24x36mm (colloquially known as full-frame). By using state-of-the-art coating processes, ghosting caused by reflections on the sensor surface is successfully eliminated, while at the same time achieving balanced colors and superior optical performance.
Since these Lenses also illuminate the analog film format 24x36mm, their use is also possible on some suitable analog cameras, although we ask you to consult us on a case-by-case basis.
DN
DN Lenses - High performance lenses designed exclusively for mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. The latest technology in lens development ensures high optical performance, compact design and quiet autofocus. Superior telecentricity ensures sharp, high-resolution image quality across the entire image plane.
IF
Internal Focusing (IF) - With internally focused Lenses, only one or more groups of lenses are moved inside the Lens for focusing. As with rear-focus lenses, this results in many advantages: Internal focusing provides faster and quieter focusing. With IF lenses, the build length of the Lens remains constant during focusing and the front lens does not rotate, allowing you to conveniently use polarizing filters and a tulip-shaped lens hood. Since the overall length of the Lens remains constant during focusing, there is no noticeable weight shift during focusing with this system. As a result, the Lens is well balanced at all times.
Other product features:
- Lens construction: 16 elements in 11 groups, with five FLD and four aspherical lenses
- Internal zoom
- Internal focusing
- Compatible with high-speed autofocus
- Stepper motor
- Front filter thread (Ø 72mm)
- Supports aberration correction
- Function only available in combination with supporting cameras. The possible corrections and auto correction may differ depending on the camera model.
When turning on/off the aberration correction in the camera menu, please set all correction options to "On" ("Auto").
- Supports DMF and AF+MF
- Super Multi-Layer Coating
- Focus mode switch
- Tulip-shaped lens hood (LH756-01)
- Dust and splash proof lens mount
- Switching between a linear and non-linear gear ratio of the focus ring (for L-mount only)
- Reflection and ghost minimizing design
- Nine rounded aperture blades
- High-precision and robust brass bayonet
- Handcrafted quality "Made in Japan"
- Every single lens passes through SIGMA's proprietary MTF measurement system
Technical Data:
The data below refers to the L-mount version.
Lens construction: 11 groups, 16 elements (five FLD and four aspherical lenses)｜Field angle: 107.0° - 75.4°｜Number of aperture blades: 9 (round aperture)｜Smallest aperture: F22｜Nearest focusing distance: 25cm｜Largest magnification: 1:5.6｜Filter diameter: Ø 72mm｜Dimensions (Maximum diameter × length): Ø 77.2mm × 100.6mm｜Weight: 450g
