The Sigma 19mm & 30mm f/2.8 DN Art lens for Sony E mount are just $179 each with a 2 year Australian warranty.
Some other great Sigma lens deals are:
Sigma 18-250mm Macro HSM lens for Canon, Nikon & Pentax is just $379 with a 5 year Australian warranty.
Sigma 24-105mm f/4 OS HSM Art lens for Canon & Nikon is just $899 with a 2 year Australian warranty.
Check out our Boxing Day Sale for loads of great deals on other brands as well
$179 for each lens. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but the closest I have found is $190 from DCW.
Can normally be bought for about 200-220. I have the m43 mount
It's a great budget lens. Finding stock isn't always easy since margins aren't huge
perfect for a6000
how's this compare to the Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN which is supposedly the best lens for the Sony a6000??
This deal is like half the price….is it at least half as good?
Huge difference between f/1.4 and f/2.8. You have to decide what you actually want first.
I'd go 1.4 any day.
thanks mate, but I'm just starting out (trying to buy my first prime lens)…I've been one of those noobs that have only used zoom lens…and have never taken the lens off the camera…
These would be good to check out primes for a good price. I've heard they're quality and the aperture is faster than your normal kit zooms.
thanks went and bought the above lens.
I think the 2.8 is amazing… It's still incredibly sharp and can do a great portrait. Here is a photo from it:
looks good but the bokeh seems a bit lacking…did u reduce the aperture?
ILCE-6000, 1/160 sec. f/2.8, 30 mm, ISO 100
@kaBargain: probably cos I'm a noob…but was expecting more bokeh at 2.8, maybe I'm comparing it agains the sigma 30mm 1.4…
@homersyd: the focal length (30mm) will also have an effect on bokeh, along with the aperture (which everyone associates out of focus blur with), and focal distance (how far away the subject is to the camera).
Have a play with the hyperfocal calculator, it might help you get a feel for the relationship. This one will let you play with all three of the variables (aperture, focal length, focal distance)
Nice Sigma lenses, but not much discount as previously mentioned.
Sadly, on the crop sensors like APS-C, 19mm becomes 28mm and on m4/3 - 38mm, so not really a wide angle lens (horizontal fov 35mm=87°, APS-C=64°, m4/3=50°)
Wish you had such a discount on Sony 10-18 lens…
Have to sell my 28-70 FE lens that I use on A6000 before I buy more lenses.
For your hard earned money's sake, AVOID! This retailer has very bad name in the field.
You'd better check the reviews of this retailer on www.productreview.com.au before making any purchase.
Since this retailer has the history of selling grey import stock, you'd better contact the manufacturers to see if this retailer is the authorized retailer for the products you are after.
Good luck.
We are an Authorised retailer for Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus & many many other brands.
We only source our stock from authorised Australian distributors.
We also seem to have a pretty average name in our field according to productreview.com.au:
You can see our reviews here - 2.8 average score from 135 reviews
You can see DigiDirect reviews here - 2.3 average score from 99 reviews
You can see Digital Camera Warehouse reviews here - 3.1 average score from 76 reviews
You can see Georges reviews here - 3.2 average score from 13 reviews
You can see Ted's reviews here - 2.7 average score from 129 reviews
For your hard earned money's sake, AVOID! This retailer has very bad name in the field.
I personally avoid them like the plague myself, based on my past experience with their customer service. I'd happily pay a higher price than to deal them.
Not very many discounts. Just inflated RRPs then "discounted"
In some cases, they're not even discounted
DCC RRP $1200, down to $950
Official Pentax store RRP $750
Neg for misleading RRPs
Our price is in line with everyone else for your example according to shopbot
Unfortunately CR Kennedy have a habit of listing products on their sites for cheaper than the wholesale cost to their retailers.
Our listed RRP prices are sourced directly form the Australian distributors price list.
I heard this a few times. If this is true, why any retailers bother to sell anything distributed by CR Kennedy anymore?
Because we would have nothing left to sell if we don't deal with them.
They distribute:
Pentax/Ricoh, Sigma, DJI, Barber Shop, BlackRapid, Eye-Fi, F-Stop, Gary Fong, Hasselblad, Hoya, HPRC, ilford, Joby, Kenko, Lensbaby, LensPen, Lomo, Lowepro, Metz, Bowens, Slik, Tokina, Vanguard & Carl Zeiss
Oh wow, lucky they don't sell all these stuff on their site. Sounds like this is biting the hands feeding them…
I recently found about this strange behaviour when looking to purchase Ricoh GR and was surprised that being the official distributor their price is the cheapest AU wide.
The 30mm is a very nice sharp portrait or street photography lens. Don't expect much/any Bokeh at this aperture/focal length combo.
There is no optical image stabilisation on this lens, so not great for hand held video. That said if you want a lens that's dramatically sharper than your 16-50 kit lens , this is a good option.
For those looking for budget Bokeh, the Sony 50mm 1.8 will give you what you're looking for more….. You can pick these up on eBay for under $300. Amazing Lens for the price.
I have both the 30 and 60mm in Sony e-mount. Very nice and sharp, I paid $155 from digidirect a year or so ago.
Inflated RRPs. Neg from me.
As stated above:
"Our listed RRP prices are sourced directly form the Australian distributors price list."
We don't make up RRP prices - we leave that to the distributors.
I can't help chuckling at the "bokeh monsters" on here. A nice blurry background can be good in a 1 person portrait - however it neither starts nor finishes with aperture. Indeed, if you look at a lot of working pros, esp event photogs, you might be surprised to discover what apertures they use.
Blurry backgrounds can be achieved through:
1. Focal length
2. Distance of background to subject.
3. Background subject matter
4. Light falling on background.
And more. A blurry background won't save a crappy photo - consider aperture as part of your overall framing and composition, not the be all and end all. I sometimes wish people spent a bit more time thinking about composition and framing than on gear - myself included!
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These are perfectly good lenses that smoke most if not all of the branded competitors in the same price bracket - regardless of f-stop (Sony themselves don't offer anything wider at these focal lengths). If 2.8 isn't wide enough for you and you use a full frame camera, you must love taking photos with only 1 eyelid in focus. Even on APSC, the DOF will be plenty shallow with decent framing.
Where is the deal? Are the two of them for that price it each?