Our Overall Score:
9.3/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £324
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sigma or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro
SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro scores 8.2/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro scores 9.8/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro actually comes in below average at £324.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 116 were more expensive and 36 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro.
Prices of products from Sigma
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sigma. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sigma, which was £471.00 of the 18 products we found. So SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sigma was £189.00 with the most expensive coming in at £999.00.
Prices of products from Sigma and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sigma that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £471.00, making SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro at £324 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £999.00 with the lowest priced item being £189.00. In total there were 10 items that were more expensive and 7 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro
SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro is.
Overall score
SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro scores 9.3/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sigma so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SIGMA 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Wide-angle Zoom Lens with Macro
- Brand: Sigma
- Model Number: f/2.84
- Ideal for portraitureCompatible with Canon EF-S mountAperture range: f/2.8 – f/22Image stabilisationSilent focus
- EAN: 85126884543
- Description: Conveniently compact and versatile, the Sigma 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Standard Zoom Lens with Macro is ideal for the travelling photographer. Versatile shooting With a wide zoom range, the high performance 17-70 mm offers versatile shooting options and is ideal for travel, landscape, portraiture and sports. Compact and lightweight, this wide-angle zoom matches perfectly with the smaller bodies of Canon APS-C DSLRs. A low aperture of f/2.8 makes the 17-70 mm suitable for shooting subjects at extremely close range and in low light conditions. With seven rounded blades making up the diaphragm you can get creative by creating a smooth bokeh in the background. Get closer to your subject A dedicated macro function and minimum focusing distance of 22 cm makes the 17-70 mm ideal for close-up photography. A Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM) ensures quiet focusing, ideal when capturing small insects. For sharp, blur-free images, the 17-70 mm incorporates Sigma’s Optical Stabiliser (OS) which offers effective correction of approximately 4 stops to counter camera shake even during macro photography. Superior quality The 17-70 mm incorporates two “F” Low Dispersion glass elements to eliminate chromatic aberration of magnification and axial chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the entire zoom range. Finished with a Super Multi-Layer Coating to reduce flare and ghosting, the 17-70 mm delivers sharp and high contrast results even in backlit conditions. The included tulip shaped lens hood also helps assist with avoiding flare. Sigma USB Dock compatible The 17-70 mm is compatible with the Sigma USB Dock (sold separately), which enables you to update the lens firmware and adjust parameters such as focus. The compact and functional Sigma 17-70 mm f/2.8-4 DC HSM OS Standard Zoom Lens with Macro offers great versatility when shooting.
- Product ID: 3224698999
