Old wide lens Super-Wide II 24 F2.8
A review and Photo example of Sigma Super Wide II 24mm with SIGMA SD14.
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- Photo with SIGMA SD14
Review
1．Overview
The SIGMA Super-Wide II 24mm F2.8 is an autofocus (AF) wide-angle lens that Sigma released during the film camera era.
There is no official information on this lens from Sigma, but there is a fair amount of information on the web, and you can see the specs in some detail on overseas sites. To summarize the information there, the 24mm series lenses are based on MF lenses from 1986, and the AF lens equivalent to this lens was released in 1988.
The exterior is made of plastic, weighs only 230g, and looks very cheap. It doesn’t have many lens elements, with 8 elements in 7 groups, and it didn’t use aspherical lenses due to the era. The minimum shooting distance is 0.18m, which means you can get closer than the successor 24mm F1.8, which boasts wide macro.
2．Usage
This Super Wide 2 24mm was on the junk shelf at a used camera store.
It’s rare to see such an old lens with a Sigma SA mount, and the price was reasonable for a junk item, so I bought it because the only thing I noticed was that the exterior was sticky.
It’s likely that this is a problem with the lens itself, but the one-sided blur and the strange light that appears when backlit seem to be a design problem or the lens is deteriorating.
When shooting with white balance auto, there’s a good chance that it will show a yellowish, nostalgic color. Since it’s a digital camera, you can change the color by adjusting the white balance on a PC, but I think it’s fun to see these colors come out without adjustment as a lens flavor.
My experience using it is that it’s a lens for use with color negatives from the film era, and not a lens that you would want to use in the digital age.
The Sigma SD9 I bought at the same time had a broken FOVEON sensor or peripheral circuit, and I couldn’t record images properly, so the price was high for two pieces of junk.
3．Summary
This wide-angle lens was designed in the 1980s and has a simple lens configuration consisting of only spherical lenses, so even when used with the Sigma SD14, an APS-C size sensor camera that crops the outside of the 35mm format, distortion is noticeable and the images it produces are not sharp enough for use with digital cameras.
Specification and Series lens.
Since this lens, Sigma has released 24mm focal length lenses, including the 24mm/F1.8 and Art 24mm/F1.4 for SLR cameras, and the 24mm/F1.4, 24mm/F3.5, and 24mm/F2 for mirrorless cameras.
The 24mm F3.5 DG DN for mirrorless cameras has a lens length of 50mm, almost the same as this lens. I think a prime lens with this level of compactness is preferable in terms of portability.
Among Sigma’s prime lenses, the 24mm focal length is one of the most varied lenses, along with the 35mm focal length.
| Items | 24mm-SW-II | 24mm-F1.8 | 24mm-F1.4 DG HSM | 24mm-F1.4 DG DN |
| Focal length(mm) | 24 | ← | ← | ← |
| Max aperture | 2.8 | 1.8 | 1.4 | ← |
| Min aperture | 22 | 22 | 16 | ← |
| Leaf blade | 6 | 9 | ← | 11 |
| Lens Construction | 8elements in 7groups | 10elements in 9groups | 15elements in 11groups | 17elements in 14groups |
| Min distance(m) | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.25 | ← |
| Lens length(mm) | 46(SA) | 83.6 | 85 | 75.7 |
| Max diameter(mm) | 72 | 82.5 | 90.2 | 95.5 |
| Filter Size(mm) | 52 | 77 | 77 | 72 |
| Weight(g) | 230 | 485 | 665 | 520 |
| Release date | 1988 | 2001.1 | 2019.9 | 2022. |
| Price(Yen/No-tax) | ? | 60,000- | 80,000- (SIGMA Online) | 100,000- (SIGMA Online) |
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- 2024.8.23
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