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Sigma 16mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary for Sony E review
The widest aperture on this shelf at F1.4 for 385 €, with a dust and splash-proof mount stated precisely as the mount — and five phrases of copy that answer none of the other seven lines this shelf compares.
The bottom line F1.4 at 16mm is a genuine specification and it is the only one this listing provides. The mount seal is worded with real precision, and then the page names architecture as a use while publishing no distortion statement, no thread, no close focus and no weight — one figure and five phrases for 385 €.
On the listing
Five phrases, no measurements. A high-speed wide-angle lens for mirrorless APS-C cameras; a light, compact body; a dust- and splash-water-protected connection; a use list naming nature and landscape, available light, architecture and interiors; and a quiet autofocus.
F1.4 is the reason this page exists
Two-thirds of a stop past anything else here, and two stops past the cheapest. At 16mm on APS-C that combination — wide framing and four times the light of the pancake — is what the fourth bullet means by available light. It is also the only figure on the page that is not in the product name.
The seal is at the mount, and only there
The third bullet claims a dust- and splash-protected connection. That is the bayonet ring, not the barrel. It is a narrower claim than it first reads as, and it is worth crediting the wording: the page says what it seals rather than implying more.
Four uses named, no measurement given
Nature and landscape, available light, architecture, interiors. Two of those four turn on how the lens draws a straight line, and the page never says. The hub above puts the question first for this shelf, and this listing is the one that leaves it open.
What a buyer still has to find out
No thread diameter. On a wide lens that is either a modest purchase or a bracket system, and the page does not say which.
No close-focus distance, no weight, no length, no angle of view. The lens is described as light and compact in two words, and measured in none.
Availability
Between 385 € and 435 € on the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was last checked.
The American and British Amazon stores carry it too, priced in local currency. Those amounts are deliberately absent from the range above, which reads euro stores only.
Everything in this section is the figure Keepa carried on the day of the last update to this page. Availability and prices shift without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 13 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
What it does well, and what it gives up
Strengths
F1.4, the widest maximum aperture of the five here by two-thirds of a stop
A dust and splash-proof mount, stated exactly as the mount rather than implied for the whole lens
A quiet autofocus named in the fifth bullet, on a shelf where two lenses focus only by hand
Compromises
Five phrases of copy, and not one of the seven measurable lines this shelf compares
Architecture and interiors named as uses, with no statement of how straight lines are rendered
No filter thread published, on a wide lens where that is the question that costs money
Specifications
Focal length
16mm, fixed, in the title. Between the 12mm of the Samyang and the 24mm of the Canon on this shelf, and no angle of view is published to say what that frames
Format
APS-C. The DC in the product name is Sigma’s designation, and the first two bullets confirm it: a bright wide-angle lens for mirrorless APS-C cameras
Maximum aperture
F1.4, in the title. It is the widest aperture in this entire lot — two-thirds of a stop past the Sony beside it, a full stop past the TTARTISAN, and two stops past the Canon at the bottom of the shelf. The fourth bullet names available light as a use, which is the aperture being put to work
Filter provision
Not published on the listing. No thread diameter appears and the page does not describe the front element, so the question the hub above says to settle before buying cannot be settled from this page
Distortion type
Not stated on the listing. Architecture and interior work are named as uses in the fourth bullet, which is exactly the application where the rendering of straight lines decides the result, and the page describes it nowhere
Minimum focus
Not published on the listing, and no magnification ratio
Sealing
At the mount, and the third bullet says precisely that: a dust and splash-water protected connection. It is a claim about the ring where lens meets camera, not about the rings, switches and barrel of the lens as a whole. Read as written it is narrower than the weather-protection claim two places down, and it is more precisely worded
Weight
Not published in grams, and no length. The second bullet calls the body light and compact, which is the description without the figure
Amazon reference
B077BWD2BB (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0085126402655
What people ask before they commit
How much light does F1.4 give over the rest of this shelf?
Two-thirds of a stop over the F1.8 lens beside it, a full stop over the F2 lenses, and two stops over the F2.8 pancake — meaning four times the light of the 149 € pancake at the same shutter speed. For an interior at dusk or a street at night that is the difference between a usable sensitivity setting and a noisy one. It is what the price is for.
Does a dust and splash-proof mount seal the whole lens?
No, and the third bullet is careful about this in a way that is easy to skim past. It claims protection at the connection — the ring where the lens meets the body, usually a gasket around the bayonet. Nothing is claimed for the focus ring, the switches or the front of the barrel. A lens sealed only at the mount keeps water out of the camera, not out of itself.
Why does the missing distortion statement matter here?
Because the fourth bullet names architecture and interior photography specifically. Those are the applications where a wall must look straight, and where a lens that bows lines at the edges either needs correcting in software or needs replacing. The hub above treats distortion type as a property to be described rather than a grade. This page describes it not at all.
EF-S mount · APS-C · 24mm · F2.8 · 52mm filter thread · angles of view 59°10 by 50°35 by 34°55 · minimum focus about 0.16 m · STM focusing, not compatible with an extender · no distortion type stated · no sealing claimed · no weight published
A 149 € pancake that publishes the two things this shelf most often leaves out — a 52mm filter thread and a minimum focus of about 0.16 m — and carries two catalogue fields that belong to a video camera.
Best for: An EF-S body that needs to become pocketable, where 24mm on APS-C frames much as the eye does and the thread stays cheap.
Sony E mount · APS-C · 12mm · F2.0, closing to F22 · 99.1 degree angle of view · 62mm filter thread · minimum focus 19 cm · 12 elements in 10 groups · UMC coating · weather protection claimed · 213 g · 59mm long · detachable hood supplied
The best-documented page of the five here: 213 g, 62mm of thread, 19 cm of close focus, 99.1 degrees, twelve elements in ten groups and a weather-protection claim, for 283 €.
Best for: Astrophotography and interiors on a Sony APS-C body, for someone who wants an ultra wide that autofocuses and whose filters cost what filters normally cost.
E mount · APS-C · 11mm · F1.8 held as a constant maximum · three ED and three aspherical elements · 7-blade circular aperture · two linear motors · hood supplied · no filter provision published · no distortion type stated · no minimum focus published · no sealing claimed · no weight published
The widest engraving on this shelf at 11mm with an F1.8 maximum, for 460 €, sold on six named elements and two focus motors — and publishing neither a thread, a close-focus distance, a weight nor a sealing claim.
Best for: Handheld vlogging and interiors on a Sony APS-C body, where 11mm at F1.8 covers the room and the arm holding the camera.
