MatH
09-15-2005, 08:04 AM
Bought this lens second hand. When I first took it in hands it felt very clumsy. The zoom ring is hard to operate (far from smoothnes of Sigma 18-50 DC EX f2.8) meaning that if you squezze it too much it wouldn't move, but if you hold it right it moves easely. One thing I don't like about this lens is that the front lens rotates when focusing so you can't use polarizer on it :mad:
On the other hand it produces quite consumable images that I'm pleased with and I use it more than Sigma 18-50 f2.8 DC EX.
Judge for your self.
All images are 25% resized followed by a 100% crop.
The firs macro I took:
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bix.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bil.jpg
Eagles (300mm):
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bih.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bie.jpg
Macro of a chicken:
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bij.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bi4.jpg
Storm breaking:
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/145/sonceoblaki3resize0cg.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/349/sonceoblaki3crop3fx.jpg
On the other hand it produces quite consumable images that I'm pleased with and I use it more than Sigma 18-50 f2.8 DC EX.
Judge for your self.
All images are 25% resized followed by a 100% crop.
The firs macro I took:
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bix.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bil.jpg
Eagles (300mm):
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bih.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bie.jpg
Macro of a chicken:
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bij.jpg
http://images.fotopic.net/y91bi4.jpg
Storm breaking:
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/145/sonceoblaki3resize0cg.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/349/sonceoblaki3crop3fx.jpg