The problem with their lenses is really build quality. They have really good optics, no doubt about that (especially for the cost), but if you look at lensrentals repair list they are all at the top. If they started making nice metal bodied primes, a lot more people would take them more seriously. Then again their prices would go up as well, so I'm all for the cheap plastic fantastics myself. The 24 they make is kind of interesting, but I really want their 8mm fisheye which is pretty superb. This 10 is very intriguing as well. I can't wait to see some shots with it from a K-3. If they can keep distortion low and give good edge to edge sharpness at middle fstops, they will have a real winner.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 02:24:16AM +1100, Rob Studdert wrote: >> The edges aren't that bad on the Sigma 10-20/3.5, they are better than >> the Sigma 14/2.8 and the old Pentax A15/3.5. At 10mm wide open it's a >> soft right at the extremes but generally if it needs to be used wide >> open then light is poor anyhow and the image doesn't suffer for the >> lack of edge sharpness. >> >> On 8 December 2013 01:14, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm not a big fan of the sigma WA zooms. The edges on the 10-20 aren't >> > great IMO. >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> It looks mildly interesting, unless you have a Sigma 10-20/3.5 which >> >> is no optical slouch, is less than a stop slower, provides a more >> >> versatile focal length range, has HSM focus which allows full manual >> >> override and is cheaper. > > I've found that the 2/3 stop between f/1.4 and f/1.7 can make a big > difference, and that shooting indoors with my 8/3.5 I tend to get a > lot of that "artsy subject motion blur". I'll be very interested in > seeing how this lens works. > > If Samyang ever starts putting their optics in lenses with autofocus, > Tamron and Sigma will be in serious trouble. Then again, if they start > doing that, their lenses won't be nearly so inexpensive. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
