• P-visie
    It is/ was a great lens, except for the removable foot of the tripod collar. Mine had to be repaired within a year. The same intern who...
  • ISv
    ISv replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Thanks! The water behind is doing nice background..
  • neuroanatomist
    Agreed. IMO, the most likely reason isn’t capacity, either (they could make fewer lenses than demand and charge more for them because of...
  • P-visie
    I reacted to your “the only additional investment” which is (IMO) not correct. I agree with you that those costs are not the reason that...
  • neuroanatomist
    Canon has sold more cameras than Sony and far more cameras than the L-mount alliance for many years. The cumulative result of that is...
  • roby17269
    Sigma have been selling lenses for multiple mounts for most if not all of their existence. I assume they are efficient at doing that by...
  • D
    I often bought new Leica gear in the -distant- past. They were expensive, but still not in an excessive way. And quality, apart from the...
  • P-visie
    Those are not all additional costs: production and testing of the RF mount lenses must be arranged, packaging, marketing, add SKU to...
  • A
    This rebadging of lenses was quite common with lenses from the 70s to the early 90s. The other day I was researching a somewhat obscure...
  • S
    How can any of us possibly know? I don't see how it would make a difference, other companies do it don't they? Or at least people claim...
  • roby17269
    But a lot of the expenses to develop those lenses have been already incurred into by Sigma. The only additional investment would be to...
  • Click
    Click replied to the thread Show your Bird Portraits.
    Great shots, ISv. I really like the second one.
  • AlanF
    You have mentioned the EF 400/4.5 a couple of times. I got intrigued a few months ago when one was on sale from WEX. It was priced too...
  • AlanF
    There are those who use Leica for their photographic pluses but there those, as you describe, who display them as "Positional Goods""...
  • justaCanonuser
    I also had the opportunity to test this massive lens (I think it was nicknamed "Sigmonster") with a Canon DSLR attached (forgot which...
  • Celts88
    Looooove that photo of the Mallard (y) Was sitting on the beach one day and there was these gulls beside us. Suddenly a couple of them...
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  • justaCanonuser
    Leica's M series cameras at least are mainly a luxury gadget for rich people, so Leica may have more Louis Vuitton bag like profit...
  • justaCanonuser
    Alan, I like the red kite in particular - and it looks like the cloudy overcast weather in which I catched one about a week ago, but not...
  • justaCanonuser
    4.5 kg was always to heavy for me, because I prefer to shoot birds hand-held. I found out, that a 3 kg lens for me personally sets the...
  • EricN
    It's a very good point. One could say, even now, they keep "the classic Leica design."
  • DocInfoSci
    Ooookkkaaayyyy. I seem to need to discuss with my friends how they seriously need to step up their hobby game. 😏
  • DocInfoSci
    Haha - but the image quality is not the point of the big green. It’s the Hulk, and no one watched the Hulk for the outstanding special...
  • GMCPhotographics
    I played with one of these at “focus” at the Birmingham NEC a few years back on the Sigma stand. It was mounted on a massive fixed to...
  • ISv
    ISv replied to the thread Small Mammals.
    Not that big actually: I think it's 13-15 cm in length. I can't count the ## of the legs between the stones but it's probably...
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