Lots of new goodies from Sigma
Sigma has launched a bunch of new lenses, a new dslr and 2 updated DP series cameras.
Lenses
– 85 f/1.4 (Knew about this one a while back, it has to be great to offset the 2 Canon 85's)
– 70-200 f/2.8 OS
– 17-55 f/2.8 OS
– 8-16 f/4.5-5.6 (This could be a neat lens)
– 50-500 OS (Bigma needed an upgrade)
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I’ve found that it it’s surprisingly good for macro. For the price you can’t complain. It’s actually pretty good for a “kit” lens.
if you don’t want it, I’ll take if off your hands if it’s that big of a problem for you. :)
> A Canon 85mm 1.4L IS would be great.
… and please really sharp at f/1.4 without any distorsion.
We have zooms to get sharp pictures with distorsion at f/2.8 or f/4.
Yeah, but it rocks. Canon’s 85s are great.
It’s the 24/28/35/50 micromotor primes that are really showing their age, & the USM 50 could stand to be brought into the 21st century as well. Not to mention the fact that they have no EF-S primes other than the 60mm macro (which BTW is already very good & would be fantastic if they added the new hybrid macro IS to it. Maybe tomorrow?).
For the moment, Canon’s answer to this seems to be “get the EF-S 17-55. It’s optically excellent & covers all these focal lengths & wider @ f/2.8 and it’s got USM & IS”. Fair enough. But it’s expensive, big, & heavy.
I guess I just like prime lenses, & I think I’m not the only one…
Wow! Quite the announcement. Sigma comes out with guns blazing.
Any MTF data published?