IIRC the first version - which I have - is the best at the long end. It´s a good lens. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message ----- From: "wendy beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:47 PM Subject: Re: My long zoom expired. Help needed. Also WTB. >I used to own one of the Sigma 70-300mm f4.0-5.6 Apo Macro Super > lenses and it was pretty awful at the long end. > I think my copy was the Apo Macro Super II. There are newer and I > should imagine improved incarnations of it, so just be careful if > you're buying second hand. Make sure you're not geting one of the > older versions. > > Wendy > > On 11/22/06, Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Boris, >> >> I have a Sigma 70-300mm f4.0-5.6 Apo Macro Super and find it really >> useful. I've used it regularly now for about a year and have no >> complaints. As a macro it works better than I expected and if you want >> to chase butterflies around the garden it's ideal; giving half life size >> images at the Macro 300mm setting. If you do a search on the web you'll >> find a few informative reviews. Its a 35mm lens of course. I don't know >> anything about the DG version. The MTF looks good for 35mm and looks >> *really great* for the smaller sensor of the *ist D. There are several >> other versions of this lens that don't perform nearly as well. There is >> no chromatic aberration to speak of -- even in the corners. I haven't >> used it on a film camera, but would expect to find them. Maybe some of >> our other members have the same lens? The Apo Macro Super has a gold >> band around the front and is on page 8 of the Sigma lens catalogue. >> >> D >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
