Boris, Here's a shot taken with the Apo Macro Super at 300mm -- macro setting. If you'd like to see the original let me know:
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/hold/2886s.jpg I also set up a gallery of winter shots around the property -- all made with this lens. http://picasaweb.google.com/don.donwilliams/WinterExperimental There are pictures taken at all lengths from 70 to 300. The lens is engraved "APO Macro Super" there is no II and the ring around the barrel end is Gold. D Raimo K wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
