Mark Roberts wrote: > Last week Sigma finally got some 180mm f/3.5 lenses in Pentax mount and > yesterday mine arrived. First impressions: Very well built and *very* > fun to use! I hope to try my hand at some Mark Cassino-style insect > macros before too long. > > In the meantime, I've been shooting things around the house, just > playing around and discovering what this lens can do. Here's a shot of a > dried rose in our living room: > http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d801410.htm > > And here's a 100% magnification crop: > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/rose2.jpg > > >
180 macros are awesome bug lenses, really great working distance narrow field of view and 1:1 reproduction. I've been lusting after the darkside 180 3.5 L for a while now... The sigma looks pretty damn good too. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- 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.
