On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Christian <christ...@skofteland.net> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> Saw an ad on CL for a Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC SLD ELD Aspherical >>> Macro Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras (581109) >>> >>> I don't remember seeing much mention of this lens in the "normal >>> zoom" discusions. What's it like? It seems reasonably fast, at least >>> faster than my 18-250. >> >> If it's like most Sigma lenses, it would make me barf. >> I'm sorry, did I just use my outside voice? ;-0 > > HA! I appreciate your feelings for Sigma which you've expressed here quite > frequently. I've only owned one Sigma lens: the 300/4 AF, blah, blah, blah > macro and it was actually a fan-bloody-tastic lens. Except for its lack of > IS I'd say it was pretty close to my Canon 300/4 IS. > > But my experience may be isolated since the lens I mentioned is not in > production any more and has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this > thread. >
I've owned several Sigma's. The EX 10-20 was superb. The EX 50/2.8 Macro was quite good. The 24/2.8 Super-Wide II and 170-500 APO were decent. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
