What killed the Sigma 30/1.4 for me was the better noise processing in Lightroom 3. I'd rather shoot at high ISO with the sweeter, lighter Pentax primes and just live-with/fix-up the noise. -T
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The same experience with the Sigma 30/1.4. I bought it to shoot indoors at > wide open aperture. Not very good. Much better outdoors at 5.6. > Unfortunately, it's big and heavy, and Pentax makes a 31 that is smaller and > better wide open. > > Right now, the 30/1.4 is a body cap for my K100. > > Jeffery > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> When I bought my sigma 20/1.8, the intention was to use it for indoor, low >> light, dance photography. For various reasons, mostly involving manual >> focus, it hasn't proven to be as good for that as I had hoped. On the other >> hand, I'm finding it very handy as a wide angle macro lens. For example, a >> lot of the time that I'm shooting mushrooms, to get the angle I want, I need >> to be very close to the subject because roots of the stump, or the ground, >> is in the way if I'm trying to use a longer lens. >> >> Does anybody else have lenses that they bought for one use, that they later >> found are much better for something else entirely? >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
