Congrats! I am very interested to hear how the AF performs on Pentax (DP Review suggests that AF works better on the Nikon version than the Canon).
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats on the acquisition, Rob! I will also be looking forward to > your impressions. > > For those looking for image samples (on the mounts made available > earlier) there are a couple of dedicated Groups on Flickr that have > about 7000 images between them (and also relevant discussions): > > Image Pools: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2236148@N24/ and > https://www.flickr.com/groups/sigma18-35mm/ > Discussions: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2236148@N24/discuss/ and > https://www.flickr.com/groups/sigma18-35mm/discuss/ > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow that is a biggie! >> Looking forward to your field test report. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> Well the now not so new Sigma Art series 18-35/1.8 lens is now finally >>> available in K-mount, I picked mine up today first shipment into my >>> local pushers this morning, I've played a little, it damn nice wide >>> open and its build quality is superb. It's a bit big though, only >>> slightly smaller than the DA*50-135 in stature so it has displaced my >>> Samyang 8/3.5 and DA 35/2.8 Macro from my go-to kit for the moment. >>> >>> I have three shows to shoot before Sunday so it will get a good >>> work-out in place of my Sigma 17-50/2.8, conditions permitting. I will >>> report back on performance, particularly AF speed and lock wide open. >>> >>> Size comparison: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ybuc4gc4b0bejkk/AACi53mrqBwt172NjDbv9t9_a >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >>> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >>> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > 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.
