Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
Could be I can get one really cheap, anybody have first-hand experience with it and maybe even mounting Pentax lenses on it? The list of supported lenses on the Sigma web is extremely small. kris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread David J Brooks
I have one, bought it for the Sigma 300 f4. It does not do AF although it will on occasion. I have had little success in mounting the few Pentax lenses i have but works well on the above mentioned Sigma Dave On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Krisjanis Linkevics

Re: Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Krisjanis Linkevics wrote: Could be I can get one really cheap, anybody have first-hand experience with it and maybe even mounting Pentax lenses on it? The list of supported lenses on the Sigma web is extremely small. I have one. It seems to be very good quality for a teleconverter. I got

Re: Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:25:15AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: Krisjanis Linkevics wrote: Could be I can get one really cheap, anybody have first-hand experience with it and maybe even mounting Pentax lenses on it? The list of supported lenses on the Sigma web is extremely small. I have

RE: Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread John Sessoms
From: Krisjanis Linkevics Could be I can get one really cheap, anybody have first-hand experience with it and maybe even mounting Pentax lenses on it? The list of supported lenses on the Sigma web is extremely small. kris I have an older Sigma 1.4 EX (pre-DG) and it works well with my Sigma

RE: Any experience with the Sigma 1.4 EX DG converter?

2012-12-05 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
If the price is really cheap, it's probably worth it. Thanks for the input, David, Mark, John Francis and John Sessoms. I will try to get my hands on it, seeing as I have one lens on the supported list and it could also potentially work on others. The price is equivalent to ~70$ LNIB. kris --