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Please help me choose lenses for my SLR
Susie, you might try the news group rec.photo.help There is a
lengthy thread there on Sigma lenses. Dick |
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Please help me choose lenses for my SLR
Susie
My error. I should have said rec.photo.misc. That is where the Sigma lens thread is. Dick |
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mike wheeELer wrote:
I'm probably not quailfied to post in this group either according to that other person's opinion. But I don't care. Everyone's qualified to post in this group as long as it is on topic. However, I have a interest in Sigma lenses even though I don't have one of their cameras. There are few Sigma lenses worth owning. I plan on going digital and was thinking of buying a teleconverter, say, a 1.4, 1.7, or 2.0 so that I could slap it on the back of a lens to see how it would do when I moved the lens over to a digital camera. That would depend on the camera you're aiming at. More likely crop would around 1.3 to 1.5 depending on what body you do buy. I am thinking about the Sigma 24 to 135 f 2.8-4.5 aspheric IF lens. This wouuld be intened mostly for portrait purposes. Sigma AF 2.8-4.5 24-135mm 2.88 (2) = average This is the average of two tests by unnamed magazines as complied by photozone.de eg, not a great lens. I think it will act like what Suzie has. Are there some opinions about this approach? For portraits a good, ordinary prime in the 85 to 100mm range would be more appropriate to avoid distortion and allow for shallower DOF (larger aperture), not to mention a sharper look than the zoom will deliver. In your case, assuming a digital upgrade, 100, 135 or 180mm. (just divide by the crop factor of the digital you have in mind for the 35mm equivalent). What camera body do you have? That might point to a variety of used OEM lenses that would be better than any Sigma. Cheers, Alan. -- --e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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mike wheeELer wrote:
I unloaded my rather old 35mm manual equipment and my 120 outfit and so I have the fortunate position of being able to pick the lens first with an eye on which digital body I might want to get in the future. I am leaning towards Pentax but I lean in different directions on different days. So I plan on getting a AF body to match the lens mount and pick the lens first. I have had a Kalimar which was kind of fuzzy. It was 60 to 300 mm and the upper end was no good. So... which oem lens would you have in mind? I still want zoom. I used my fixed on my medium format for far too long when I really liked the "fuzzy" zoom under most of the shooting I did, simply because it was a zoom. Your combined objective of 'portrait', zoom and eventual upgrade to digital make it an "all compromise" kind of choice. Given your goal of digital , if I were in your shoes I'd go Canon. They are the leader of the pack in digital SLR's and have an exemplary lens lineup. If it must be a zoom for portraits that will upgrade to digital, then a 70|80-200 f/2.8 would be a better choice as the larger aperture and better optics would be a benefit for that use. This is a pricey way to go. Others may have less costly ways to suggest. For myself, once I xition to digital, my 80-200 f/2.8 will become my 'portrait' lens (etc.) which with the digital crop factor (exact factor not known yet) should bring it into the portrait range ... until I can afford the 135mm f/2.8 STF... Good luck. -- --e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Please help me choose lenses for my SLR (oops)
Alan Browne wrote:
mike wheeELer wrote: I unloaded my rather old 35mm manual equipment and my 120 outfit and so I have the fortunate position of being able to pick the lens first with an eye on which digital body I might want to get in the future. I am leaning towards Pentax but I lean in different directions on different days. So I plan on getting a AF body to match the lens mount and pick the lens first. I have had a Kalimar which was kind of fuzzy. It was 60 to 300 mm and the upper end was no good. So... which oem lens would you have in mind? I still want zoom. I used my fixed on my medium format for far too long when I really liked the "fuzzy" zoom under most of the shooting I did, simply because it was a zoom. Your combined objective of 'portrait', zoom and eventual upgrade to digital make it an "all compromise" kind of choice. Given your goal of digital , if I were in your shoes I'd go Canon. They are the leader of the pack in digital SLR's and have an exemplary lens lineup. If it must be a zoom for portraits that will upgrade to digital, then a 70|80-200 f/2.8 would be a better choice as the larger aperture and better optics would be a benefit for that use. This is a pricey way to go. Others may have less costly ways to suggest. Apologies, obviously I got my crop factor backwards above. A 28-70|80 f/2.8 zoom could do the job as a 'portrait' lens ... if a zoom it must be. But consider that at a 1.5 cropping, the humble 50mm f/1.8 lens will turn into a 75mm equivalent with lots of DOF available. For less than $100 you get a pretty good digital portait lens. Cheers, Alan. -- --e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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