Originally posted by Asahiflex Sample variation or different tastes?
I doubt it was sample variation, although it seems I have one of the better copies of FA*24 out there.
The Sigma was tad sharper, but colours were off by mile to my liking and contrast was low (-er when compared to the FA*)
Truth is, I did grow accustomed to the FA series colours. I did try all Pentax series and I haver to say the I liked the output of FA labeled lenses the best (hence my line up). M85 anf F50/1.7 would be tied second.
To the topic. Yes the Sigmna does seem to be a great lens but:
- on APSC it relates to roughly 125 f2 lens, good for long portrait lens but slightly odd ball IMO. It does make perfect sense on FF though
- the size of it, this is entirely down to personal choice but in my example, I rarely shoot longer than 50/55mm, 24-55 is my most favored range and to lug the brick of 85/1.4 around for the odd shot here or there is nonsense.
That's just my observations