Originally posted by Edgar_in_Indy veezchick: I hope you can update this thread and let us know what lenses you ended up buying, and how you liked them.
You bet! I went with:
•Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM
•Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 IF EX DG HSM
•Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG APO Macro HSM II (or Sigma 70-200mm 1:2.8 EX DG OS HSM)
I love ALL of them for all the right reasons. I do mostly portraiture, street/urban, sports & nature and use all these for all genres. The IQ is amazing. Only complaint; some fringing on the 10-20 wide open on high contrast elements in a scene, but I'm able to mitigate that at capture or mend in post.
The bokeh on the 70-200 is absolutely gorgeous. Very soft & creamy. Stunning.
Crazy fast focus on all. Did have to adjust F/B focus on all - no biggie - but very accurate at F/B adjustment.
Very pleased with these lenses.
Thanks EVERYONE for such awesome, honest and intelligent feedback. I considered everyone's input. I held off buying the prime as suggested. But I'm just not a fan of Tamron or I would've considered them more (I've had a couple Tamron lenses and just hated everything about them - it's a personal thing, I know) so Tams were never in the running.
See some of my images made with these lenses in my gallery at
Kazey Bunch- Table For Tutu
- 4th Step
- The Miller Girls
- Child's Eyes
- Funk-tional Infrastructure
- Graffiti Tangle
- And ALL the mountain bike images (checkout the night shots toward the end of the race image files - those are my faves)
Cheers!