Forum: Lens Clubs
08-31-2010, 02:04 PM
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Without the Sigma 10-20mm I would rarely get a full double rainbow. ;) |
Forum: Lens Clubs
02-24-2010, 01:03 PM
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I am still hesitant to say that proper lighting might still cause you problems but I haven't tried it myself. Maybe someone who has will provide you a better answer.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-24-2010, 12:51 PM
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I am just thinking of moving to shooting people but I am guessing it would be no where near fast enough for wedding shots and then you would be right in their face trying to shoot them and I am thinking that would make it tougher to get a more relaxed expression from them.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-23-2010, 01:51 AM
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Lightning is my specialty, LOL Of all of us I think I have that market cornered in numbers at the least :D.
This lens can get it but its not a very good capture (too dark) and to even get that shot it must be leaving the clouds pretty much over your head. |
Forum: Lens Clubs
02-23-2010, 12:11 AM
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Yes, I am a bit different than many of the top name chasers you would be familiar with though as I will focus more on storm structure than getting a tornado shot and I am more of a local area chaser than those who will travel great distances for the capture.
Reed Timmer (Storm Chasers) is more of an adrenaline junkie where Sean Casey (Storm Chasers) is in it for the film making.. Tim Samaras (Storm Chasers) and Josh Wurman (Storm Chasers) are more into the scientific aspects.
Myself, Mike Hollingshead and Bill Doms (Twister Sisters), Dick McGowan and a few others enjoy other aspects of photography during the off season though like Atmospheric Optics, Eagles and such.
Use any one of those links I posted to find some other fine examples of what the 10-20mm might have to offer you even though I haven't been able to convince them my Pentax is better than their canikons... LOL.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-22-2010, 02:01 PM
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My Turn :)
First of all I must throw out the negative. QC at Sigma seems to be lacking badly at times regarding their lenses. One of my concerns at the time of purchase was all the negative posts about poor lenses which included softness on certain edges and overall lack of sharpness. I went ahead and ordered one through Amazon and when it arrived it was missing the card required for the 3 year extended warranty. Amazon rather than shipping only a replacement card sent me a replacement lens which allowed me to try them side by side for a few days. I ended up keeping my first lens and sent the replacement back without the card.
Lens one was sharper all the way around while it seemed to lack a bit in the actual color representation that lens 2 had. But as you can see lens 2 was a return item. I reproduced this on all of the many shots I took. Lens 1: Lens 2:
That out of the way I must say that for the money (if you get a good copy) you cannot beat this lens for Pentax.
The wide angle is needed to capture Atmospheric Optics in their full glory as an 18mm can't reach it all. This unheard of event (in KS) last spring was captured by many, but I have the only completely captured version I know of because I had the 10-20mm with me that day. That moon halo that rarely fits in an 18mm: For weather photography you cannot beat getting it all (or much more of it) in the shot. And just all around shooting: |