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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-04-2010, 08:58 AM
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I haven't been back here since ... I can't remember when. I looked back the last few pages and I'm floored. I'd like to thank everyone for not posting anything but exceptional photos in this thread and convincing me this lens belongs in my collection. I thought I'd made-up my mind my next and only purchases were going to be a K-5 and Sigma 70-200/2.8 HSM II (order yet to be determined); but seems I can't stop there.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-04-2008, 09:47 PM
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Dave wrote "but as a macro it lacks an apeture ring, which makes it useless off camera. You can't use it on a bellows or reversed. ". Perhaps you should try to explain to us how you "use the dial to adjust apertures" when used in the manner Dave was referring to ... :confused: ...one where the lens is 100% detached from any connection to the camera body. Dave has a point. Macro's are commonly used in the manner he describes; this one can't be controlled when used that way. So its usefulness in being a macro lens is "limited".
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-06-2008, 11:20 PM
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much thanx for this post. Granted, it was a different time and angle on the tree, but that shot, and the others in that post [will I ever take a great dragon-fly shot like those?] has settled the debate for me. If I get a normal-wide prime, 31mm Ltd it'll likely be... well if the DA* 30mm isn't < f/2.0 or as 'magical' too. Weather sealed & SDM will have to get the nod if it can take pictures like that 31mm ltd.
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