Larry,
I also have the 77 Ltd, but sometimes I just need that extra 2/3 stop
(for example when shooting live music). I'm waiting to see what the
price on this Sigma 85mm is going to be, but I suspect it won't be
cheap. This from DPR talking to Sigma Chief Operating Officer, Kazuto
Yamaki, at the PMA 2010:
FLD elements are also used in the [Sigma] 85mm F1.4, which has been
attracting a lot of attention at the show. 'It's similar in concept to
the 50mm F1.4 - it's bigger, heavier and more expensive than OEM
lenses but achieves higher performance,' says Yamaki.
'We've made this for professional and advance amateur photographers,'
he explained: 'we've tried to achieve better performance [than the OEM
equivalents], particularly when using fully open apertures on the
latest DSLRs.'
So, on the one hand I'm expecting a very good lens, on the other hand
I'm expecting to have my kidney to send over to B&H. We'll see...
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On 22 February 2010 06:33, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
> I was poking around in the silly hope that the various colors of K-x
> announced for Europe would be coming to the states. As most people
> expected, there weren't really any announcements from Pentax, though Sigma
> seems to have announced some lenses that could be rather interesting if they
> have good image quality for the cost. Fast glass is always appealing to me.
>
> My 20/1.8 is back from Sigma and the nasty bumpiness in the focus may be
> gone. Time will tell, and I've been happy with the optics on it.
>
> 85/1.4 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022015sigma85mm.asp
>
> I've been surprised at how often the 2/3 stop of 1.4 over 1.8 comes in
> handy. The little bit of extra reach and especially speed of this over my
> 77/1.8 could be handy. I'm sure the optics would be better than the Korean
> 85/1.4. Though I love my 77/1.8 so much that it's hard to imagine my using
> anything else in it's range when I didn't absolutely need the little extra
> bit of speed.
>
> 70-200/2.8 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022016sigma70mm200mm.asp
>
> I doubt it would be nearly as nice as the Pentax 80-200/2.8, but it'd
> probably be a lot more affordable.
>
> 17-50 / 2.8 http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022014sigma17mm50mm.asp
>
> Same as above but with the 16-50.
>
> 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 rectilinear
> http://www.dpreview.com/news/1002/10022011sigma8mm16mm.asp
> If you're going to go wide, this could be very interesting.
>
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> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est
>
>
>
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