The same experience with the Sigma 30/1.4. I bought it to shoot indoors at wide open aperture. Not very good. Much better outdoors at 5.6. Unfortunately, it's big and heavy, and Pentax makes a 31 that is smaller and better wide open.
Right now, the 30/1.4 is a body cap for my K100. Jeffery On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > When I bought my sigma 20/1.8, the intention was to use it for indoor, low > light, dance photography. For various reasons, mostly involving manual > focus, it hasn't proven to be as good for that as I had hoped. On the other > hand, I'm finding it very handy as a wide angle macro lens. For example, a > lot of the time that I'm shooting mushrooms, to get the angle I want, I need > to be very close to the subject because roots of the stump, or the ground, is > in the way if I'm trying to use a longer lens. > > Does anybody else have lenses that they bought for one use, that they later > found are much better for something else entirely? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
