The K-5 might be better wit the Sigma 30/1.4. I may be able to get decent at 2.8 or 3.5 at higher ISO. But once you have the 28/2 Zeiss and 31/1.8 Pentax, things go back to normal and better. The Sigma 30/1.4 seems like good choice for the outdoor papparazi. Center forcuses well, but not te perimeter.
Jeffery On Nov 19, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > What killed the Sigma 30/1.4 for me was the better noise processing in > Lightroom 3. I'd rather shoot at high ISO with the sweeter, lighter > Pentax primes and just live-with/fix-up the noise. -T > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> > wrote: >> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
