Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-14 Thread Fred
>>Do you happen to have a photo of the lens, Derby? (Thanks.) > This is the ebay listing... http://tinyurl.com/blnpt Thanks, Derby. That's interesting looking. I've never seen one of 'em before, and I was just curious. > I have to say, I'm a bit intrigued with this lens. It is definitely > k

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-14 Thread Derby Chang
Fred wrote: Does anyone know anything about this lens? Its a manual focus Sigma XQ 200mm/f3.5 on an interchangeable lens mount. The focusing mechanism is interesting. It has a quick focusing ring, and a second, fine focusing ring that gets it into the "macro" mode, although I think i

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-13 Thread Fred
> Does anyone know anything about this lens? Its a manual focus Sigma XQ > 200mm/f3.5 on an interchangeable lens mount. > The focusing mechanism is interesting. It has a quick focusing ring, and > a second, fine focusing ring that gets it into the "macro" mode, > although I think it is actually

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-10 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 10, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Ronald Arvidsson wrote: Hi Bob, On my Sigma f4 lens its written T3/YS Is the T3 a development of the YS or... Cheers, Ronald http://www.butkus.org/chinon/y-s_mount/ys.htm Bob

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-10 Thread Ronald Arvidsson
Hi Bob, On my Sigma f4 lens its written T3/YS Is the T3 a development of the YS or... Cheers, Ronald Bob Shell wrote: On Dec 10, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Ronald Arvidsson wrote: The YS-mount to begin with was used in the 70's by a number of lens manufacturers (maybe they were al Sigma?). Sun,

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-10 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 10, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Ronald Arvidsson wrote: The YS-mount to begin with was used in the 70's by a number of lens manufacturers (maybe they were al Sigma?). Sun, Focal, Sigma. Its also called the T3 mount. This mount was developed by Sigma. The YS mount was a Sigma exclusive. It

Re: Sigma XQ 200mm - strange soft-focus macro

2005-12-10 Thread Ronald Arvidsson
Hi, The YS-mount to begin with was used in the 70's by a number of lens manufacturers (maybe they were al Sigma?). Sun, Focal, Sigma. Its also called the T3 mount. This mount was developed by Sigma. Some reading can be found at moghans website about medium format http://medfmt.8k.com. In 200