Sigma 105mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro Ex DG On Portraits

2009-03-18 Posted by Hin Man
I have another photo session with my wife who is helping me to see if the Sigma can serve well in portraits as good as the Tamron. Perhaps the location is differenent with more space, the extra 15mm actually comes in handy. It is really a toss between the two macro lens, I am flip flopping between the two on which one can serve me better. At this moment, flipping a coin is not a bad idea. I need to train my eyes to see the subtle differences on sharpness and contrast. And it can boil down to plain intuition on ease of handling in operation. Testing lens is fun but deciding on similar good lens is not fun at all. At the end of the photos session, I told my wife that I love both lens and I gestured to her that I have serious problems in letting one to go, keeping two is just as difficult with the continuous self blaming to no ends.


I used mostly iso 200 in f/4.0 to f/5.6 settings due to cloudy morning. Plain jpg in K20D with no post processing. It seems the Sigma can serve well in portraits though a bit longer in focal length than the Tamron


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2 comments:

robin said...

"And it can boil down to plain intuition on ease of handling in operation."

Dead on. You need a lens that feels good to use and that you are comfortable with. Stop fretting the small (if any) IQ differences!

4:27 PM
Hin Man said...

Thank you Robin.

7:14 PM

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