Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A belated response to the original question - I use the 30 1.4 Sigma on Olympus 4/3 bodies, so it's a 60 for me. As other's have noted, it's not a 35 summilux asph in terms of performance, but it's quite good. And the bokah is indeed "pretty damn decent." This is a good, cheap, fast lens, well worth the price and then some. Is it built like a Leica? Absolutely not. So burn through five or six - or seven of them... :-) On 12/30/07 9:57 AM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > Now that you have directed me back to a picture I took but barely recall, > the bokeh is actually pretty damned decent. I don't know why my memory was > flawed on that part. In all other respects, I like the lens. I guess I like > it in all respects. And mounted on the diminutive Pentax *istD (a *tiny* > dSLR), one could carry it all day without grief. > > Jeffery > > On Dec 30, 2007 12:35 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >>> I have it. I think that it is right for the price. A bit soft wide open, >> and >>> the bokeh has that unsettling aspherical element look to it. I blogged >> about >>> it in 2006. >>> >>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html >>> >>> Scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click on images for bigger >>> renditions. >>> >>> Jeffery >>> >>> >> To be a nay nay sawyer (double negative) again I think this example you >> are >> using >> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6697/3153/1600/violet.1.jpg >> Would make a dizzying Bokeh experience for any lens. >> Show us another shot without big blobs of green and purple the same size >> as the ones we are trying to in focus look at. >> >> I have a feeling this sigma 30 1.4 is a lens worth checking out. >> http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00IExS >> This stuff looks great to me. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> markrabiner.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >