Showing posts with label sigma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sigma. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2007

Widening My Perspective

After becoming extremely frustrated with my 28mm "not-so-wide" angle lens while trying to capture some architectural interiors, I bit the bullet and bought a super wide angle lens so I didn't obliterate anyone in my furor. ;)

After much research, I opted for the Sigma 10-22mm f/4-5.6. It's meant for crop cameras (my D60 has a 1.6x focal length crop) so overall, it acts like a 16-32mm, which is just fine by me. So now I'm covered from 16mm to 364mm and my old camera feels important again. Not too shabby.

This lens is built like a tank, tack sharp, smooth, and focuses quickly even on my dinosaur of a SLR crop camera with one focus point activated in low light. :) Doesn't work quite so well on my Mark II as it's not intended for that camera, but it would work just fine in a pinch. Just can't zoom past 12mm or the edge of the lens shows up in the frame...

Since all my other work is primarily shot with a l-o-n-g lens, sometimes even with an extender, this is quite the shock to my style and I guess my brain too. Making me think much differently, but I'm having a BLAST experimenting.

Here's the results so far: