I’ve just added a new page of reviews of the Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC MACRO lens. If you have any links to suggest, please add them to the comments.
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There have been a lot of interesting announcements coming out of this year’s Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show. Rather than clog up this blog with dozens of individual posts, I’ll do one of these catch-all posts every few days.
A good related article is Michael Reichmann’s state-of-the-industry summary A View of the Photographic Industry From 30,000 Feet.
More comprehensive coverage of and commentary on the PMA 2006 announcements can be found at The Luminous Landscape.
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Sigma has announced a new 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 zoom lens designed for APS-C reduced-size sensor digital SLRs.
Features include:
You can read all about it at the Sigma web site.
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If you shoot with a small-sensor digital SLR (often called “APS-C” sensors) such as the Canon 10D/20D/300D/350D or Nikon D70/D100/D50, you’ve probably already been frustrated by the difficulty of shooting wide angle.
All these cameras have a 1.5x or 1.6x ‘crop factor’ due to the smaller sensor, so your 24mm lens has a field of view equivalent to a 36mm or 38mm lens on a film camera. It’s nice for the bird photographers working at the long end (cheap 300mm lenses become 480mm!), but it sucks for landscape photographers working at the wide end.
Photo.net has a roundup of ultrawide zooms for Canon and Nikon DSLRs that might help you choose a suitable new lens. Although they don’t review each lens, at least it’ll help you figure out what the options are and you can then Google for technical reviews of those lenses that appeal to you.
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Sigma has released their new APO 50-500mm F4-6.3 EX DG/HSM lens, optimized for use with digital SLR cameras.
High Magnification Zoom Lens with a 10:1 zoom ratio, from 50mm standard to 500mm ultra telephoto focal length range.
For the first time in optical history, this ultra-zoom lens employs a seven-group zoom system, which provides a high magnification. This system ensures a superior level of precision from 50mm standard to 500mm ultra focal length range.
In addition, by utilizing triple-cam Rear Focusing System effectively, high precision is maintained throughout the whole focus length.
See Sigma’s web site for more information.
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Sigma has just announced a new 180mm f/3.5 telephoto macro lens designed specifically for use with digital cameras. It is compatible with Sigma, Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Konica Minolta DSLRs.
Features include:
For more information, see the Sigma press release at DPReview.
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Popular Photography and Imaging has just published The Great DSLR Shoot-Out. They put up nine sub-$2,500 DSLRs head-to-head, comparing features and performance to help you decide which one is right for you.
The cameras reviewed are:
The article is in PDF format, so you can print it out and analyse it in detail when shopping for a digital SLR.
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