Tag: Sigma 50/1.4 ART
Sculptures or photo spot?
Hey guys, Today I’d like to take you for a little walk to Burgenland, to be more precise, to Sankt Margarethen. The village has a quarry and a sculpture park where you can take some longer walks with interesting things to see. Several big pieces of art made of stone are spread all over the ...
The Beauty and the Beast: Sigma DP3M vs 50mm f1.4 Art + SD1M (Part 2)
In the first part of this comparison I tested the sharpness of the two cameras, or rather of the two lenses, at a very short distance to the motif (~1.8m). Even though the 50/2.8 is an extraordinary lens, it had to bow to the “beast”. The 50mm 1.4 DG HSM Art, being much bigger, much ...
Review: Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art
“To buy or not to buy?”, that was the question when I was having to make a decision on whether I should order the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art or not. Arguments against buying were the facts that, one, portraits are not amongst my favourite motifs, and two, my needs for a shorter telephoto ...
Repetition is the mother of all studies, but simply starting to take pictures is much more fun
During some photo tours I try to focus on only a small, limited number of motifs – e.g. only cats or dogs – in order to achieve better results through repetition. As the ancient Romans already knew: the mother of all studies is repetition. This rather useful learning method can, however, sometimes lead to boredom ...
Another photo walk with the Sigma 50mm f1.4mm Art
Having bought a new lens, I did what many photographers do, I used my first photo walk with the 50/1.4 Art mainly for taking test shots and familiarizing myself with the lens. Most of the pictures I took at wide open aperture, for two reasons: first, because such photos are the easiest way to determine ...
The first review of the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art!
Imaging Resource and SLRGear are the first two websites to having received the new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art. They tested it right away with Canon cameras 1Ds, Mk3 and 7D and compared the new lens to same-league lenses from Canon, Nikon and Sony (50mm f/1.2L USM, 58mm f/1.4G AF-S and 55mm f/1.8 ZA Carl Zeiss ...
Sigma targets Zeiss Otus with the new 50mm f/1.4 Art!
Thanks to Sigma-Rumors I have discovered this highly interesting hands-on article by Imaging-Resource. According to that, Sigma doesn’t consider the Canon L or Nikkor 50/1.4 G, but rather the most expensive and currently best normal focal length, the Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4, as competition to its recently announced 50mm f/1.4 Art. I expected something along ...
Sigma introduces 50mm f1.4 ART and 18-200mm Contemporary!
By the look of it, we are living in the age of super high-definition and fairly big and heavy normal focal lengths. After Zeiss and Nikon introduced their fast, high-definition and bulky normal focal lengths Otus 55mm f/1.4 and 58mm f/1.4, it’s now Sigma’s turn. The dimensions and the quite sophisticated optical design of the ...
