New lens! Just got in a Sigma 10-20. Super-wide!

[priller]

This is the first and last time I will ever show my nasty apartment. But it was an easy way to show how wide the lens can go. Keep in mind I'm only about 3 ft. from the mirror:





Still waiting on the Nikon 18-200. :(

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I've got that lens, too.

It's pretty fun. That's what I had on my camera when I took that airplane picture last week. I love it for big landscapes.

[bvar22]

2. I like it!

I see another Sigma lens in my future.

[priller]

3. My goodness, what a mess!

Why did I ever post this? I guess I was all excited about the new lens.

BTW, in the stack of reading material (ahem) on the right, is a Popular Photo magazine, below it is a copy of Practical Photography, the big yellow book is "Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art", below that is "Paul Strand: 50 Years of Photographs", below that is "History of Photography" by Beaumont Newhall (which is excellent!). Geez, what a one-track mind! But there are a few cooking and food mags on the bottom, so I do have other interests.

[F.Gordon]

4. LOL

I didn't even notice it till you pointed it out.;-)

I've been readin' lots. The Newhall book? A goodin'???

Ultra Wide is lots of fun. You're going to love using that lens.
:hi:

[priller]

7. Yes, the Newhall book is a bit old but very well written

Enjoyable reading.

[Touchdown]

10. Why so many toothbrushes?

You got an electric enamel sander, and what... 2 or 3 in the petri cup? And not a tube of toothpaste in sight!:rofl:

Photo books. I never thoiught of that. I've got "FUBAR: America's Right Wing Nightmare" by Sam Seder in mine. No pictures though.:D

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Still waiting on my Tamron..............

Sometime in the spring they say. Arrrrgh...........

[CC]

6. You are going to love love

love that lens. BTW you are much braver than I, taking a pic inside you house. :rofl:

[electricmonk]

8. I'm saving up for a superwide now

I was about 50 dollars away from getting one when my computer monitor went up in a puff of smoke. Replaced the monitor with a beautiful looking Samsung LCD. I figured that set me back a few weeks no big deal then my car broke down 3 days later. Between the 2 I could have bought a whole new D70 body. Anyway I'm hoping by the end of this month to either have the 10-20 Sigma or the 10.5 Nikon. I can't wait.

Nice selection of books too. My most recent photobook purchases were Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design and Lee Miller: A Life. I give both 5 stars.

[Placebo]

9. I want this lens more than anything.

I just know it will make my D50 feel like a whole new camera!

Damn it sucks being a poor college student. Grr.

[electricmonk]

11. Me too

I still haven't gotten a superwide. Something else keeps coming up to siphon off my bank account.

I have a 24mm for my film camera that I'm going to start using again until I can get a 10mm for my digital. Hopefully my Christmas bonus will be big enough for both that and all the other end of year crap that always hits me.

I want to be able to get shots like this with the digital. The highlights in the original aren't nearly this blown out. I've recently started a project of rescanning everything since I've learned a hell of a lot in the last year or so about scanning.

[Eurobabe]

12. You suck

Just kidding...I am jealous. Hubby is going to Bangkok in Oct., so maybe I'll get some lenses.

[Maestro]

13. Have fun.

A wide angle is on my list but I think I am going to get a 400mm prime L series lens first. That is going to take a while for which to save though.

[insane_cratic_gal]

14. thats the exact color of my bedroom!

but otherwise thats some beautiful glass!

[priller]

15. I can't believe this thread has resurfaced

What an awful picture! Must be the lens making my stomach look so big. Yeah, that's it!

I have to say I haven't really fallen in love with the wide Sigma. It has the right-side distortion that many people have reported, but you only see it in certain circumstances, and I'm still not sure what they are. On the other hand I've taken a lot of shots with it I like. I think another part of it is I'm still learning to use it, and haven't really used it that much. I tend to use my new Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 more often. Now that's a great lens!

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I think the tricky part,

at least for me, is making sure you have something good in the foreground to give it some depth. Otherwise, things just look far away and tiny.

[bvar22]

17. I have the Sigma 10-20 also.

It is a slow lens (F/4 - F/5.6). Handheld indoor available light suffers (like the above).
I don't use it very much, almost never for landscapes. It is not one of my fun lenses.
However, due to the sensor factor for digital cameras, there have been occasions where this lens has been absolutely necessary (where obstructions have forced me close to the subject).

One of my Summer projects was documenting Wall Murals in the Twin Cities.
Parked cars, telephone polls, parking meters, and trees added much interference and frustration.


Using the Sigma 10-20, I was able to stand between the obstructions and the subject. I still needed to correct for fisheye and stitch together several exposures, but the Sigma lens made it possible.
IIRC, the above wall took only 3 shots at 10mm, and I was standing at most 5' from the wall.

Hmmm, looks like I need to do a little contrast equalizing. Well, this work IS still in progress, but you get the idea.

I have also used the Sigma 10-20 in some RailRoad museums where the locomotives are parked very close together. The same technique allowed me to stitch together good pix of some long locomotives.

The Sigma 10-20 is certainly not in the same class as as the Nikon or Cannon HIGH-PRICED lenses, but it is not really meant to be. Nikon offers lens in the same wide angle fields, but none are less than $1000, AND they are as slow or slower than the Sigma. For the money, I am happy with the Sigma.

[Deep13]

18. Is that digital?

If so that is really, really, really wide and has less distortion than my 28mm that I use for 35mm.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. It is VERY wide.

Here's one I took using this lens on my Canon 20D. The room is about 30' long. Those are my feet on the left.

[bvar22]

20. The Sigma 10-20

The Sigma 10-20 at 10mm would be almost twice as wide as a 28mm on a 35mm film body, even with the sensor factor.

Nikon has a 1.5 sensor factor. On a Nikon Digital camera, the Sigma at 10mm would have a 15mm equivalence (to a 35mm).