Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Sigma 28-80mm macro lens

Yesterday I was searching through my collection of Canon fit lenses looking for a macro lens. I was sure I should have a kit lens which comes with the 350D but couldn't find it. Instead I came across a Sigma 28-80mm f3.5-5.6 aspherical II macro lens so decided to try that. I was going to have a test run using the built in stacking facility in the Magic Lantern software I have running on the 50D but after reading various instruction on the web decided to put that on the Round Tuit pile. Instead I wandered round the garden to see what was in flower.

Here are the results; 50D using Magic Lantern. No cropping, no tweaking, just text added in Irfanview. All were taken in RAW format and saved as jpg from Irfanview:

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Plus the only bee I saw during that session:

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The above photo cropped:
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All were taken hand held with the aperture fixed at f10, ISO 400, some with added flash. Weather was overcast with no direct sunlight and breezy so most were moving to some extent. On the whole I am very pleased with the results from this Sigma. I'm not usually impressed with that make but this lens looks to have its uses, as does Magic Lantern once I get fully used to using the LCD screen for viewing as the mirror has to be locked up to switch over to their software.
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8 comments:

  1. TexWisGirl18 June 2013 at 14:46

    a pretty set of photos! the 3rd one is just beautiful!

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    1. Midmarsh John18 June 2013 at 16:05

      Ah, TWF, the forget-me-nots which self seed like weeds around my garden.

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  2. FAB18 June 2013 at 16:38

    All looks very good to me.

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    1. Midmarsh John18 June 2013 at 16:56

      Thank you Frank. Combination of RAW and Magic Lantern seems to give better natural rich depth of colour

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  3. Roy Norris18 June 2013 at 19:55

    Some really great macros John.

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    1. Midmarsh John18 June 2013 at 22:42

      Thank you Roy. It worked better than I expected.

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  4. ADRIAN23 June 2013 at 08:22

    John, Nothing wrong with these. I used to have a 150mm Sigma macro Olympus fit lens and it was a beauty.
    I suspect it is shooting in RAW that is lifting the images. There is so much more information to play with.

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    1. Midmarsh John23 June 2013 at 09:58

      Adrian. Could be that using Sigma on the old 350D didn't bring out the best in them. Certainly the macro lens is well worth the £100 or less it can be picked up for.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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