I’ve long blown the horn for Sigma’s full frame optics, providing industry leading optical performance at honest, realistic prices (every one of the half dozen lenses I’ve tested/reviewed and/or purchased over the last few years have been wonderful), I started to wonder why I’d not tried out their crop frame offerings. While Panasonic seemingly focuses on video featured GH cameras along with their new full frame platform, and Olympus hopes pros jump to its EM1X, I’m over here enjoying my now aged, and in my mind legendarily ‘just right’ Goldilocks GX8 with some new glass. C’mon in to see more from this Sigma super tele zoom lens on Canon, Sony and Micro 4/3 bodies, and to see if it’s up to snuff.Ĭontinue reading → *Sigma 56mm f/1.4 for Micro 4/3, holy crap… Cost is now more important to me than ever as I’ve seen my fun budget reallocated elsewhere by necessity these days. The last few years have seen some changes in my life, not the least of which seeing me move from part time working independent photographer, to hobbiest. Whether you’re shooting a mirrorless or DSLR system, third party lens options can offer huge cost:performance benefits. A global economic landscape, combined with investment needed by the companies building these newer systems, in optical engineering, manufacturing and marketing results in that cost being passed to the consumer, especially with proprietary offerings. One drawback to investing in newer mirrorless system architecture is that many new lenses are expensive. A facilitating factor for much of my excitement originally was adaptability and that factor has, over these years, turned into a revolution in many ways with the birth of smart adapters for the mirrorless setups I have and am currently shooting with in the micro 4/3, Canon RF and previously the Sony E system. In the time that I’ve been writing about photography on this site, I’ve wholly switched over to mirrorless cameras which has provided me with certain benefits as well as a few drawbacks. I was an early adopter of mirrorless system cameras, in fact this very blog was largely built upon the back of my passionate love affair with the micro 4/3 system over a decade ago. Regardless of which system or systems a photographer is invested in, the choices are plentiful. We are living in a time where our photographic reality is absolutely overflowing with optical options.
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