[Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM] It’s a permanent fixture on my D60
By C. Nation “chrisnation” (Bristol UK)
My favourite focal lengths on my 35mm film cameras used to be 28mm and 20mm. When I worked with John Claridge as his assistant, I often used to wish I could afford the 15mm Nikkor that he used so often.
Now this Sigma gives me 15 – 30mm [equiv] and I’m pleased as can be. If I was asked to spec a focal length range for a wide zoom, this is exactly it. The drawing you get from lenses from 30mm and wider gives the kind of interest I’m looking to produce in my pictures. It’s immediately made itself my default lens and max-wide tends to be my default focal length.
I’ve got a sklight filter in permanent residence and that is very frequently joined by a polariser. Polariser filters are by nature quite thick beasts so I do get a little vignetting at max wide and well stopped down but the merest touch of zoom in – usually only removing some of the area I’d already dialed in for a crop, but in any event, not usually enough change to ruin the shot – and the vignetteing is gone.
How Sigma do this for the price, I don’t know but it’s worth every penny. It seems chunkily well made. The images seem to be very high quality – tho I’m pretty new to digital photography so have no great fund of experience to draw on. I’d buy the equiv Nikkor every time if money was no object but Nikkors are totally beyond my budget.
But anyone with a Sigma’s worth of dosh to spend on a wide zoom, as opposed to the Nikon or Canon equiv, is going to be really pleased with buying this lens.
