Lens collection dilemma

[Hamish Gill]

Older sigma AF lenses dont work on modern digital cameras particularly well... The aperture problem is a well known one.
Im surprised the af works to be honest.

Lenses are now being built with firmware that can be updated, I suppose to get around this sort of thing... Your lens predates that sort of thing by a while though

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... thats not much help is it...
Buy an nd filter, then you can use it more easily in day light

 

[Adam Lewis]

Nah, I gathered. The person I bought it off claims it works perfectly fine on his 450d. But oh well. An ND filter is next on the list then, or alternatively just rise the shutter speed and keep ISO at 100 if necessary.
Ah well, still way cheaper than a canon 24mm

 

[Hamish Gill]

Hmm, I can't see how it would work on a 450d ...
But yeah, as you say, a lot cheaper than the alternative!

 

[Andy Boardman]

Hi Adam, it may well work on his 450D as Canon keep re routing the contact points as not all the pins on the bodies or lenses work, they are there for future developments,the sequence changes from time to time to help Canon sell more of their own lenses, it is the chip in each lens/body which talk to each other that make things work.His body might be from a completley different batch so may well have been OK with the Sigma at the time, we have had that happen here ourselves, works on one body we have had a while & not on a recent one.
The independant lens chaps have to work round that hence the problems.
Hope this helps.

 

[Adam Lewis]

Andy- Yeah I thought something similar, but I'm not too fussed, it's still a bargain for a 24mm ( £52 ) , and it is perfect condition, the bloke offered to take it back if I weren't happy, but it just looks so good sat on my camera
I've noticed the chip on the camera has 4 pins, followed by 3, but the lens has 4 followed by 2 , with the end one being a bit fatter. I don't know what my other lenses' chips look like, but anyway, it'll more than do for me

 

[Adam Lewis]

To update this thread. Kit lens & 28-105 both sold at £71.90 and £71.40 respectively (50p difference lol). The kit lens never turned up at the other end, so there's a claim in at Royal Mail for the loss. The 28-105 did turn up, however the bloke claimed that there was a number of proninent scratches, opened a case, would not provide a photo of said scratches, and eBay refunded him! He returned it to an incorrect address, parcelforce messed up the re-delivery to my actual address and ended up sending back to him. So I was lens down and money down, and then he wanted me to pay for the postage back to me.

It arrived today - not a mark on the lens?!
So in all, the sale of a £71 lens has cost me £5 (original postage) £8 (return postage), £7 (eBay fees) and then £5 (PayPal fees) = £25 , so that's annoying. £25 for nothing.
If I sold it again on eBay, ill get the £12 fees charged, and my £5 postage out, so £17.
£25 + £17 = £42 . Meaning that it has to sell for over £42 for any profit, if it sells for £70 again, I've effectively sold it for £28...
I'm gonna see how much LCE or anywhere else will give - hopefully it'll be over £28, but we'll see...

 

[Hamish Gill]

Stick it for sale on here for £50...?

 

[David Mitchell]

Put a summicron label on it and find one of those red dot stickers and relist it?