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[Hamish Gill]

Taken in Great Whitley Church

Great Witley Church by -Hamish_Gill-

Nikon f100, sigma 50mm art, and portra 160

 

[Rob MacKillop]

A hobby of yours, Hamish? Nice dof there!

 

[Beth Carter]

beautiful, love the portra tones and amazing dof.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Of love to be able to play it Rob, unfortunately I'm not blessed with even an punch of musical ability

Thanks Beth, I do love a bit of portra

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Of love to be able to play it Rob, unfortunately I'm not blessed with even an punch of musical ability

Thanks Beth, I do love a bit of portra

Excellent Hamish. But surely you must have pressed a key or two in hope, everyone does

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

@Hamish. How are you finding this 50mm art lens. I have been very tempted.

 

[Hamish Gill]

its absolutely exceptional Julian!
I used to use the nikon 50mm 1.4, but got sick of how soft it was at 1.4 at distances. It basically made it useless in low light if I was any distance beyond about 2 meters from the subject. The sigma is not only sharper at 1.4 it is probably shaper than at 1.4 than the nikon is at any aperture.
at f4 its the sharpest, highest contrast lens I have ever used of any focal length. Im pretty sure it out resolves the D800
In fact the only thing I have seen wrong with it is some very minor spherochromatism as can be seen in this photo.



But as you can see its not serious. Bokeh, other than that is very well corrected:



Bugger all distortion, or any other aberrations that I can find.
Generally, its awesome!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

its absolutely exceptional Julian!
I used to use the nikon 50mm 1.4, but got sick of how soft it was at 1.4 at distances. It basically made it useless in low light if I was any distance beyond about 2 meters from the subject. The sigma is not only sharper at 1.4 it is probably shaper than at 1.4 than the nikon is at any aperture.
at f4 its the sharpest, highest contrast lens I have ever used of any focal length. Im pretty sure it out resolves the D800
In fact the only thing I have seen wrong with it is some very minor spherochromatism as can be seen in this photo.



Bugger all distortion, or any other aberrations that I can find.
Generally, its awesome!

Yes interesting. As I understand lenses like the Nikon are built more for bokeh than to be sharp wide open which I can appreciate. But the talk around this new Sigma Art lens has been all praising and talk has from what i've seen all positive. Thanks for posting those Hamish. Appreciated.

 

[Pete Askew]

And not one person has commented that you'd pulled all the stops out on this one Hamish. What is this forum coming to?!

Lovely shot Hamish and no harshness at all. Impressive.