Tagged with sigma - Personal View Talks

FS GH2 (hacked) in good condition

a_fulda — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:12:00 +0000

I am selling my beloved GH2. It has the Flowmotion v2 hack installed. I used this camera for my 2013 documentary series 'Stewards of the Social Environment'. You can head over to my Vimeo channel (Andreas Fulda) and have a look at the six portrays of social enterprises in Europe and China. I am selling it since I am planning to purchase a Nikon D750 as a B-Cam for my C100.

Please note that the viewfinder can come loose. It's not a big issue, since it currently stays in its place. If you want to make sure that it does not come off you may need to glue it carefully. I am selling the GH2 with the Sigma 30mm f2.8 lens, the original Sigma lens case, the original GH2 battery and original charger plus 2 spare batteries. An EOS-M43 adaptor is also part of the package. Price is £140. I am happy to cover shipping costs within the UK.

FS Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6 Canon fit in mint condition

a_fulda — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:59:15 +0000

I am selling my Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6 Canon fit with UV filter and original lens bag. Since it was always protected by a Hoya 77 mm UV filter the lens is in mint condition. I am selling it since I am planning to purchase a Nikon D750 as a B-Cam for my C100. Price is £80. I am happy to cover shipping costs within the UK.

Aperture blades Noise on GH4 with Metabones

club_irate — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:49:56 +0000

My Panny GH4+ Sigma 18-35 paired with Metabones MFT-EF Speedbooster Old 0.71x version) is giving a prominently audible Aperture blades opening and closing noise (Both with the jog dial and the manual lever on the MB-SB) suddenly. This sound was not there until last time i had touched my camera (like 10 days back) and updated my Metabones firmware to 2.0 (Could the update be the reason for this iris sound or something else? I have already tried the remove and reattach the lens and the adapter, dint work.

Any clue?

Beholder DS1 with Sigma 18+35 (Panasonic Gh4)

club_irate — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:01:39 +0000

Just got the DS1 gimbal today. Wanted to know whether anybody has got the Sigma 18-35+Metabones Speedbooster Ef-Mft+Panasonic GH4 combo working on it or is it too front heavy?

Any PID settings alterations which might make it work?

Would love to not have to spend more to buy a Tokina 11-16 to make it up and running. Thanks in advance.

FS. Sigma Art 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM Nikon & Metabones BMPCC Speedbooster Nikon

katig — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:01:37 +0000

Sigma: mint 10/10 condition, 24 months local warranty, inc. all original packaging items - 560€ Paypal Speedbooster: mint 10/10 condition, all original packaging items - 360€ Paypal

Prices include shipping to EU (shipping from Croatia).

Sigma 18-35 vs Tokina 11-16

Manu4Vendetta — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:26:03 +0000

Both optics are excellent. I would like to know the experience of many users if it were to acquire one Panasonic video with which to stay? For me personally it has always surprised me that the Tokina with GH's achieved a very particular look.

Sigma ART 18-35 f/1.8+ Mitakon Turbo lens or Panasonic 12-35 f/2.8?

lumixmaxgh3 — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:18:19 +0000

Hi, i've Panasonic Lumix GH3 and i need a good wide angle. AT THE SAME PRICE, for you which is the better choise? (Sigma+mitakon don't have stabilization and autofocus but much fast lens).

Thank you

FS Sigma 18-35 F1.8 (Nikon Mount)

thougts2uk — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:27:21 +0000

Hi there,

I am selling my Sigma 18-35 F1.8 lens (Nikon Mount) Only used on one project, but now I have changed camera system so no longer require the lens. It comes as boxed as new with all original documentation.

$650+20USD postage.

BMPCC RAW with metabones and Nikon Sigma 18-35 1.8 footage.

Bueller — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:47:17 +0000

Testing the sigma lens I just got. All shot with available light and color graded in Davinci without LUTs.

Used Sigma 18-35 lens purchase Help needed

club_irate — Fri, 29 May 2015 04:20:47 +0000

Hi, there is this person selling his Sigma 18-35 ART 1.8 lens which is 1 year old which i am planning to purchase. I asked him to shine the lens through with a flashlight and it has this dust inside the lens which you can see in the pic. Can anyone here who has a good understanding of this check it out and suggest if the level of dust seen in the pic is fine for me to go ahead and wont hamper the image quality.

Direct Link: http://www.4shared.com/download/TSeWp89Vce/Shining_light_thru_lens.jpg?lgfp=3000 (Its a larger size picture so that you guys can zoom in for a better look).

Other pictures: http://www.4shared.com/download/CrrLTrBhce/DSC00044.JPG?lgfp=3000

http://www.4shared.com/download/bDS8rfrace/DSC00029.JPG?lgfp=3000

Not sharing the exterior pics of the lens as that looked good.

Thanks in advance.

30mm and 35mm lenses choosing, Sigma, Samyang, others

RyanPW — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:39:11 +0000

Perhaps this topic has been talked about to death, but I haven't seen a thread on here about it and I figured some of you could convince me one way or the other on which lens I should be getting.

From my standpoint, the Sigma is better at shooting people and has FAR less breathing issues, but it is not as optically perfect as the Samyang, which is far sharper and has no barrel distortion. On the crop of the GH2, the 35mm makes less sense than it does on aps-c and even less than on a 5d (which I find it looks great on). The sigma doesn't have a dedicated aperture ring, but I do have a Novoflex Nikon to m43 adapter, so I'm personally all set to buy the Sigma, if it is ultimately going to be the right move...I know that, while there is a lot of focus breathing involved with the Samyang, and it isn't the best at shooting people in a 'naturalistic' kind of way like the, it does look great as a general composition tool and would probably end up taking optically better photos with.

Right now I have the tamron 17-50 f2.8, a minolta 24mm f2.8 (which I'm thinking about selling dependent on which lens I'm getting), a SMC 50mm and a Nikon 85mm f1.8d. In many ways, I wish I could just buy each of the voigtlanders and call it a day, but alas, I haven't sold any organs on the black market, yet...

How do you guys way in on these two lenses? Do you think there's a lens in this range that I have't considered enough of yet? I'm also thinking of going with the 25mm leica f1.4 and getting the voigtlander 40mm to go with it, but so far I've just been really enamored with both of these lenses. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

FS: Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art Lens for ( Nikon Mount )

J_Cooks — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:25:21 +0000

Hello,

I have a Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art Lens for Nikon mount for sale. The lens is just over a month old, only mounted on the camera 3 times. I decided to sell my pocket camera setup to fund my editing station, and so this lens is now for sale. It is in perfect condition. Comes with Original Box, paperwork, hood, and case. I'd rate it as a 10, pre-owned but looks as new.

I'm asking 680.00 usd shipped with in the USA.

700.00 usd shipped to Canada

Paypal accepted. Will supply tracking number at shipment.

I have a brand new Nikon to MFT Metabones adapter also for 60.00

Sigma lenses win Global Awards - Twice

goanna — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 05:25:15 +0000

SIGMA wins TIPA Awards 2015 Global Vision Lenses, for Zoom and Prime

(Mark Roeder, April 2015) top technology combined with the highest image quality, unique art manufacturing and stringent quality control - this is the high-quality high-performance lenses Sigma's Global Vision. With two products from our range convinced the experts from Japan this year again, the jury recognized the TIPA Awards and won two awards were equal. The SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM Contemporary been named the winner in the category "Best Entry Level DSLR Lens", SIGMA 24mm F1.4 the new DG HSM kind brought in the category "Best Expert DSLR Prime Lens" the victory.

(in German) http://www.artikel-presse.de/gleich-doppelt-ausgezeichnet-sigma-gewinnt-tipa-awards-2015-fuer-global-vision-objektive.html

FS: Voigtlander 25mm F0.95 with FF Gear and Sigma 18-35 F1.8 with FF Gears

thougts2uk — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:45:21 +0000

Hi there,

I am selling two lenses, the Voigtlaner 25mm F0.95 lens and also the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 with FF Gears.

Voigtlander is $800 inc. Postage Sigma 18-35 $750 inc. Postage

If you have any questions please let me know either by replying on here or emailing me directly; stuart.howe@gmail.com

Cheers,

Stuart

Deciding on lens for "speedboosted" (w/ speedbooster) m43 camera

magellan14 — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:00:52 +0000

I am deciding between lenses to get for my m43 Panasonic GH3 with the speedbooster. If anybody can offer suggestions or experience, I would appreciate it. I want to get an end focal length of around 50mm (give or take).

The lenses I am currently considering are:

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC HSM (art) for Canon EF

Rokinon/Samyang/Bower 35mm T1.5 for EF

If anybody has used those lenses, please offer your opinions. I have been impressed by the Sigma footage I have viewed but understand the Rokinon has stronger qualities for video - however, is very soft at 1.5.

WTB (UK) Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 (Nikon) + Nikon to BMPCC Speedbooster (BMCC or M43 considered)

_gl — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:20:51 +0000

Looking for: (UK based, open to elsewhere):

Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 (Nikon D5300 firmware fix a plus, USB Dock too).
2 x Nikon -> BMPCC Metabones Speedbooster (BMCC or M43 version considered)
Tokina 11-16mm Nikon (DX II version preferred, but either)

All need to be optically flawless.

FS: Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 ART for Nikon

Tobsen — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:08:39 +0000

The famous 18-35mm f.18 Art from Sigma in very good condition for sale. No scratches, used only for a couple of projects.

In combnation with a speedbooster this lens is by far the best zoom for m43. See pictures.

Location is Germany.

Price 590 Euro. SHipping is not included.

It comes in original packaging.

Newbie looking for lenses recommandations

monks19 — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:50:41 +0000

Hi. I do some events filming with Lumix cameras (G6 & GH2) using Sigma (Nikon mounts) zoom lenses with RJ adapters. All lenses are at f2.8 max for speed and luminosity. I know that the lowest can go down to f1.4, but I havent been able, so far, to find zoom lenses like this, whatever the brand, especially at a good price (lower than 500 $, used or new).

Does any of you have any recommandations/suggestions on which zoom lenses (whatever the brand, as long as an m43 adapter is avalaible) I should get with my cams (and which adapters, if needed and unavalaible with the RJ m43 ones) ?

Thanks to answer.

Parafocal, Controllable Iris Zooms for m4/3rds

Treetah — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 08:51:17 +0000

Hey guys. Had a question about lenses for my GH2 (hopefully soon to be GH4).

I'm looking for some parafocal zooms. Here's some criteria:

native or adaptable to m4/3rds
manual iris or adapter that includes iris control
hard stop focusing preferred
breathing I don't mind but nothing outrageous
no too-slow apertures like f8 or f16
need a few choices for cinema-purpose films
also some choices for live event/lecture shooting
zoom controls huge plus! (I plan on using my rigs FF)
under $5k
broader focal length range preferred

I've had my eye on the Nikor 50-300 f4.5 for example.

Thanks for the input!

treetah

Fixed f-stop, parfocal, image stabilized zoom for m43?

Mamumpofu — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:56:54 +0000

Looking for a fixed f-stop, parfocal, image stabilized, zoomable Zoom option for Panasonic GH2. After a month of searching I was wondering it this could be the one to work : Sigma 17-50 2.8 OS with "live" adapter. Which mount would be best to use EOS, Nikon, Pentax ? THX

Sigma 30mm 1.4 (not art) or Nikon 35mm 1.8 (G) for GH2?

RdC — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:52:03 +0000

Hi folks. Anyone have experience with this two lenses (maybe with speedbooster too)? Which is better for video or ,,filmlook´´? Thanks

Music Video GH2: Creating a vintage look

dlzn — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:16:27 +0000

I came up with a concept about a midget traveling around the city, kind of like Alice In Wonderland. Video shot - hand held - and edited by me. Using Panasonic GH2 and just Minolta MD 50mm F1.7. A few close-ups were done with the Sigma 19mm F2.8. Hack Flowmotion 2.

Cheers, D.

Actual light transmission of sigma 18-35?

joethepro — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:20:32 +0000

I've seen differing reports of the actual T-stop measurement of the sigma 18-35, anywhere from T1.8 to T2.8. Is there any conclusion data on this?

Sigma DP1x, DP2 and DP3 topic

stoney — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:53:08 +0000

Last year Amazon was selling it at $250, and I gladly got one.

Latest firmware has Capture Priority Mode feature that processes images when the buffer is full. At max resolution, 3 photos fills up the buffer which kicks in processing that would take about 10~20 seconds. Yeap be patient like slow cooking.

Dynamic range kinda sucks. SOOC JPEG quality sucks. High ISO performance really sucks. Some claim that its native ISO is only 100, and all other ISO settings are artificially simulated from in-camera post-processing. That explains why ISO 100 looks better than ISO 50. Yes there is noise at ISO 200. Haha gotta love this crazy Foveon!!! Of course there is no face detection. CDAF but manually select only one of 9 point focusing points. What a PITA piece of crap. But I've grown to like it. Foveon sensor is known to give very accurate color information, and it's just amazing how well it captures accurate color in shadow, on water reflection, in bright sun, or whatever crazy condition. Yes I use only ISO 100.

LR4 supports RAW, but Sigma's SPP app is much better at processing RAW. SPP can raise the brightness and boost color very well and simulate standard/vivid/scenary/monochrome/original/etc picture mode. But that's where its usefulness ends. Export to Tiff format then let LR4 import it.

SPP 5.5 has a pretty cool feature. Monochrome option from white balance selection strips out color information and uses only luminance values to produce "pure" B&W photo. FYI CMOS sensor has bayer filter on top of it, applies demosaicing algorithms to interpolate a set of complete red, green, and blue values for each point, then B&W photo can be generated from the guesstimated color information. That is a guesstimate from a guesstimate. Since Foveon sensor has three vertically stacked photodiodes for red/blue/green that collect 3 different luma information for each point, this new feature gives excellent B&W by controlling three different luma value separately without getting color noise. Some call it a poorman's Leica M-Monochrom :)

Example http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/51037744

But it supports only SD1 and DP1/2/3 Merrill series. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for expanding SPP's Monochrome support for all other DP series.

About video performance, it sucks.

24mm f/1.8 Sigma Macro EX DG

producer — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:29:31 +0000

Hi, Anyone tested this combination? What prons and cons? If someone uses Sigma 24mm f/1.8 Macro EX DG with GH1/GH2, please share a video. Thanks!

30mm F1.4 Sigma old

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:44:54 +0000

My own opinion about this lens is not very good.

Recently available Samyang 35mm F1.4 is better is every regard (build quality, sharpness, focus, etc). Except size and weight :-)

FS: Sigma 30mm f1.4 Canon mount

christianhubbard — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:17:15 +0000

I can put up pictures if need be, is in perfect condition, just trying to ease out of my canon system. sigma is probably 6-7. was bought brand new and will come in all original packaging

asking 350, shipping not included.

Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 on GH2 or Gh1

kronstadt — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:35:15 +0000

I'm considering getting a Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 lens for my Gh1 because is said to be a rectilinear (non-fisheye) lens. It is made for crop sensor APS-C cameras, but I'm not sure if it will work on m43 mount. Also, not sure if focus will work manually on GH2 or GH1? Any advice?

Has anyone tried this on a GH2 or GH1?

70-200mm Sigma 2.8 hsm II or Nikon 80mm-200mm

katig — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:05:39 +0000

I hooked up my GH2 with Nikon 17-55 and it is great combo. Now looking for good tele zoom for gh2. Well, if I had money i would buy Nikon VR1 :) Within my budget first choice was Tamron 70-200 but there's one problem for video use - short focus path (only 80°). So I decided for Sigma 70-200 hsm II or Nikon 80-200, the price for used ones is similar. Any advice from actual owners (I have already read all reviews) of these two lenses is welcome...

Sigma EX DC HSM Aspherical 30 mm F/1.4 Lens For Canon

neko30 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:05:28 +0000

Sigma EX DC HSM Aspherical 30 mm F/1.4 Lens For Canon

virtually brand new...used on 2 half day shoots. perfect condition with all packaging and accessories.

$339