March 2, 2009
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Sigma at PMA 2009…
Sigma just announced a slew of new lenses. Nothing really exciting for the professional photographer, other than a newly designed 10-20 f/3.5 DC. I’d buy it for adventure photography if it were sharper than the old version, stopped down, but not really for the extra aperture of wide-open performance. I’m already unhappy with the DOF at wider angles on DX, for situations where I need shallow DOF. I’d rather have a 20, 24, or 28mm f/1.X lens on full-frame, for sure!They also announced that the new 24-70 2.8 will be available soon. I have yet to determine if it could be as sharp as the Nikon 24-70. I’m sure it won’t be equal, but if for example it comes close for $1000 less, well…
Other than that we just have a bunch of stabilized kit-ish lenses. A step up from kit lenses, really, but I myself as a professional or a high-end amateur am not interested in any of them.
I’m REALLY looking forward to whatever announcement Nikon has coming! They have been silent for PMA so far; we should hear something some time this week. Statistically speaking, Wednesday is our best bet if I am correct.
Take care!
=Matt=
