Couple of Sigma 30mm Shots....

[JJ!]

Not really had much of a chance to use this lens very much, but here a few of my results do far:

 

[Tigger]

Very nice JJ, guess it's a specific lens for portraits then?

 

[Andy.]

My only criticism of the lens is that the minimum focus distance is too long.

Your outdoor shots look very sharp though

 

[JJ!]

^^ yeah i wish it was closer than 40cm!! But other than that its an awesome bit of kit!

 

[planetx]

As a portrait lens , you don't need to worry about close focusing distance - most people don't like having a lens shoved up there nostrils.

Bit of stand off is what you need to a portrait, unless of course you want nostril hairs in the image lol

 

[JJ!]

I was advertising this for sale... but have just been playing with the lens and its impressive in low light.... not the sharpest of shots... but f1.4 and shutter speed of 1/13 whilst being used hand held.....

And indoors at f2.8 and shutter of 0.033

 

[JJ!]

Another low light shot... only light in the room was from a small corner lamp...

 

[Nigel]

Impressive shots. A guy in work has the canon 30mm and he showed me his photos from a recent christening and the shots were brilliant. I'm going to try and get to have a play with one soon.

 

[JJ!]

The shutter speed you can get in low light is just great, tried taking the same shots with my other lens and it was having none of it!!!

 

[ukaskew]

Did you use a 50mm 1.8 before? Just wondered if it's worth having both as I find my 50mm a bit long for a lot of things.

Stunning shots anyway.

 

[JJ!]

I can't fairly compare the 50mm to the 30mm as one was manual focus and one was auto focus. I would say the sigma shots are better and is more usable in low light.

Its far from cheap, about 3 times the amount of the 50, but i'm finding 30 is such a decent range!