Most of you realize that for me a lens test doesn’t require a fancy lens testing chart or a brick wall. It’s not that I don’t think that this type of test is valid, it’s just that I don’t think that photographing charts has much to do with real life photography. The only real exception to this that I can think of is maybe photographing paintings but even then I would be using a fixed focal length flat field lens, not some extreme wide angle zoom.
Over the past few years I have rambled on about real world photography using certain lenses that I have purchased. While this may or may not be a good way to compare lenses, it will give you an idea of how a lens performs, this from a guy that likes equipment to work well but at the same time doesn’t pixel peep.
Is this valid? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
I thought I would list these ramblings in one place, let me know what you think!
- Sigma 10-20 mm lens – 8 month report
- Sigma 50-150mm lens
- Sigma 30mm f1.4
- Sigma 150mm f2.8 APO Macro review
- Nikon 17-55mm f2.8
- Fisheye views Nikon 10.5mm
- A few more 180’s from the Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye Lens
- Sigma 50mm f2.8 D Macro
Kevin,
Thanks for the reviews! Hope you don’t mind but I linked to this post. I’ve been wondering about the whole Canon vs Sigma quality thing lately. I’m sure that the Nikon vs Sigma is similar.
It seems as though many of us go through the same scenario, are the third party lenses as good? One of the interesting tidbits that I have stumbled across on forums is that many photographers seem to have more of an issue with Sigma lenses having problems on Canon cameras than Nikons. I’m always a little skeptical about comments like that because I think many people that are having issues might just be caused by bad technique.
Oh, the Nikon thing; I grew up with Nikons and while I know they’re completely inferior I just have to make do!!!