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A beautifully crafted lens

Advantages: Good quality and clear defintion
Disadvantages: Quite bulky and heavy

This lens is a beautiful crafted piece of equipment, it enable for high quality, high definition photographs to be taken. You maybe think that the size is quite extreme however although being quite heavy and large in size, the photographs i have taken ...

oliverporter3 11.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma 180mm F3.5 APO Macro EX IF HSM - Nikon D-type

Sigma 70mm F/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens: A sharp little macro

Advantages: Sharp, beautiful pictures
Disadvantages: Possibly price, although cheaper than many macro lenses.

About the lens: This is one of Sigma's range of lenses - at 70mm it's one of the shorter macro lenses on the market, many coming in at around 105mm. It has sigma's EX technology, from Sigma's website this means "The exterior of this lens is EX-finished to ...

littlem91 30.03.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma 70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro - Nikon D-type

Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 APO DG Macro - a very versatile lens

Advantages: Good value for money, versatile
Disadvantages: No image stabilisation

I bought this lens with a specific purpose in mind - photographing model aircraft in flight. I had previously used a Canon 80-200 mm which I found a bit too limiting at the long end of the range - an excellent lens, but not quite right for the job. The ...

Canonball 14.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro

Mighty Little Macro

Advantages: High Quality. Sharp. Good package for price.
Disadvantages: No HSM or Internal focusing.

I have owned this lens (in Canon mount) for some time and use it frequently. Being a DG designated lens, it is suitable for use on both FF (full-frame) and cropped sensor APS-C digital SLR cameras. I use my example on Canon EOS 5D and EOS 400D digital SLR ...

davecham 04.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma EX macro lens - 70 mm F/2.8

Macro shooting, Sigma style-ee

Advantages: Good build quality and good value for money .
Disadvantages: Sigma`s claims not met and a slow auto focus .

Owners and uses of DSLR cameras will know that there are dozens of different lenses that can be attached to the cameras to enable different types of photography to be done correctly. The original or kit lenses that come with most DSLR`s are capable of ...

thebigc1690 23.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sigma EX 18-50mm F2.8 DC