Why? do 50 year old students get a discounts
I had a student discount card till last year - now aged 44Any aged student gets discounts. Every day is a school day
Any aged student gets discounts. Every day is a school day
It took about 3 days for my confirmation email to come through.Lens received from Amazon
Been on the Sigma website and registered the lens. States copy of registration sent to my email address, but as yet, haven't received the email.
If it was a grey import, would it have highlighted it when I entered the serial number, or do Sigma have to check and then get in contact with me?
Don't want to take the lens out, of it's box, until I'm sure it is not a grey copy.
It took about 3 days for my confirmation email to come through.
I'd use it. I think it would tell you when you registered if it was a grey importThanks for that. Was hoping, it would be immediate, but I'll just have to wait and not use the lens
Why would you not use the lens? ... You can still send it back if it's an import.
It's meant to be nice tomorrow. The grey ones don't have the extended warranty, so it would have told you when you registered.I thought I would not be able to use it. It's a mute point, at the moment anyway, weather has been dreadful.
It's meant to be nice tomorrow. The grey ones don't have the extended warranty, so it would have told you when you registered.
It took about 3 days for my confirmation email to come through.
Good stuff! I'm pretty sure 99% of Amazon stock is UK stock, they probably only got unlucky when only a small amount of non UK lenses made it through their supply chain. All my Siggys from them have been okExtended warranty email confirmation received
You mean as in micro adjust?Has anyone fine tuned their aut0 focus, looked on line last night and watched the official sigma video.
Might be a daft question but if for example at 600mm you set the distance 10metres am I right in assuming to test you would need to take pictures at 10metres
Works well on a d750
You mean as in micro adjust?
Not had to do mine, spot on straight out of the box on all three bodies (as all my lenses have been!)
Mines has been spot on straight out the box. Any focus issues that I have are down to meHas anyone fine tuned their aut0 focus, looked on line last night and watched the official sigma video.
Might be a daft question but if for example at 600mm you set the distance 10metres am I right in assuming to test you would need to take pictures at 10metres
Mines has been spot on straight out the box.
Again, it definitely looks sharper on flickr (to me) than it does when posted to TP
Nice shot, the first of many I'm sure....So it arrived, just as the rain started spitting.............Straight out the box and onto camera, nipped out and this Dunnock was rummaging under the Hawthorn Hedge.
Hand held at 200th of a second, j-peg, SOOC..........I feel I've got to be very happy
Again, it definitely looks sharper on flickr (to me) than it does when posted to TP
Just got to figure out what to do with the dock now!
D7K_1122 by Phil D, on Flickr
Nice shot. But I see what you mean, about Flickr, much sharper image.
I bought a Q strap, and carry it with that.One thing I have realised fairly quickly this evening, I don't like the tripod collar! I do a lot of walking about with the lens strap over mi shoulder, on the 150-500 the collar was big enough to get a good grip for extra security, on the 600 it feels very small in comparison.
Anyone else found the same and done anything about it? There's some 'long lens' carrying handles on e'bay but they go the other way and look a bit bulky................maybe I'll try make sumot
I bought a Q strap, and carry it with that.
No, there's just as much light hitting the *sensor*, it's only stray light from the sides it shields, which is wasted light as it refracts off the front element. That's how you get flare and loss of contrast. It doesn't change the amount of light received by the sensor.Ok I'm slightly shy of asking this question because it probably makes me sound really stupid....
If I have the (massive and deep) lens hood on, surely there is less light hitting the lens as its been tunnelled down the hood rather than hitting it from all angles? And therefor the camera will need a higher iso or smaller f stop or slower ss?
Is that just b*****ks or am I right?
No, there's just as much light hitting the *sensor*, it's only stray light from the sides it shields, which is wasted light as it refracts off the front element. That's how you get flare and loss of contrast. It doesn't change the amount of light received by the sensor.
The hood will always be out of the area of focused light also, otherwise you'd be able to see it
Thank you for taking time to reply to my silly question!
Has anyone plugged their lens into the dock recently?
I'm sure it used to give an option between accurate focus or fast focus but now its just a choice between fastest, standard and smoothest (for movies). Has this changed or is it my imagination?
Isn't smoothest the same as accurate?No one?
Isn't smoothest the same as accurate?