I have a Sigma 35 1.4 art. I don't use it for landscapes, but I can tell you it's a very sharp lens, once calibrated, you really need to consider the Sigma dock or some other form of reliable calibration tuning for them.
It's also a heavy old thing as well!
Do you plan to shoot landscapes at f1.4? If not why buy a f1.4 lens to shoot at slower apertures?
I had the lens on a-mount. It's very sharp and overall really nice lens.
I didn't have the sigma dock because I just used the incamera calibration which worked just fine for a prime. Dock is probably more useful for zooms.
Sorry but you are wrong.
The art lenses are generally out different amounts at different distances. So the dock is very useful.
Can't say I had an issue. Only had to set it to -1 on the camera and it worked just fine.
Having never used sigma dock how does it compensate for different focus distances? Can you set a different amount of calibration for close focus and infinity?
all food for thought, was only toying with the idea but the more think about it the more I think you're right, just a bit of GAS i think. Given that I have the canon 16-35 its a daft idea I know.
thanks all.
all food for thought, was only toying with the idea but the more think about it the more I think you're right, just a bit of GAS i think. Given that I have the canon 16-35 its a daft idea I know.
thanks all.
its the f4 Keith, was also thinking about some astro and night stuff - painting with light etc.
I will use the 16 to 35 @ 35 for a while and see. plenty of time to write that letter to Santa yet!
I have 16-35/2.8, 24-70/2.8 and still bought a 35/1.4.
The 34/1.4 is a different beast to the other lenses, it is however a skill onto itself to make full use of it. It is a skill to know what looks good for 35mm and how to make 35mm work for all kinds of situations.