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These aren't artistic by any means, but I tried to show the out of focus areas. I just bought this lens to take with me on an upcoming trip, together with the other two sigmas. I am satisfied with...

Here is one with plenty of bokeh! :) It suffers a bit from camera shake, the speed was 1/30 on my NEX 6 with a Nikon 50mm f1.2, I think it was taken at f1.2. christos

Is there an answer to this? Can one move the spot metering circle away from the center?   Thanks christos

RAW is the original. One does not get rid of the originals. Also, consider this example: You have a RAW file you took 4 years ago, at high ISO. Noise reduction algorithms nowadays are a lot better...

I was also looking forward to the Think Tank Mirrorless, specifically, the largest of the series. Until, that is, I saw a youtube video about it.... I have no idea what they were thinking... They...

Regarding color touch-up on LR: I might have fiddled with the sliders (vibrance) on one of the photos, I don't remember which one.  I could check, if it is important. But in general, the colors are...

Dear All I recently bought a Sony NEX-6 to use when I am out and about for long periods of time because my Nikon D700 is feeling bigger and heavier as years go by! I wanted a lens wider than the...

I've always wondered, being a not so technical person when it comes to this sort of thing, why my Nikon D700 allows me to enter the data of "legacy" lens I am using (all I have to enter is focal...

It seems to me it is a legitimate Sony E and μ4/3 lens...

Rainfall measured in inches is measured by having some sort of cylinder exposed in the rain. Then one measures the height of rain in the cylinder.If one has two cylinders with unequal diameters,...

Thanks to all for suggestions and help!I have not done an exhaustive study yet. I recently acquired a Nikon 20mm f4, and was testing it taking pictures, and then looking at corners of frames at...

The 1:1 crop is from the corner of a shot taken at f22 with an old Nikon 105mm f2.5 PC AI. There's more over the frame, too.I saw something similar, but definitely not the same quantity of black...

Yea, a reverse adapter. I think I have a pentax 50mm f2.0 also left over somewhere. I need to find it and see what sort of macros it takes! Thanks to all.Now I have to go get me an m42 to NEX...

I thought this was a screwmount to pentax K adapter.When I tried to screw it on a takumar, it would not go on freely. Just a 1/4 of a turn, if that. I did not want to force it.I used to use Pentax,...

It is also my experience that the lens is not soft. Even at f1.2 it is not soft, provided of course that the focus is spot-on (easier said than done)!christos

I like my 50 f1.2.  Yes, the background can be a little busy, but that is in part, i think, due to the focal length. If you want a softer background, everything else being equal, you probably...

It is a clean picture! I can't get such clean pictures with my NEX-6 even at ISO 400. Was it a jpg or did you process a raw file? If the latter, would you mind explaining your...

perhaps you should go to your party HQ and have some tea...christos

Thank you all for the replies... I am tending towards the nikon, mainly because of its size.  In one of the links provided above, the sigma is shown mounted on a canon 5d II, and it looks...