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Lenses and color reproduction

Started Dec 11, 2015 | Polls thread
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Re: Lenses and color reproduction

Scott Larson wrote:

Older Sigma lenses are notorious for having a "warm" color. Their elements have a brown appearance that I've read is from the coating. The front element of my old Sigma 17-35mm looks like a brown bubble. I kind of liked the warm look for shooting indoors with a flash but outdoor shots tended to look slightly warm and needed correction.

Makes me think that Sigma did this on purpose. I found slightly orange UV-filters on several "antique" lenses from the film days. Makes kind of sense to give all images a nice warm look, if your possibilities for color-correction are so limited.

I remember my first Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 also had a green bias when shot wide open.

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