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Review: One month with the Sigma SD Quattro

Started Aug 17, 2016 | User reviews thread
Innocentius Senior Member • Posts: 1,009
Re: Review: One month with the Sigma SD Quattro

mmr wrote:

Oh, no doubt. Don't get me wrong, I've had my share of frustrations shooting like this with the sigmas. I just dislike the idea that because it's hard to shoot kids in the dark, that it's impossible to shoot kids or sports period.

I'll shoot some 500 shots of a basketball game with the olympus, and end up with only about 20-30 keepers. I just can't shoot at that level of frequency, with a high enough iso, at the focal length that makes the shots interesting-- for that use case, sigma clearly falls flat.

Indoor sports like basketball are a niche in the niche of sports photography.

The flickering of the fluorescent tubes wreak havoc if you shoot at shutter times like 1/250. Some are light, others are dark and it is a pain to shoot.

The newer camera's with anti-flicker option surpass this problem, highly recommended.

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