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Sigma Endless and Forever

Started Oct 26, 2019 | User reviews thread
mike earussi Veteran Member • Posts: 9,440
It was the best of cameras, it was the worse of cameras.
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I've owned four bodies, and it's both the best and worse Sigma camera I ever had.

Best in that it was the only camera that ever produced absolutely noise free skies and shadows when shot at iso 50. Once the shot was color balanced it produced the cleanest clearest photos I've ever had.

https://pbase.com/mikeearussi/sd14_iso_50

Worse in build quality (one brand new body had the mirror fall out after a few weeks use), horrible AF and MF as the mirror wasn't aligned accurately enough to even MF (when I complained to a Sigma repair tech about the misaligned mirror he told me that the mirror was just to aid in composition , not to be used for focus, but if the AF isn't accurate either then what do you do?).

Plus every shot had to be color balanced to remove that strong yellow/green cast. Add to that the very slow processing time and you have a real PITA camera body.

The SD15 fixed most of these problems (the AF still sucked) but at the expense of adding a lot of noise to the picture.

My hope is that the new FF body will have the clean zero noise look of the SD14 with none of its flaws. We'll see.

 mike earussi's gear list:mike earussi's gear list
Sigma SD1 Merrill Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM | A Sigma 24-35mm F2 DG HSM Art +2 more
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