Photos and experience with the 105mm OS macro lens

I received a 105mm macro OS lens yesterday, I'm going to test the lens in nature. .. so far just a completely ordinary "first shot"
At first glance, the lens has great detail, excellent colors, contrast and sharpness. It is of reasonable weight, it works well. I think he's great!
What is your experience with this lens? Your use of the lens for landscape? And photos please

Thank you and I look forward to many contributions. I am very interested in this lens, its use, its quality. Test 105mm macro OS on sigma SD1 Merrill here:
https://www.camerastuffreview.com/en/sigma-105-macro-review-sd1-merrill/
Peter Slovakia.

Thank you for your quick response.
Maybe the collar would be good for macro, but on the other hand the lens for the landscape is not heavy, it's like an 18-35mm lens, also in size. All other macro lenses have a collar (150mm, 180mm), but these are heavy! BTW, the sharpness of the picture without sharpening.
Do you have a landscape photo with a 105mm OS lens?
Peter

Yes, Rick .. e.g. Martin Koeberle, stativschelen.de

This lens seems to me to be very good and useful, as LarryJ has shown in the past, it is possible to photograph nature with it when a different perspective is needed.

Peter

Yes, I'm interested in close-up photos, that's exactly what I'll use this lens for often, but also for the landscape. Similar to a 70 mm lens. 70mm lens more for macro.

On these lenses, I like that they have a flat windshield, so they are sharp from one corner to the other. That's a big plus. Edges / corners will never be soft or blurred. I don't like blurred corners 

Does anyone else have photos with a 105mm macro OS lens?
Please publish.

Here are three.

Don

I've been thinking of getting that lens, a 40mm f1.4 Art, and a 135mm f1.8 Art to finish building my collection of SA mount prime lenses. Of course, since the 105 is less expensive, that would be the first one to get. I'm very interested to read your comments and see your sample photos . . . and thank you for starting this thread. Maybe it will motivate me to finally get this lens, which I have been wanting for some time Peter.

Thank you Don!
The first photo is a nice classic! .. it's a close-up photo and I like it the most (not macro). The second and third photos characterize the city (where do you live?) .. and something of nature?
How are you photographed with 105 OS? How do you rate the quality of the lens?
Thanks, Don, for the post, feel free to add some more photos with the 105mm OS lens.
I aligned the lens with the body of the SD1 Merrill (finally AFMA +2), the tree has improved in the depth of the field, so I will publish it again, if you allow, only so that the change for the better can be seen.The setting sun creates beautiful colors! I love reddish greenery.
Peter

Hi Peter: Here are a few flower shots with the 105 mm Macro lens. I will look through my archive and see if I can find a few landscape images done with the 105.

The last shot is a three exposure composite using focus blending, hand held using the 105 mm macro lens.

Good shooting and good light!

Thank you LarryJ for the beautiful photos.

It can be seen that you often use the 105mm lens for flowers and that is the highest purpose of this lens .. flowers are a very grateful topic, I will definitely take more pictures of them in the future than before. For the last 15 years I have focused more on the country (Pentax 67II), but times are changing.
With 70mm and 105mm OS lenses, we "conjure up" a number of beautiful photos of flowers or lands in the light of the setting sun, when everything is beautifully reddish. We still have everything in front of us, the main thing is taste and plenty of time.
Thank you LarryJ for sharing your photos, if you find more, feel free to publish them here, I will be happy .. I will contribute as I get new photos.

Peter

Larry, every one of those flowers looks like it had water droplets on it. Do you carry a spray bottle with you, and spray water on them before shooting photos of them?

A couple more.

Don

Thank you for your contribution    This is a correct comment.

The 105mm macro OS lens is also a compromise for me, but for a different reason than the macro .. I bought it because I didn't find another lightweight 100mm lens on the SD1 Merrill for landscape. I don't necessarily have to have a 1: 1 macro. I need more photos up close and landscape. In addition, 150mm and 180mm lenses are heavy and I want to avoid that (I have one heavy 50-100mm Art lens and that's enough)
For close-up and macro photos, I will use a 70mm and 105mm lens.
I compare a 105mm OS lens with a 50-100mm (100mm) lens to know if these lenses are replaceable .. I also check the even sharpness of the new 105mm OS lens. I don't like lenses that are soft in the corners.

Thanks, Peter.

WOW .. these are great photos, Don!
I recognized the spider right away, but I don't know exactly what drops are in the first photo, which has such beautiful bright colors. The photo of the spider is alive - but the spider is disgusting 
Don, why did you give F13? I wouldn't have the courage to go through F8 .. F9

Thanks Don    Peter

Peter Slovakia wrote:

WOW .. these are great photos, Don!
I recognized the spider right away, but I don't know exactly what drops are in the first photo, which has such beautiful bright colors. The photo of the spider is alive - but the spider is disgusting
Don, why did you give F13? I wouldn't have the courage to go through F8 .. F9

Thanks Don Peter

The first photo is a soap bubble.

You can stop down as far as you like for macro, because you need the depth of field. There are good sharpening programs around to deal with the diffraction.

Both shots lit by flash.

Don

Thank you for the explanation Don .. I considered the spider more as a close-up photo .. I dare not guess the proximity of the lens in this photo but it's a nice photo, "caught the spider"
Peter

danski0224 wrote:

Peter Slovakia wrote:

Yes, I'm interested in close-up photos, that's exactly what I'll use this lens for often, but also for the landscape. Similar to a 70 mm lens. 70mm lens more for macro.

On these lenses, I like that they have a flat windshield, so they are sharp from one corner to the other. That's a big plus. Edges / corners will never be soft or blurred. I don't like blurred corners

Does anyone else have photos with a 105mm macro OS lens?
Please publish.

The longer macro lenses allow you to get a little further away, which can be helpful.

As I understand it, due to the extending design, the 70mm macro (old one and Art) and the 105mm (old one) both retain more of their focal length as one approaches 1:1 in comparison to an "inner focusing" (non-extending) macro lens. The newer EX series 105, 150 and 180mm macro lenses are all inner focusing.

I like the 70 because it is very light, but at 1:1, the lens is usually quite close to the subject.

The 150 is a nice compromise between the heavy 180 and the sometimes not long enough 105 that's also missing the tripod collar.

There's also the 1.4x teleconverter.

Sigma still lacks extension tubes...

Just remove the lens element from the 1.4x and you have an extension tube. That's what I do, it's very easy.