Sigma 17-70 Lens

I saw someone mention this lens in the forum the other day and have been looking into it as it has a good price tag! (cheap)

Ive searched the forum and seen quite a few people say the lens is good but I was about to buy one and saw it was a macro. I already have the Canon 100m Macro so am I wasting my time buying the Sigma?

As some of you prob already know I keep changing my mind with buying my new lens so bear with me! Im being a right pain in the behind but my budget went down a little and my needs! lol

Does anyone have any sample shots as well?

Thankyou Sarah

have a look on PBASE.COM

Here some

http://www.photography​-on-the.net …231369&highligh​t=sigma+17

http://www.photography​-on-the.net …hlight=sigma+17​-70+sample

I love my 17-70, it's good for the price....Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it.

verty wrote in post #2192174
have a look on PBASE.COM

Thanks...there are some portraits on there that look pretty sharp.

OneTime wrote in post #2192203
Here some

http://www.photography​-on-the.net …231369&highligh​t=sigma+17

http://www.photography​-on-the.net …hlight=sigma+17​-70+sample

I love my 17-70, it's good for the price....Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it.

Oh fabulous.

thanks for the link to that thread

There is more, but I can't seem to find them.

OneTime wrote in post #2192221
There is more, but I can't seem to find them.

Saw quite a few shots on there and it looks a pretty good lens.!

I've got this lens and I have to say I quite like it. 'Quite' means also 'hard to say' as I do not have any other standard Canon zoom lenses to compare. I bought it because of the limited resources and I think it delivers good value for money. Macro is an additional treat which means you can focus from as close as 20cm. Below is a wee flower for you to look at. This has been shot with Sigma 17-70 in RAW and converted to jpg using Canon DPP software.
Flower (1MB)

The lens is quite fast but I would not say as fast as USM.
Some people complain about Sigma’s quality control which means that you may need some luck to get a decent item
Look at this review as well:
SIGMA 17-70 Review
I found it quit informative and there are example full size images included.
The only issue I have so far is some problem with Speedlite 430EX. When I use it in auto ZOOM mode the flash zoom tends to hunt sometimes. I have asked about it on SIGMA user forum but do not have an answer yet. It may be a compatibility problem. I am not too bothered as I rarely use direct flash anyway.
Additionally the lens is brighter than more expensive Canon 17-85. I don’t think there is an alternative for cropped sensor EOS cameras in terms of standard zoom lenses.
Considering pros and cons personally I would recommend it.
Hope this is useful.

Here's a potrait taken with said lens. I'm really pleased with my copy.
BTW, I've not performed any PP sharpening on this so you can see straight out of lens IQ:

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adysko wrote in post #2194936
I've got this lens and I have to say I quite like it. 'Quite' means also 'hard to say' as I do not have any other standard Canon zoom lenses to compare. I bought it because of the limited resources and I think it delivers good value for money. Macro is an additional treat which means you can focus from as close as 20cm. Below is a wee flower for you to look at. This has been shot with Sigma 17-70 in RAW and converted to jpg using Canon DPP software.
Flower (1MB)

The lens is quite fast but I would not say as fast as USM.
Some people complain about Sigma’s quality control which means that you may need some luck to get a decent item
Look at this review as well:
SIGMA 17-70 Review
I found it quit informative and there are example full size images included.
The only issue I have so far is some problem with Speedlite 430EX. When I use it in auto ZOOM mode the flash zoom tends to hunt sometimes. I have asked about it on SIGMA user forum but do not have an answer yet. It may be a compatibility problem. I am not too bothered as I rarely use direct flash anyway.
Additionally the lens is brighter than more expensive Canon 17-85. I don’t think there is an alternative for cropped sensor EOS cameras in terms of standard zoom lenses.
Considering pros and cons personally I would recommend it.
Hope this is useful.

That lily pictures is gorgeous! Im thinking to maybe sell my 100mm canon if the sigma performs this well.

Thankyou

burchy wrote in post #2196889
Here's a potrait taken with said lens. I'm really pleased with my copy.
BTW, I've not performed any PP sharpening on this so you can see straight out of lens IQ:

well from everything ive seen it looks good.

Just worried about the 'getting a good copy' issue:S

MagicallyDelicious wrote in post #2196965
well from everything ive seen it looks good.

Just worried about the 'getting a good copy' issue:S

Yeah, whatever you do just don't get one from 47th St Photo. I just returned one to them. I had it over the weekend and it was horrible. When I asked them for a replacement, they told me that was the only one they had. So I had to return for refund and getting hitted 15% restocking fee and loose $20 in shipping + had to pay to ship this back to them.

I picked one up last w/e and so far am pretty impressed. I go tmine from Jessops and got them to price match it so I fot it for 225 GBP. The macro function is alot of fun - you can get so close the lens starts to shadow the subject!!

It will turn out to be a good purchase I have no doubt about that,,, I got mine off fleabay and in total came to £198 inc postage from dubai, it took 2 days to get to UK then normal delivery time on top so it should have took 3 days but I had a weekend in between so still got her within 5.

I only have the kit lens to compare against and it obviously is 100x better, I love using it and hope to learn alot in the coming months.

Gav

gsewell wrote in post #2197044
It will turn out to be a good purchase I have no doubt about that,,, I got mine off fleabay and in total came to £198 inc postage from dubai, it took 2 days to get to UK then normal delivery time on top so it should have took 3 days but I had a weekend in between so still got her within 5.

I only have the kit lens to compare against and it obviously is 100x better, I love using it and hope to learn alot in the coming months.

Gav

I was gonna get mine via a company I have gotten lenses off before via HK....whats the fleabay username you used?