{"id":1125,"date":"2008-08-11T03:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2008-08-11T03:40:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:40:36","slug":"17-to-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"17 to 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filler with the Sigma 17-35mm F2.8-4 EX.<\/p>\n


\nIt has good separation but poor rendition of contrasty out-of-focus highlights especially with trees.<\/p>\n


\nGood color, albeit with traces of Sigma yellow. (And this is at 2500K mind you.) Patrick took this picture!<\/p>\n


\n50cm minimum focus distance can be annoyingly far, but this lens harked back to film days. The later Sigma 17-35mm F2.8-4 EX DG was fixed for digital sensors and didn’t produce internal flare. Then again, internal flare is a rare occurence to me and where I shoot.<\/p>\n


\n35mm.<\/p>\n


\nPoled.<\/p>\n


\nWith a 2x teleconverter to make 70mm F8.0. I like the stippled bokeh effect.<\/p>\n

This is, unfortunately, the only zoom lens I have in the ‘standard’ range – the other is the Vivitar Series 1 28-105mm F2.8-3.8. The 17-35mm, being a ultra wide-angle lens on full-frame, is chunky and rather big to be a everyday lens.<\/p>\n

Many a time I wished I had a APS-C lens like the Sony Carl Zeiss 16-80mm F3.5-4.5 DT or the Tamron 17-50mm F2.8. Of course, my cash is prioritized to other ranges so this won’t get replaced all too soon. Kinda like how I had the Sony 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 DT kit lens for a very long time, since it wasn’t in a critical range – I’d want something wide to normal and normal to tele instead. Based on this philosophy, my ideal APS-C range would have the Tamron 10-24mm F3.5-4.5, Sony 35mm F1.4G and Sigma 50-150mm F2.8 EX DG II HSM or Sony 24-105mm F3.5-4.5. I could shoot with just one lens each day and not feel like I wish I brought the other lens!<\/p>\n

Oh and Alphanatics<\/a> is up! I should mention it since the Sony Alpha 9th August 2008 seminar… which also launched the site, of which I am one of the site admins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filler with the Sigma 17-35mm F2.8-4 EX. It has good separation but poor rendition of contrasty out-of-focus highlights especially with trees. Good color, albeit with traces of Sigma yellow. (And this is at 2500K mind you.) Patrick took this picture! 50cm minimum focus distance can be annoyingly far, but this lens harked back to film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}