All these shots were taken on Thursday,
March 9, 2006. I ordered my third lens (including the
kit lens) on March 1, 2006 from Sigma
4 Less, and chose
the long shipping time so I could get it for under $10
(shipping only). UPS came so damn late; I got the lens
at around 6:00 PM - which really irked me. I started
taking photos right away. The lens is unbelievable. It's
a great walk around lens, and doubles as a great macro
lens too. I basically bought it to replace the kit lens,
and it does that in two ways - it covers a greater field
and its aperture can get as big as f/2.8, a very good
deal for under $375. Say hello to the new standard, enjoy. |
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The four hour late box. This picture didn't come out to well...
let's just say I won't really miss the kit lens that much.... |
And they put stuff in it. Marvelous. An awful big box for a
lens, don't you think? |
Ah, that explains it. Yah, I bought a cleaning kit too -
you should always have one of those. |
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And the box where my newest lens sits in. A pretty ugly box
too. |
It opens like every other damn box, even uglier on the
inside.
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Instruction manual...? Okay. I'm not going to even think
about reading one of those; damn, I just did. |
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The packaging of the lens. |
Well, would you look at that. It came with a flower hood...
very nice. |
See, now I can block out light when I don't want it, very
cool. (Don't you love the enthusiasm?) |
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It looks like a rather small lens, but dude, it's soo not.
I didn't take a photo ('til the very end here) of it
at 70mm, but it extends almost two inches. |
The front without the hood. Had to throw on flash to get the
extra light. That reminds me, I want to buy a flash, haha. |
I think this lens looks really nice. |
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Okay, here we go, attached to the camera and with the flower
hood on (taken with my P600,
hence the bad quality - haha). |
Another shot of the lens on the 350d. |
And yet another close up of the front of the lens, yet this
time it's attached, and taken with another camera. |
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I'm not really sure what the point of this photo was, it doesn't
provide us with anything - I just decided to throw it in. |
Alright, here is the right side with the flower hood at 17mm. |
Now the right side without the flower hood at 17mm, and no
- there is no profile at 70mm, sorry. |
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Front of the lens attached to camera with the flower hood at
17mm... and flash.
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The front of the lens without a flower hood at 17mm, no flash.
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Here's the left side of the lens attached with the flower head
at 17mm... |
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And then without the flower hood, at 17mm. |
This lens can get rather close - I went up to a mirror (obviously)
and got pretty close... and yes, my hair is in a pony tail,
it gets in my way sometimes, haha. |
Just a random one of my tripod at 70mm. |
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At 70mm, I was able to get rather close to this light switch.
I could've gotten closer, but the lens was getting in the
way of my light source ;). |
And then a random picture of the box, shunned away into the
corner. |
A macro shot with just the 17-70mm, at 70mm. I am really
liking this lens. |
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This is the only real 70mm profile I have of the lens, taken
with my P600 on timer. I was able to get rather close to
the hood and take the next photo: |
See how the lens gets in the way of my light? This is truly
a great lens.
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And then just a shot of the other shot being reviewed on my
P600.
This was a very great buy.
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