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Thrift store Sigma 28/2.8 mini-wide macro lens
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Comfortably Numb....?

Actually, there was a local jazz band from years back who had to be all half-cut before they could play anything remotely resembling jazz. Laughing


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wink Smile

About the band, some are rusty Tin Men till their joints are oiled! LOL


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Tin Men from New Orleans I presume?

Funny how some of the best music ever written and played, was all done under the influence of drink, drugs or a combination of both.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
More test shots, the first two in the thread were at f5.6.

f2.8, wide open:





cat at f4:



Bill


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Macromeister Bill strikes again - wonderful 3D quality. Cool


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Now a guy has to wonder what OTHER sleeping Sigmas from that era are hanging around waiting to be discovered."

I have one - a Sigma 200/3.5 Macro (well, it doesn't do 1:1) from the same series, you would see the two (that and the 28 Mini-wide) in the same lens ad line-up back then. This one went so far as to have TWO focusing helicals to get more macro, one of them an internal-element focus like later zooms.

But this lens was always disappointing, flare was bad and quality was not very good. I have been prejudiced against it for thirty years.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey I have that lens. I have to shoot wide open til I fix extra lever
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wasn't look a good deal , sorry ! Plain like an AF kit lens.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
bob955i wrote:
Macromeister Bill strikes again - wonderful 3D quality. Cool


Thanks, Bob! Smile

Attila, it's pretty tough to get a good shot wide open on a sunny day. I
tried a little PP with Rick's shot:



But it is way overexposed to do much about. And Rick, I can take this
down if you like.

Bill


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sigma lens catalog from the 1970's -

http://forum.xitek.com/showarchives.php?threadid=366376

The whole Sigma "XQ" lens lineup. Scroll down, the actual catalog is not in Chinese.

Its got the close-focusing emphasis fully developed, though this was I think the generation before the Mini-Wide, or my 200mm, though mine is a "Scalematic" also. The later lenses were more compact than these. All these lenses used the YS generic mount, which was gone later.

Note the 135/1.8 and 200/2.8


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Luis, thanks for the link!

Bill


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I happen to see a lens in Contax mount as a “Sigma 28/2.8 mini wide II” Would this lens be the same? I notice the filter size is 52mm.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bruce wrote:
I happen to see a lens in Contax mount as a “Sigma 28/2.8 mini wide II” Would this lens be the same? I notice the filter size is 52mm.


Yes, that would be the one, the close-focusing capability is awesome!


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Bill, It's currently in the mail… courtesy of KEH.
Now if I could just borrow your trigger finger?


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks lot better Bill.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah looks a lot better. Louis thanks for the link. Very Happy


PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Beautiful Cool


PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bill, do you have any advice on your workflow for your superb macro shots? I don't mean "workflow" on Photoshop or other program -- rather, I meanh workflow in taking the image. Any tricks, especially on trying to get the focus AND the exposure AND the composition to all come together?

Man, I could look at the images you are producing ALL DAY. Cool


PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Larry, I'm probably doing everything wrong since these are all handheld
shots, most of what I do is by the seat of my pants or instinctive. But will
try to see if I can break down the process. Let me give it some thought. I
do a lot of framing the pictures at different angles before snapping away,
and use different apertures to see which I like better.

I''ll try for something more meaningful, soon. Thanks for your kind comments.

Bill


PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Larry, just reviewing all those wonderful Yashicamat pictures of yours, you
certainly don't have a problem with comp! Once you get going with macros,
you'll knock these little pics of mine right off the wall! That one you did with
the red and white mushroom, nothing wrong with the comp there, just
exquisite!

I've done some macro stuff with the Kowa, haven't finished the roll, so am
hoping they come out OK. If they aren't half bad, I'll probably spring for
the #5 and #10 filters by B+W. They will be expensive since the filter size
is 67mm! Shocked

Bill


PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just found one in Milano also in Nikon mount, need to try that one out, too...geez, serious GAS (aka "Gear Akquisition Syndrome") infection...

Cheers,

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kds315* wrote:
Just found one in Milano also in Nikon mount, need to try that one out, too...geez, serious GAS infection...


I had no idea that Gallium Arsenide was infections Embarassed


PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stupid question: did Sigma outsourced some lenses from other makers such Kiron, Komine, ... as Vivitar did ?


PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:18 pm    Post subject: "for fujica" Reply with quote
I have a Sigma Mini-Wide f2.8 I got with a Pentax manual KX long ago, that doesn't fit the camera.
It has a tiny sticker on the lens "FOR-FUJICA" and the rear lens cap says FUJICA
And it's time to sort out the old stuff.

What can I do with this?


PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:39 pm    Post subject: Re: "for fujica" Reply with quote
hank wrote:
I have a Sigma Mini-Wide f2.8 I got with a Pentax manual KX long ago, that doesn't fit the camera.
It has a tiny sticker on the lens "FOR-FUJICA" and the rear lens cap says FUJICA
And it's time to sort out the old stuff.

What can I do with this?


Hello hank, welcome to the forum. As far as your lens is concerned, has it a screw or bayonet mount? If screw, it will be compatible with most M42 mount cameras and if bayonet, it will only fit Fujica's own bayonet mount cameras. If it is of no use to you why not try selling it on eBay?
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