{"id":164,"date":"2004-05-22T22:40:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:24:24","slug":"sigma_28-300mm_compact_hyperzoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/05\/22\/sigma_28-300mm_compact_hyperzoom.php","title":{"rendered":"Sigma 28-300mm Compact Hyperzoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent purchase of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/nikkor_70300_g_lens.php\">Nikkor 70-300mm<\/a> lens &#8211; which was intended as a cheap way to find out if I would like a zoom lens &#8211; I now purchased an upgrade on this based on my experience with it &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaphoto.com\/html\/pages\/28_300CHZ.htm\">Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Nikkor is a good lens though it suffers from heavy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/learn\/?\/Glossary\/Optical\/Chromatic_Aberrations_01.htm\">Chromatic Aberrations<\/a>, especially at 300mm and in high contrast areas.  The problem with a 70-300mm lens is that it does not start wide enough for holiday or walk about type shots, I often found myself wanting to change lens to my 18-70mm to get certain objects in frame that was too close or too big.<br \/>\nThe 28-300mm is a good middle ground lens, I used it a bit today and found that I was unable to produce any CA and that I was not tempted to swap to a wider lens ever.  Lens swapping on DSLR&#8217;s are notorious for getting dust on the CCD which requires rather scary cleaning using expensive CO2 based systems or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/copperhill\/ccd_cleaning\">cleaning swabs<\/a>.  The 28-300mm gives the equivalent of a 10x magnification when quoted in the typical digital camera speak.  The lens was a bit hard to find, but eventually I found a dealer with stock and paid &pound;200 for it.<br \/>\nView the full entry for a photo of the lens, also my first attempt at a studio type shot using some black cloth and a desk lamp, will need to get some velvet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/sigma-28-300.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent purchase of the Nikkor 70-300mm lens &#8211; which was intended as a cheap way to find out if I would like a zoom lens &#8211; I now purchased an upgrade on this based on my experience with it &#8211; the Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom. The Nikkor is a good lens though it suffers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}