04-18-2014, 11:31 AM
@ dave's clichés: Do you really need to bring military slang into a beautiful art? To me it never feels I kill somebody when turning a camera towards the person.
And let's face it: Otus is already working and always will, due to it's electronically simple design. While Nikon spoilt the fun out of some Sigma lenses by just updating camera firmware. As well as we don't know yet, how it will perform on Nikon, the first tests are on Canons. I do expect higher DxO marks on a D800E and then the combination of Sigma and Nikon will have a higher score than Otus and Canon 5DIII - compared by the numbers. Might become funny or boring to read those battles then..
Or in other words: Sigma and Nikon together have the same price as an Otus without a body behind.
Last Sigma I bought has the annoying flaw of pretending to be a Nikon Macro lens towards the camera. This is a minor thing, but when it comes to AF work and I want to use both lenses, I need to switch off focus adjustment. Not very cool.
And let's face it: Otus is already working and always will, due to it's electronically simple design. While Nikon spoilt the fun out of some Sigma lenses by just updating camera firmware. As well as we don't know yet, how it will perform on Nikon, the first tests are on Canons. I do expect higher DxO marks on a D800E and then the combination of Sigma and Nikon will have a higher score than Otus and Canon 5DIII - compared by the numbers. Might become funny or boring to read those battles then..
Or in other words: Sigma and Nikon together have the same price as an Otus without a body behind.
Last Sigma I bought has the annoying flaw of pretending to be a Nikon Macro lens towards the camera. This is a minor thing, but when it comes to AF work and I want to use both lenses, I need to switch off focus adjustment. Not very cool.