still life # 13 ~ slice of life
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 01:48PM 
Sunflower and gourds • click to embiggenSo I've been screwing around, photography-wise, for a couple of weeks now with my new 25mm f2.8 lens. In fact, it hasn't been off of my camera since I got it.
Considering that 90% or more of my picturing over the past 2-3 years has been done with a 11-22mm lens, I have had no trouble at all "seeing" with a much reduced field of view. Picturing with a normal-ish lens is what I did in my 8×10 view camera days and that MO seems to have come back to me somewhat intuitively.
My only dis-satisfaction with the lens is that I would like even more narrow DOF than its 2.8 aperture creates. Sigma makes a 24mm f1.8 lens that would probably deliver the look I am striving for .... although, I'll be perfectly honest - I'm not exactly certain what it is that I want to accomplish with this narrow DOF stuff.
I think it has something to do with "mystery".
Reader Comments (2)
Gearhead! haha. Hey we all do it eventually.
Can't comment on the 24/1.8, but the 20/1.8 and the 28/1.8 are very fine lenses. The nicest feature of these Sigma f1.8 primes is, that they focus almost down to the front lens, thus their "Macro" designation is no false claim. I love them, both of them, although the 20/1.8 is even more spectacular in that regard.
The minimum focus distance of the 24/1.8 is 18cm from the sensor plane. Subtract 8cm for the physical length of the lens, add the focal length of 24mm, that's equivalent to a minimum focusing distance of only 124mm on film. At f1.8 you'll get pretty shallow DOF and some really impressive perspectives, I guess :)