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 p.6 #12 · Sigma 50mm: Marmite Bokeh | |
CKrueger wrote:
mh2000 wrote:
I am completely baffled by the people claiming the Sigma has too smooth a bokeh... worried that somehow a background is going to magically be smeared completely away with a 50mm lens. Stop down to f2 or f2.8 if you think you are getting too much blur. Much easier to deal with smooth than a harsh and busy bokeh.
I think there is an anti-Sigma anti-nonalternative lens bias going on here (honestly, I probably suffer that a little myself... nothing sexy or cool about a Sigma 50/1.4, right?)
Wow, that's exactly what I was going to say. From what you hear here, I would expect if you shot a Canon 50/1.4 next to a Sigma 50/1.4 at f/11, the Sigma's background would like Monet threw up on the background, while the Canon would be razor sharp. Clearly this Sigma has some sort of dark magical power!
Some people here have spent the last few years (and untold thousands of dollars) buying and testing all varieties of exotic lenses to find The Perfect Bokeh. When they find a particularly good lens, they post images with some noisy background thrown out of focus, and other members coo "Look at the bokeh! It's so creamy! Better than that Canon crap the peasants use!"
Fast forward to today, as Sigma releases a 50 with perhaps the creamiest bokeh of all. Sigma!? Perhaps predictably, the nobility staggers for a moment, but quickly regains its composure and comes up with a plan of attack: "The bokeh is too smooth!"
TOO SMOOTH!?
I expected the exotic lens evangelists to find something on the Sigma to attack. Perhaps the "Sigma yellow"? Or Sigma's typical hyper-sensitive AF? Perhaps a build quality] criticism ("eek, I saw plastic!")? Or if all else fails, the old Sigma chipping horrors? But too smooth?
I understand that image quality is completely subjective, but I never expected the faithful to rally around the very quality that they praise in their own lenses. This is a baffling new height of snobbery. It's also a great litmus test to see who here is truly looking for high performance lenses, versus who is just looking for the most exclusive lenses to bring to show & tell.
Sigma should call up Zeiss and ask them if they would like to produce a rebranded version of this lens. They could sell it for $1000 to some folks here.
Yeah! You're all over it.
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