Sigma SD14 - Bee & Flower

[drg]

The Sigma SD14 test camera arrived Monday and I've have started to make photographs. This was one of the first 100 images I made with the camera with a 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 lens. This is cropped, but not sharpened beyond the AUTO parameters of ADOBE Lightroom for the Sigma RAW conversion.

High noon (severe clear/not great light) wind and I just fired off a few shots on Program mode to see what I'd get. I'm still shooting for color and exposure to see how this unit responds.

[Loupey]

Thanks for posting this example. I understand that it's cropped and not sharpened in post processing, but I'm surprised that the hairs on the flower aren't sharper. In program mode, the shutter speed had to have been fairly high.

Please post more in the future with this equipment. Thanks again.

[drg]

The shutter speed was 1/200th. There was a fair amount of wind moving everything including the bee!

I am still shooting for color primarily (this was one of the first 100 shots I made with the camera).

Sigmas are notorious for needing LOTS of PostProcessing sharpening! I'll tweak a version of this up later along with a few others just for the Nature forum.

Check out the corn flower image also posted in the gallery of Sigma images. Now that one is sharp for having nothing done to it. I didn't post it here as other than at full size it doesn't work real well as a photo. This is another primarily color test shot, but I got a fly too!

Here's the link for the SD14 gallery, which I also posted in the viewfinder forum.

http://gallery.photographyreview.com...ASigma+SD14%7C