THE wages of sin may be death but the wages of win come in the form of a Sigma 10-20mm f4.0 – 5.6 wide-angle lens. I’ve wanted a wide-angle for a couple of years but the price — $750 for the Canon model — has always been a bit of a sore point. I almost got one last Christmas until I got nicked doing 82 on the 710 and had to pay a $500+ speeding ticket. Oops.

I bought the Sigma for two reasons: 1) it’s $300 cheaper than the Canon, and b) Blunty’s got one and loves it. As he’d recommended the last lens I bought, the Sigma […]

TILT-SHIFT photography is this great way of manipulating the focal plane of your camera to render the world in miniature. It’s not macro, it’s way beyond that, as this video — a time-lapse of Mardi Gras shot using a TS lens — shows:

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

So off to Google I go to see if I can get a tilt-shift for my T1i. Sure enough I can… for $2,490. Ah. I can’t see Ev going for that, for some reason. I could get an adapter for $270. But there is a way of reproducing the effect in Photoshop, so […]

It’s a Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 macro lens which set me back $400. Although I’ve been trying to stick to Canon lenses now I’ve got the T1i, the equivalent of this Sigma — the Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM — would have set me back about a grand, so that was out.

I have to admit to becoming a bit of a lens snob since selling my old Sigma lenses along with my XT and switching to all-Canon glass, but I borrowed this model off Blunty when we were at Witley Court in October and was very impressed. The photos are sharp as a pin, it’s […]