Tag: News
RRPs of Sigma lenses for Sony E, interesting interview with Kazuto Yamaki and firmware update for MC-11
Once again there are several news stories regarding Sigma – even though none of them is as exciting as the one last time – which makes it very hard to come up with a short title. 🙂 The most important piece of news is undoubtedly the one regarding disclosure of RRPs of the recently announced ...
Sigma patents multiple lenses for compact camera and micro 4/3
Since CES 2018, the largest consumer electronics fair, is taking place at the moment, I was eager to learn more about the mystery 50mm lens shown on Sigma’s current roadmap. In case you are interested you can read more about it here. The way it looks like at the moment, Sigma wants to announce all ...
“People Matching Artworks”
By chance I came across the photographer Stefan Draschan some days ago, a man who obviously spends a lot of time in the museums I also enjoy visiting every now and then. On his blog “People Matching Artworks”, the Austrian photographer presents photos where people form a symbiotic relationship with the pictures. Do the colors ...
I’m back!
One and a half years ago several blows of fate had forced me to give up my beloved hobbies – blogging as well as photography. Like many people tend to approach such situations, I had also given up on everything non-essential and focused upon the truly important things in life. Since I stopped blogging, Tamara ...
Subway romance photographed by Andre D. Wagner
If you live in a big city as I do and depend on using public transport almost every day, this often won’t be part of the things you enjoy in your everyday life. Subways, trams and buses have left a rather bad impression on me over the past few years. Either they’re overcrowded or they ...
The interplay of painting and photography
Hey everyone! Today I want to take you on a little tour through the history of Arts. In this post I’ll focus on the beginnings of photography and its interplay with the art of painting. Since the advent of photography around 1830, photographers and painters considered themselves competitors. Nevertheless there were always mutual influences. In ...
From a bird’s eye view over a creative table
Taking pictures of food with your smartphone, finding the right position for your coffee or arranging flowers nicely – that’s how you best prepare the well-known “flat lays” for taking a perfect shot from above. So today I’d like to take you on a tour through the creation of nicely arranged flat lays. But what ...
People change. PLACES AS WELL.
I’m sure everyone of you knows that feeling. Those places from our childhood we used to visit once or perhaps more often and of which we have a very clear picture in our minds. An image so clear as if it had been yesterday. Maybe there was that incredibly beautiful spot by the river one ...
SIGMA NEWS
The popular SIGMA lens with a focus length of 24-70mm (https://www.sigma-foto.de/objektive/24-70mm-f28-dg-os-hsm-art/uebersicht/) and an aperture of f/2.8 has finally made it into the fourth generation of the Art series after it was given a general overhaul and completely redeveloped. For a couple of weeks now the recommended retail price of this lens has been announced and ...
New firmware updates for lenses
A few days ago SIGMA published new firmware updates for lenses. The four new editions are models with Canon EF and Sigma SA mounts. The updates are said to have led to improvements concerning the auto-focus as well as to a reduction of the operating noise of the shutter lamellae. Sigma has published firmware updates ...
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