Marks Wasted Time: Primal 50

Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Primal 50

So, for the first time in quite a while, I have a new lens!
With less landscapey pics going on at the moment and not being able to afford any kind of prime 600mm wildlife lens, it is my second prime lens purchase (to go along with my Canon 135mm f/2.0) .. a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art series lens.

So.. since I swapped to a full frame sensor, my 16-35 is now super wide, even at 35mm ... and I miss some of the old ~25-50mm range that the lens had on my old APS-C sensor (1.6x crop factor).

This new beast is also f/1.4, so super fast, even compared to my f/2,8 lenses - which I always considered reasonably fast anyway. The pay off for being super quick, super sharp and super sexy? Weight! It feels like a solid block of metal - since surely not even glass can weigh this much?!

Anyway, all that lovely sharp quickness (no-one said this was going to be a technical review!) is going to be just perfect for street wandering, event snapping, wedding capturing and low light gathering.

See full size demo image below of Weston-Super-Mare pier for sharpness at f/8.

I'm off to start saving for a 600mm prime wildlife lens!....

ISO100, 50mm, f/8, 1/200s

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Whos wasted time?

My name is Mark Coombes, I live in the South of England, near the City of Bath. I'm 42 and have a deep passion for all things photographic. I always had some artistic talent, but never had the patience for most art forms, so digital photography suits me down to the ground.

I was given a Canon 1000F for my 18th birthday with some old Sigma lenses, but really only got serious in 2006 when I bought a 350D. My equipment went from 17-85mm, 100-300mm IS and Sigma 105mm Macro, to a 16-35mm II L and 100-400mm L thanks to some serious saving and in 2010 I upgraded to a Canon 50D, before finally investing in a Canon 5D mark III in 2013. Since then I've added various flashes, flash modifiers, filters, polarisers, tripods and a Canon 135mm f/2 lens.

I tend to photograph anything and everything that I find photogenic, combined with my passion for adventure and exploration most of my photos are happy coincidences, rather than the odd planned or staged effort. If I was to pick one specific area to specialise in it would be wildlife photography, especially now I'm getting out for less sunrise landscapes. Only time will tell where it leads and if anything productive ever comes out of it, or if I am just wasting time..