Steveo_Hants
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Excuse my ignorance but can someone please explain the price difference of about £145 between these two? What is the difference betweeen DC and DG?
Sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM v Sigma 12-24mm EX DG
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Agreed. If you have a crop body (as you do if you've got the D50) then the 10-20 is probably your best bet if you want to go super wide. I'm very pleased with mine, excellent piece of kit.
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The 10-20 has a massive following for a reason - for a budget lens (it's around the cheapest in the super-wide group) its an amazing lens. You can get some really quality photo's from it.
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Thats made my mind up then! I am looking to buy a D80 very soon but that is crop anyway so its all good!
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You won't regret the D80 either - it's a fabulous piece of kit. My partner has got the D200 which she's very competent with, but I still like having the creative modes for when I can't quite decide what settings I need! It's never missed a beat for me.
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Just been doing some reading up on the 10-20mm and there are some worrying reports of some lenses being very soft around the edges and that the quality control is awful so its a bit of a lottery as to if you get a good one!
Anyone had any experience of this?
Anyone had any experience of this?
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Just to clarify:
DG = lens designed for digital photography. As light reflects back off the glass sensor in a digital camera, the lenses are specially coated to reduce ghosting and flaring. These lenses can be used on Full Frame camera's and cropped cameras (and even Film Cameras
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DC = lenses designed for APS C sized cameras (1.6 crop). These lenses have a smaller image circle and are similar in nature to EFS lenses in the Canon range. The notable difference between DC and EFS is that DC lenses do not protrude into the camera like an EFS lens does. Ths means they can be used on a FF camera, but with a whopping black circle around the outside (vignetting is not an appropriate description here)
DC lenses are cheaper than non-DC lenses as they produce a smaller image circle and are therefore cheaper to manufacture. There should not be any difference in quality as both the 10-20 DC and 12-24 are HSM lenses witht he EX (professional) designation.
DG = lens designed for digital photography. As light reflects back off the glass sensor in a digital camera, the lenses are specially coated to reduce ghosting and flaring. These lenses can be used on Full Frame camera's and cropped cameras (and even Film Cameras
)DC = lenses designed for APS C sized cameras (1.6 crop). These lenses have a smaller image circle and are similar in nature to EFS lenses in the Canon range. The notable difference between DC and EFS is that DC lenses do not protrude into the camera like an EFS lens does. Ths means they can be used on a FF camera, but with a whopping black circle around the outside (vignetting is not an appropriate description here
)DC lenses are cheaper than non-DC lenses as they produce a smaller image circle and are therefore cheaper to manufacture. There should not be any difference in quality as both the 10-20 DC and 12-24 are HSM lenses witht he EX (professional) designation.