Sigma Sd Quattro "H" Images

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 85mm f1.4 EX DG lens
Yokohama, Japan - June 2018

All the best,
Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 50mm f1.4 EX DG lens
Yokohama, Japan - June 2018
Images shot in RAW and processed with Sigma Photo software in AUTO mode.

All the best,
Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 50mm f1.4 EX DG lens
Yokohama, Japan - June 2018
Images shot in RAW and processed with Sigma Photo software in AUTO mode.

All the best,
Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 50mm f1.4 EX DG lens
Yokohama, Japan - June 2018
Images shot in RAW and processed with Sigma Photo software in AUTO mode.

All the best,
Miike

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

 

[Jamie Pillers]

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

SD Quattro H, 18-35mm DC Art, DNG

Three frames stitched

 

[shawn]

Nice shots Mike and Jamie.

Jamie, how is the 18-35 with DC crop off? It looks like you shots those with DC crop off and then cropped a bit in post. Is that due to vignetting in the corners?

Thanks,

Shawn

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Shawn, there’s just the tiniest bit of vignetting... almost none. Most of the time I ignore it. Same with the 30/1.4.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

^^^Great stuff, Jamie, hope to see more from you soon!

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 50mm f1.4 EX DG lens (66mm on Sd Quattro H)
ISO 100 - Images shot in RAW and processed with Sigma PhotoPro software in "AUTO" mode
Yokohama, Japan - July 2018

All the best,
Mike

 

[shawn]

All sd Quattro H with internal 850nm IR filter. Rokinon 14mm or 30mm 1.4 ART.

Shawn

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 30mm f1.4 DC "Art" lens
Yokohama, Japan - Last day of October, 2018

Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 30mm f1.4 DC "Art" lens (45mm on Sd Quattro), ISO 100
Yokohama,Japan - November 2018

I'm in a Lou Reed State of Mind.

Mike

 

[Steve M.]

Wow, some neat shots here. Here's my take on it:

The B&W shots look like digital B&W. Just the nature of the beast.

Some of the colour shots look like normal digital shots, but a lot of the other shots (the vast majority that Mike has posted) have a real "POP" to them. Wonderful colour on everything as well.

I have a question for you Mike. The flower shots, and a lot of the people shots with the subjects close to the camera, look very, very nice, but they aren't what I normally see w/ any other camera or lens either. Are you using a fair amount of selective sharpening on these?

Now I have to go to youtube and put on some Lou Reed. Thanks for mentioning that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q74V9OCgxY

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

I have a question for you Mike. The flower shots, and a lot of the people shots with the subjects close to the camera, look very, very nice, but they aren't what I normally see w/ any other camera or lens either. Are you using a fair amount of selective sharpening on these?

Hi Steve! Thank you for the kind remarks.

No selective sharpening; wouldn’t know how to do it if I wanted to. What I do, all that I do, is shoot the images in RAW and then process them in “AUTO” mode with the Sigma Photo-Pro software. The only time I deviate from “AUTO” is if the exposure on the main subject is too dark or too light in which case I correct the exposure to my satisfaction. After that the only correction I make to an image is to straighten it out, I think I have one arm longer than the other, most of my images are crooked by one or two degrees, and sometimes I crop a little. That’s it.

Some people think that the Sigma Sd Quattro H has limitations and see those limitations as disadvantages. I think they’re 50% correct; the Sd Quattro does have limitations but I see them as advantages. The less a camera can do for me the more I have to do for myself. It’s kind of like Jackson Pollock throwing paint at a canvas except that I’m throwing my camera at the subject (of course I’m not really throwing it at the subject). If the autofocus is to slow, shoot in manual; if manual focus is too slow, zone focus and use your feet. Whatever it takes.

Again, it’s like painting - the Sigma Sd Quattro H gives a person some great paint to work with, it’s up to the photographer to use that paint to their advantage. Also the Sigma lenses maybe kind of big and heavy but they work pretty good!

And, as always it helps to have some Lou Reed playing in ones head while out shooting pictures.

Too much information? I hope not.

A few more from yesterday.

All the best,
Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sigma Sd Quattro H, Sigma 30mm f1.4 DC "Art" lens (45mm on Sd Quattro H), ISO 100
Yokohama,Japan - November 2018

Mike