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From what Chris has said, you might think that I am sigma‘s bitch and you might be wondering why. Well I’m not entirely sure myself but here is why I chose Sigma as my first choice brand.

It started with the fact that it was the brand of choice for my father, a man not noted for putting quality over cost but I liked the look and feel of the old lenses of his, and it was Chris that said sigma has a quite good reputation these days. The time came when I wanted to use more than my canon kit lens, and unfortunately the older sigma lenses did not work 100 percent on the EOS 350D. I started to look for what I needed. My requirements were something that covered my existing range while going longer. Whilst looking round I found the sigma site to be very useful, well laid out and full of information. With a few searches on the net I found an example of the lens. That was my first Sigma purchase, so it was natural that after a fortunate find in the 18-200mm I was going to look at sigma first when looking for my macro. Again the Sigma site and specs helped me decide on their 50mm.

When I stared to look into buying a powerful zoom I pretty much decided on Sigma, because I liked what I’d seen, but I checked out prices and specs and found sigma was the way to go here as well. After getting some advice from the guys in the sigma group on flickr I plumped for the BIGMA – the 50-500mm – and was very pleased. So when it came to buying a wide-angle, I looked nowhere else than sigma, and picked the widest thing they sell.

Now all the lenses I have bought have been wonderful, however, Chris has tried some in stores and found them a little wanting, even the same models as mine, so all I can say to that is they are very very good, but apparently there is a little luck involved.

Should I need another lens, I will sill look at sigma, but chris has scared me a little. Luckily there is not much in the way of lenses I need for now …