Sigma 18-35 ART is just so dangerously sharp

[fjrabon]

Was going through some images I took with it on the D7000 and this one just jumped out, not as an actual good photograph, but just pure lens technical ability. The backlighting really allowed the lens to pick up stupid amounts of detail. It takes a pretty ridiculous lens to make a non-cropped ISO 100 image on the D7000 get to the point where the only thing holding back sharpness is the pure lack of pixels. This is literally as sharp/detailed as an image could possibly be on a D7000 I think. And f/8 isn't even the thing's sweetspot. it's actually sharpest around f/4.

DSC_7408 by Franklin Rabon, on Flickr

When I have time to get it fully nailed down focus calibration wise and get out and shoot on the D7100, I'll post some images with that.

Here's a 100% crop:

100crop1835 by Franklin Rabon, on Flickr

 

[Parker219]

Yep, I agree. I have the lens and love it!

 

[D-B-J]

My eyes are bleeding! So sharp!

 

[sashbar]

My monitor is only 2880 x 1800, so I can not see how really sharp it is on sub pixel level

 

[unpopular]

I just bought a Fujian 35/1.7. It's more like a cuddly puppy.

 

[jsecordphoto]

yeah, the ART series is pretty damn amazing.