Sigma 10-20mm or Canon 10-22mm?

[W. Grant Dade]

They were taken with the f4-5.6. I hadn't heard of the f3.5, maybe it wasn't out yet when I was looking to buy.

Noticed you live in Tyler. Check out this link, my first post. One of these rings I'm talking about was very near Tyler. Do you have a guess as to what kind of birds are causing this? One member said it was probably Egrets, roost in huge colonies. Should have been able to see some flying over right after daylight.

Josh

Edit: Oops almost forgot, here's the link to the thread.

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21395&highlight=expanding+rings

I am not sure what type of birds are making those rings. It looks as though they are taking off from the north side of Lake Tyler.

Where did you take those lightning photos. I love the high base. We don't get too many high based storms around here.

 

[Joshua Nall]

Where did you take those lightning photos. I love the high base. We don't get too many high based storms around here.

The city you see in one of them is Childress, TX. I was just south of there a bit. It was in May sometime, went out that way for a weekend chase. The storm was actually a little LP supercell... or the remnants of one anyway. And yes the storms out there are completely different, much less haze, low clouds, scud, etc... sometimes anyway. I really enjoyed the scene as there was about 5 or 6 of these little jokers that kinda just trained right over the same area, sat in one place for over 2 hours. Here's what one of them looked like before sun set. Like you said, you just don't see this around here:

 

[Darren Addy]

Not a lot of reviews out there yet on the Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM ELD, but based on what I've seen/read it looks like the best overall option for me right now (a non-Canon/Nikon shooter).

Here are some shots of it on a Canon 50D. Anybody read Japanese?
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20090727_304707.html

 

[Bob Hartig]

A good writeup. The only thing I'd add is, 相当。肉眼の視界を超えた超広角域から、扱いやすい広角域まで、これ1本で楽しめる。純正のに対する最大.

(Sorry, couldn't help myself!