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What I forgot to add to my reply that the reason I chose the sigma lens was that the lens in question was bought used from a real shop for £40 more than the 55-250 is being sold for new. The camera used is a 40D so the same that you are using. The equipment doesn’t make the photo but if you don’t have the right kind of gear you will simply not be able to achieve a lot of things. If I’m out I want to be able to completely melt away a distracting background, just look at the difference in overall look in my comparisons a few posts up. Even at the same aperture there is a vast difference in the quality of the bokeh simply because the sigma is a much better lens. So what if the ears aren’t tack sharp and you can work around the loss of sharpness in the far eye, in fact it doesn’t matter that much as the viewer will be drawn to the closer eye. There is a reason many pros that use canon shoot with the 85mm f1.2 wide open. Blurring the background is more important that keeping the entire head in focus. Of course, if you are in a studio with a backdrop there is no reason not to use f8 or smaller but outdoors there is.
BEG, yours is actually the fourth version which is better than my first gen, especially at f2.8. I should really get round to selling it off
Warren, what will you do when you smack your camera and the plastic mount breaks off? What will you do when it starts drizzling? What about if you want to use a circular polarizer? What will you do when the lego motor that powers the AF breaks down? These are some of the reasons why people who charge should be using pro level gear. It doesn’t have to be very expensive, a canon 24-105L isn’t that expensive you if you get it used, same with a 70-200 f4L IS. The 17-40 f4L is one of the cheapest L lenses available. What would give you more bang for your buck though would be a full frame camera, even if it was a 5D classic. I’m honestly getting the impression you have never handled pro level gear.
Don’t think that I’m bashing your pictures, I’m not, in fact I like most of them. What I am saying is that your equipment side of things is completely skewed. Just look at how you respond to the comments in your ETTR article as well as your responses here.