{"id":8257,"date":"2006-06-07T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/sigma-10-20mm-f4-5-6-ex-dc-hsm\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:30","slug":"sigma-10-20mm-f4-5-6-ex-dc-hsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/sigma-10-20mm-f4-5-6-ex-dc-hsm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, so I&#8217;ve been thinking about a new camera lens. After reading reviews of the standardish zoom that I have, I&#8217;ve come to have the impression that it&#8217;s a pretty good lens, so I think I&#8217;ll stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m thinking that it might be nice to get something a bit wider angle. Sigma offers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaphoto.com\/lenses\/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3301&#038;navigator=6\">10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM<\/a> which looks fairly promising. It runs US$500 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Mind if I ask if any of you have opinions on it?<\/p>\n<p>The other lens I&#8217;m thinking would be nice to get is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thkphoto.com\/products\/tokina\/afl-08.html\">Tokina AT-X 840 AF-II<\/a>. It&#8217;s a 80-400mm zoom, and with that I&#8217;d have just about everything covered with zooms. Nothing especially fast, but it&#8217;s reasonable. It&#8217;s $650 and not quite available yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, so I&#8217;ve been thinking about a new camera lens. After reading reviews of the standardish zoom that I have, I&#8217;ve come to have the impression that it&#8217;s a pretty good lens, so I think I&#8217;ll stick with it. That said, I&#8217;m thinking that it might be nice to get something a bit wider angle.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}