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Postby Grev on Fri May 26, 2006 4:56 am

How are the percentage of duds ratio for the Sigmas? :?:
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Postby Dug on Fri May 26, 2006 8:49 am

I have not seen a dud come back into the shop yet.
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Postby birddog114 on Fri May 26, 2006 8:56 am

None of failure so far but pls. note: on the new camera, regardless Nikon oor Canon, some old Sigma required to re-chipped, otherwise it doesn't work or not working properly, we had a discussion on this before.
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Postby owen on Fri May 26, 2006 9:53 am

I've got a normal UV filter on my Tokina, I have noticed very slight vignetting only when shooting at 12mm and f4, not noticable otherwise.
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Postby Grev on Fri May 26, 2006 10:59 am

birddog114 wrote:None of failure so far but pls. note: on the new camera, regardless Nikon oor Canon, some old Sigma required to re-chipped, otherwise it doesn't work or not working properly, we had a discussion on this before.

But this isn't old though, right?
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Postby birddog114 on Fri May 26, 2006 11:04 am

Grev wrote:
birddog114 wrote:None of failure so far but pls. note: on the new camera, regardless Nikon oor Canon, some old Sigma required to re-chipped, otherwise it doesn't work or not working properly, we had a discussion on this before.

But this isn't old though, right?


Not saying an old lens but the lens produced before the new camera released.
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