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Shooting the Milky Way Handheld with the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art Lens
One year ago | By Peta Pixel
After getting his hands on the new Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art lens recently, photographer Alyn Wallace decided to take it out into the Elan Valley Dark Sky Park in Wales to put it through its paces. His first test: shooting the Milky Way handheld .
“With the f/1.8 aperture you can let in so much light onto your sensor,” Wallace says. “This is the fastest super-wide-angle lens ever made. Sigma have totally defied the laws of physics to create this lens.”
Wallace went into the dark sky park with the Sigma 14mm mounted to his Sony a7S II using Sigma's MC-11 Canon to Sony adapter, which allows the...
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