A few months ago, I got to purchasing this lens, and I must say I love the image quality it brought into my work. I shoot mostly food and fashion, and I'm being able to use it on both areas. I tested it against the Canon 60mm EFS lens, and the Canon 100mm EF f2.8, both macro lenses. I felt back then that the 100mm would be too much on a 1.6 crop camera, and that since I want to move up towards a 1D camera someday, getting an EF-S exclusive lens would automatically make it a lens I would have to replace sometime in the future.
So, I can't put in words how happy I am with this lens, and how I do recommend it for anyone who shoots still life, jewelry and food, as well as portraits, and fashion, if you can't go for a zoom lens with similar image quality. BUT, why doesn't sigma provide this lens with a tripod mount? Finishing a composition for a vertical shot, doing that shot, and NOT being able to just tilt from vertical to horizontal to shoot an horizontal option, really does suck, because not only I have to recompose the tabletop for the horizontal option, BUT, I have to try finding the exact same position again with the tripod ( a Manfrotto tripod ). Just being able to switch a lock and flipping the camera over a ring-mount would be SO much simpler, like you would with a 70-200L, or the same 100mm f2.8 I mentioned before, that has an optional tripod mount ( being fair to mention, I did consider getting that lens for the tripod mount alone... ).
Do many people also miss the tripod mount on macro lens?
PS: If anyone know of any alternative tripod mount that fits, I'm all ears
