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Chalkhilll Blue, Polyommatus coridon on Fleabane
5Dii + Sigma 105 2.8 EX DG HSM Macro OS
1/250 f/3.5 iso 400 time: 17:29 Weather: rain showers
Milovice, Czech Republic
It's slow process to adapt to new camera and lens. Settings and layout are different. Sigma lenses are extremely consistent in build. The Canon 100 2.8 lens was problematic.It's shot approximately 70% of all my work, but almost impossible for me to use now. After several months of trying to regain control, the frustration and pain caused by the lens was overwhelming. The 60 2.8 is on the 7D. I gives me no problem, but it is a light short barrel lens. The problem is to make the gigantic leap back onto a large macro lens, EF 100 2,8, but the stress and pain were too much. The lens was causing uncontrollable muscle spasms. If I could put the Sigma onto the 5Dii, perhaps it could ease the stress. Instead of 58mm, it is 62mm. Maybe just that slight change in barrel could ease stress on my hand. Being able to focus using only fourth finger or thumb is also critical. I can't close my hand now. In fact, I can't touch my fingers to my palm. I can't make a fist and there's virtually no grip in left hand. The nerves from shoulder to hand were ruptured, leaving me unable to move left arm or fingers for very long time. It's extremely slow recovery, so being able to hold or put a large macro lens on the hand is in itself big achievement. For a long time, I could only use the 60 2.8 and 35-135 4-5.6. They are both short, fat lenses. To be honest, it took nearly three years for me to relearn how to get down on the ground and stand up again, so to be out in the rain and holding a camera with a macro lens is fantastic. It takes time to relearn things once instinctive, but with strange camera and lens, there are additional quirks in rehabbing control. It's not the best, not the worst, but it's mine.
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