While I was googling „Sigma fp-L user group“ and swiping away all ads and FB groups I stumbled over this forum and thought it might be nice to see what happens here and why.
I‘m an L-mount user since late 2020, based in Switzerland and switched to L-mount after 10 years of Nikon. At first, I was attracted to the S1R which I tried before starting a mirror-free photo-life with Z 7 back in 2019. I felt Nikon was doing the same thing they already failed at with their system „1“: Always adding more features instead of getting some flaws straight. Expensive lenses, bodies (Z 7 and Z 6) not at the same level of usability and durability like my D850, which feels like the S1R. But the S1R‘s shutter sounds much better…
Another thing was bothering me: My dear Sigma lenses could be adapted by FTZ adapter, but the adapter was one of the many rather mediocre designs in the line-up adding to „no battery grip, no fully articulated LCD, display quirks, U1..3 setting quirks and many more. So, before X-Mas 2020 I decided to abandon Nikon and see what I can do with L-mount. Starting with a S5 and it‘s excellent 20-60, adding quickly a couple of Sigma and few Panasonic lenses, S1R, S5II and fp-L, I never looked back to Z-world, sometimes I‘m still using the D850 as it‘s battery life easily outperforms most ML bodies.
Especially the fp-L was a rather full bag of surprises, most of them very pleasant. I designed my own grip with the generous help of Sigma, offering downloads of 3D files, fantastic! I‘m not very interested in videos, far too much work, equipment and knowledge needed before the results look good to me. I prefer telling my stories with a still image. I rented a SL2-S last year and was surprised how easy and intuitive if felt to use it. 2 weeks ago I rented a SL3 and was surprised again, unfortunately to the opposite. Maybe I got a bad copy or it was set-up in a weird way, but that camera I would not accept as a free gift. Plus, the fp-L was in my comparisons always the winner.
Currently I‘m re-writing the fp-L‘s manual. I guess, the content was translated from Japanese to English to German and suffered some damage along the way. Maybe the re-writing will help me to understand the bits which are either poorly translated or were misunderstood by the writers of the first version. If the lenses would be of the quality of the camera manual, I would have stopped buying them after the first one
I‘m an L-mount user since late 2020, based in Switzerland and switched to L-mount after 10 years of Nikon. At first, I was attracted to the S1R which I tried before starting a mirror-free photo-life with Z 7 back in 2019. I felt Nikon was doing the same thing they already failed at with their system „1“: Always adding more features instead of getting some flaws straight. Expensive lenses, bodies (Z 7 and Z 6) not at the same level of usability and durability like my D850, which feels like the S1R. But the S1R‘s shutter sounds much better…
Another thing was bothering me: My dear Sigma lenses could be adapted by FTZ adapter, but the adapter was one of the many rather mediocre designs in the line-up adding to „no battery grip, no fully articulated LCD, display quirks, U1..3 setting quirks and many more. So, before X-Mas 2020 I decided to abandon Nikon and see what I can do with L-mount. Starting with a S5 and it‘s excellent 20-60, adding quickly a couple of Sigma and few Panasonic lenses, S1R, S5II and fp-L, I never looked back to Z-world, sometimes I‘m still using the D850 as it‘s battery life easily outperforms most ML bodies.
Especially the fp-L was a rather full bag of surprises, most of them very pleasant. I designed my own grip with the generous help of Sigma, offering downloads of 3D files, fantastic! I‘m not very interested in videos, far too much work, equipment and knowledge needed before the results look good to me. I prefer telling my stories with a still image. I rented a SL2-S last year and was surprised how easy and intuitive if felt to use it. 2 weeks ago I rented a SL3 and was surprised again, unfortunately to the opposite. Maybe I got a bad copy or it was set-up in a weird way, but that camera I would not accept as a free gift. Plus, the fp-L was in my comparisons always the winner.
Currently I‘m re-writing the fp-L‘s manual. I guess, the content was translated from Japanese to English to German and suffered some damage along the way. Maybe the re-writing will help me to understand the bits which are either poorly translated or were misunderstood by the writers of the first version. If the lenses would be of the quality of the camera manual, I would have stopped buying them after the first one
