Photography The Layzee Way: Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro Lens

Originally I had the Canon 100mm F2.8 mk2 and whilst it is a cracking lens I didn't use it that often, and as my photography had taken a turn towards wildlife I decided to sell the Canon 100mm lens and put it towards a Canon 500mm f4 L IS (which has now also been sold as Canon decided it had come to the end of its life).
So when I read a review in Photoplus of a bunch of macro lenses the Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro Lens came out as best value for money winner, at £360 whats not to like, its half the price of the Canon equivalent and almost matches the Canon on the image quality stakes.

After hunting around on the good old WWW and doing the necessary research I took the plunge, found one on sale at Mathers of Lancashire for £339 including delivery.

I ordered on the Thursday not expecting to see it until the following week, but i was wrong there, phone call from Mathers asking if i needed a filter for the front and informed me it would be on its way the same day for delivery on the Friday before 1pm !
True to their word it rocked up about 10.30am, fantastic service from Mathers!!

So far all I have done is MA'd it too my 5dmk4 using Reikan Focal, it needed a setting of +2 to get the focal point on the money.
Other than that it looks like a good bit of kit for the money.

I will update this post when I get it out in the field.

Wasn't entirely happy with the MA results from Reikan Focal so I decided to do it old school on my home made ma test scale.
Aperture set to f2.8 iso 200 manually defocusing to both sides of the focal point this is what I found.

The above is the result using Reikan focal a setting of +2 on the MA scale, looking at this picture to me there is a slight back focus on this setting.