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

http://www.custombrackets.com/scripts/prod...p?idproduct=153

Mount this bracket to your tripod, and your camera to the bracket with the correct adapter, sold separately. Changing vertical/horizontal is as easy as rotating the camera in the bracket. If you adjust the camera mount plate and attach the camera properly, the center of the composition will not change when switching between horizontal and vertical. Use with a remote release if you aren't already. Check B&H, Adorama, etc for best pricing; all the good camera store carry these. There are also versions with a flash mount so that you can shoot with flash above the lens when horizontal and vertical. If you shoot handheld with flash, you might want to look into one of those, but they cost a bit more.