Hjalmarg1 said:Beautiful image.
This is a lens I have been contemplating to add to my arsenal, while on the budget.
pato said:I'm also very torn between those two lenses and maybe also the Tamron 150-600 one.
Regarding the TC, I read that the canon at 400mm, cropped to 600mm, offers the same image quality as the Sigma at 600mm. But then, the Sigma is half the price of the Canon and I'm not sure if the other few positive aspects of the Canon are worth the price.
Would love to read more about your experience with the Sigma!
dpc said:I bought a Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary yesterday. This is my first and, so far, only shot with it. Taken with a 5D Mark II at f/8, ISO200, 1/125 second, 600mm. Handheld.
Click said:dpc said:I bought a Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary yesterday. This is my first and, so far, only shot with it. Taken with a 5D Mark II at f/8, ISO200, 1/125 second, 600mm. Handheld.
Lovely. Nicely done, dpc.
AlanF said:pato said:I'm also very torn between those two lenses and maybe also the Tamron 150-600 one.
Regarding the TC, I read that the canon at 400mm, cropped to 600mm, offers the same image quality as the Sigma at 600mm. But then, the Sigma is half the price of the Canon and I'm not sure if the other few positive aspects of the Canon are worth the price.
Would love to read more about your experience with the Sigma!
I now have a Sigma 150-600mm C and the Canon 100-400mm II, used mainly on the 5DS R. For my copy of the Sigma, the centre at 400mm is actually sharper than that of the Canon. My Sigma is excellent at 600mm and much better than the 100-400mm II +1.4xTC III. This differs from the charts on TDP - probably due to copy variation. Over the weekend, I took the 100-400mm with me on a trip to Capri because it is smaller and lighter, and I much prefer its AF, IS and handling. The Sigma even works at 840mm with its 1.4xTC. Here is a chiffchaff I took this afternoon, hand-held, f/9, 1/200s iso 640. The 100-400 II would have given a great image, with better AF. But, it shows that the Sigma works.
AlanF said:By the way, I bought the Sigma dock to set the OS to "Dynamic". In the standard OS mode, the image jumps all over the viewfinder at 600mm, but dynamic cures it.
dpc said:I finally found a bird to focus on, a boring bird but a bird nonetheless (600mm; ISO1600; EV1.67; F/6.3; 1/1000s). Not too bad. I'm probably going to have to use a tripod or other stabilizing supports when using this thing.
dpc said:I finally found a bird to focus on, a boring bird but a bird nonetheless (600mm; ISO1600; EV1.67; F/6.3; 1/1000s). Not too bad. I'm probably going to have to use a tripod or other stabilizing supports when using this thing.
FramerMCB said:dpc said:I finally found a bird to focus on, a boring bird but a bird nonetheless (600mm; ISO1600; EV1.67; F/6.3; 1/1000s). Not too bad. I'm probably going to have to use a tripod or other stabilizing supports when using this thing.
Not bad! Not bad at all. Perhaps a monopod...that way you still can move rather quickly but gives you support for the weight as well as having one axis stabilized.