Being sharp at 600 mm, if it tests out, would allow forgiveness of many sins.
Being sharp at 600 mm, if it tests out, would allow forgiveness of many sins.
I think you may be right, but it depends on the target. Who is the target to buy a $2,000 100 oz 150-600mm zoom lens? Are they going for the 100-400 crowd for a few hundred dollars more? The serious wild life guys put a small fortune into buying the superteles. I doubt they'd be interested in the Sigma.Originally Posted by Kayaker72
Being sharp at 600 mm, if it tests out, would allow forgiveness of many sins.
Personally, $2,000 for a camera lens is too rich for my blood and 100 oz too heavy to hand hold for very long at all. If I were to buy a long lens I'd go for the Tamron. There's a guy named Imagemaster who's been posting some really nice images with the Tamron.
That said, the other Art lenses Sigma has come out are very interesting. The 35mm is great, I've rented that one and really liked it. I haven't used the 24-105, but it looks fantastic as well.
Dave
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dthrog00/
ummm...if the optics and AF are good enough, me.
Seriously, look at the MTF charts...
If these are accurate, they are better at 600 mm than the 50A.
AF will be a big question mark. And I won't believe anything until I see some test results. But, this could be an excellent optic at 600 mm for $2k. If so I could easily be the market.
Cool, buy a good tripod and head if you don't already have themummm...if the optics and AF are good enough, me.
Seriously, look at the MTF charts...
If these are accurate, they are better at 600 mm than the 50A.
AF will be a big question mark. And I won't believe anything until I see some test results. But, this could be an excellent optic at 600 mm for $2k. If so I could easily be the market.
Dave
See my photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dthrog00/
The Canon 100-400L is such an old lens now, the pumper isn't for me and to be fair, beyond 300mm isn't something I want to carry when I'm walking, so I got myself a modern 70-300L with great optics and a step up in AF from my previous 70-300 non-L
However, I want more for occasional use, for aircraft, shipping, moon pics, a bit of wildlife and odd bit of freelancing I do for MI5 ;-) oops, did I say that out loud ! I want more than 300mm on my full frame, but don't really want to spend "big money". The 100-400mm or 400mm on a crop is a bit of a step up, but then I add a 1.4x or 2.0x and AF doesn't work, or I'd need to buy a 7DII and suffer just the 1.4x working - giving me a max 896mm (FF equiv) with AF or I could drop less money on a Sigma 150-600mm which from all accounts autofocuses up to f8 with extenders, that would give me 840mm on FF with AF (wait for the TDP review to be bunk that one) - I'm interested for sure, especially at say £1500-1800 that it may be in the UK, compared to 7DII with 400mm Canon lens at about about £2000
I don't really want to own two DSLR's at this time, the 6D plus EOS-M works for me now, a lottery win or promotion to Associate Director salary might change that, but both seem unlikely !
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