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3Kg seems like a lot of weight to lug around for a 50mm lens thoughKind of wish they had gone 50-600! Look forward to seeing how it performs. I really like the 50mm end of 50-500.
3Kg seems like a lot of weight to lug around for a 50mm lens though
Kind of wish they had gone 50-600! Look forward to seeing how it performs. I really like the 50mm end of 50-500.
I recently bought the Sigma 150-500mm from amazon and was very disappointed with it and sent it strait back. It was very soft at the 500mm end which, let's face it, is the focal length it is bought for or you could buy a cheaper, shorter lens. It also wasn't spectacular at any other length either.
I then bought the Tamron 150-600mm and it is far superior to the Sigma, sharp no matter what range it's used at and just feels better built too.
Ok I may have had a bad version of the Sigma but reading around the Internet if I did so have a lot of other people too.
If Sigma wants to compete with Tamron with the same zoom range then in my experience they will have to up their game considerably.
Also as has been mentioned above, why don't one of the third party manufacturers bring out a decent long fast prime. The market is obviously there for one.
Looking at Sigma's current strategy, this should knock spots off the Tamron. Can't wait to see images from it. Just hope price is around the same as the Tamron.
There was some talk of some big primes either early this year or late last year on Canon Rumours. Still time though, they might be announcing this now and a big lens at Photokina.Nice to see another lens dropping into that void between the £1k and £5k superteles- but I'd have preferred to see a new 500mm prime personally. I'm guessing this' ll be about £2.5k- can't see it being much cheaper than the 120-300 s.
What, for both of the Sigma SLR owners? Seems unlikely.I think there new lenses are designed with foveon in mind
I'd be interested in a 600 f/6.3 prime. Lose the zoom, the complex mechanics, concentrate on making the 600 end stellar. For 1/10 of the price of a 600/4, I bet there's a huge number of us who'd pay for the reach at the expense of the aperture. After all, given the target market, isn't this really a 600mm lens with a sighting mechanism built in?