The same hereI'm undecided about the lens at the moment. It's either one of these or the new 100-400mm MKII.
I was but decided tamron 150 600 now and the 100 400 mkii in a couple of weeks, bit more spend but end up with 2 lenses to play withThe same here
I note the contemporary version, is now available for pre-order, on the B&H website. $1089, so I assume, the UK price will be £1000 plus.
B&H have the Tamron for $1069 so that should give an idea of the UK price of the Contemporary.I note the contemporary version, is now available for pre-order, on the B&H website. $1089, so I assume, the UK price will be £1000 plus.
whats the betting they can't fulfill there orders at that price ,theres none for sale in europe as far as i,m aware,one thing was noted the other night though is there are a couple of sigma mount ones on amazon for sale at a low price ,sigma seemed surprised that no one had bought one and paid for a mount conversion to nikon or canon ????With Amazon lowering the pre-order price of the Sport version, I wouldn't have thought the Contemporary would be over £1k. They'd be too close in terms of price otherwise. They seem to be gunning for the Tamron so my guess is it will be the exact same price (about £899 atm).
Here's something to cheer up the people in the D810 "grey" thread.
Current pre-order price on Amazon UK for Nikon mount - £1,274.53
Current pre-order price on B&H for Nikon mount - $1999 or £1312.00
So just under £40 less here in the UK.. And that includes our 20% VAT. The Amazon UK price has gone up £30 from when I made my post a couple days ago.
Sorry to put your fire out Mike ,but it clearly states delivery in 1 to 3 months ,even sigma says amozon won't be able to supply till between March and July.Ah, I see Amazon have them in Canon mount now.
You can hard lock it at 150 but also soft lock it at the pre set zoom lengths as marked these will hold for walking around but can be overridden with a twist of the zoom ring ,you cannot equate this to any previous sigma it's a different class altogetherYes but up until today Amazon didn't even have them listed for Canon, I have been watching for weeks.
Can you lock the lens at any length or only certain areas? ... I'm looking to buy one for air shows where it would be used at 600mm 90% of the time.
I've read March, for the Canon version, but May for the Nikon version. That said, it's only internet chat, so wouldn't take it as gospel.Is there an estimated release date for the Contemporary version anywhere? I've tried searching but no luck.
Lovely shots, nice and sharp! What camera did you have the lens on? I'm getting a 5D3 soon and my longest lens is a 70-200 f/2.8. With that lens on my crop sensor I still feel I need more sometimes so I was looking into either this lens or the Tamron one. I must say I'm pretty impressed so far.just back from a 4 day trip ,used the lens hand held for the full time ,no problems at all its a super lens and very very sharp .got a lot still to process but heres a starter
FACE OFF ! by blackfox wildlife and nature imaging, on Flickr
hunting high by blackfox wildlife and nature imaging, on Flickr
Click on the pictures, they will take you to Flickr and the exif. 1D MKIIILovely shots, nice and sharp! What camera did you have the lens on?
not got a lot of time for p/p at the moment but i took a 22 shot burst of a fox running away from me and 22 of them were in focus .still got hundreds to go through from this week and today and tommorow is high tides on the dee weekend.heres a fox oneHave you got any multiple shots taken with a fast fps ... I'm interested in how it tracks. I had the 50-500mm OS (still have one for my Pentax system) and to me it seemed the lens couldn't quite keep up.
the 400mm f5.6 is up for sale on here and elsewhere ,good buy for someone ,but that should answer the questionHi Jeff,
Great shots, Thank you! I saw on Flickr that you have the canon 400mm f5.6. If the case how does this compare with the prime. Which one would you keep?
Thank you!