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a Lady Member of Brentwood Photographic Club bought a huge Sigma Zoom 170-500mm f5 NIKON fit and after finding she needed to go to The Gym to get get Muscles Up wanted to sell it to another Club Member but let me test it -- well it is really for 'Auto-Focus' but has a small 'Manual Focus' ring -- so I could use it on a FILM Nikon -- my Wife's Nikon FE that she never uses now so I have 'Taken it over'
It really must be used with a support of some kind -- I used a MONOPOD but still found it difficult to manage. When I focused correctly the results were sharp even at full aperture f5 . Then my friend from Club tried it on his 2 Digital Nikons and found it was ;Not Compatible for Auto -Focus' and as he suffers from 'Shaking Hands' could not use it after all.
Here are MY results on FUJI SUPERIA 200 ( should have been 400 ASA as many showed subject movement of the birds)
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
It really must be used with a support of some kind -- I used a MONOPOD but still found it difficult to manage. When I focused correctly the results were sharp even at full aperture f5 . Then my friend from Club tried it on his 2 Digital Nikons and found it was ;Not Compatible for Auto -Focus' and as he suffers from 'Shaking Hands' could not use it after all.
Here are MY results on FUJI SUPERIA 200 ( should have been 400 ASA as many showed subject movement of the birds)
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Testing a SIGMA 170-500mm f5 Nikon fit lens by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
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