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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · My Impression on the Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary (with photos) | |
DavidWEGS wrote:
Nice shots, and I assume by the site name you are pretty familiar with BIF and the likes, which lends and air of cred. to your thoughts.
Compared to the 200-400 (if you have ever used it), how does it compare overall? Thinking of a swap for weight reasons.
Thanks much for sharing this.
Thank you David.
I've always measured other tele lenses to the primes' standards. Although I've shot with the 200-400mm before, I didn't make a direct comparison with the Sigma 150-600mm. Now I can only answer with my gut feelings when I was shooting with each of those lenses in hand. The 200-400mm to me was a bit clumsy to handle, AF was I would say about 7 out of 10 compared to the 400mm f2.8. Although it could accommodate a teleconverter, I would think that the loss in IQ was not worth it. Now with the 150-600mm, your max. focal length is 600mm, yes the Sigma can still be sharp enough at that high range. AF was very decent, I've only had issues when it's really low light, or having very cluttered backgrounds. Probably on a scale of 1 to 10, it's about 8. One other point, with the Sigma you can shoot at 600mm if need to, where with the 200-400mm you'd have to attach a 1.4x to get equal length. And then there's the weight and cost issues which I won't get into.
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