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I just got my hands on the lens yesterday so I thought I'd give it a test. Click on to read and see the results.

Sigma 150-600mm test photos

Questions or comments, please post them here.

Edited on Jun 06, 2015 at 08:46 AM · View previous versions



Jun 05, 2015 at 03:52 PM
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Thank you and I thought your birds were lovely. I am renting the lens for part of the summer so I appreciate any info I can find.

Vella



Jun 05, 2015 at 10:15 PM
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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.




Aug 28, 2015 at 10:31 AM
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Nice write up thunderbird.

You mention a trick in the camera settings to get your focus working well. ..... What was the setting you used?

Cheers



Aug 28, 2015 at 11:17 AM
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Your results look great. Enjoy

Morris



Aug 28, 2015 at 12:44 PM
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C Parish wrote:
You mention a trick in the camera settings to get your focus working well. ..... What was the setting you used?



He wrote: The trick was in the camera setting. I kept switching between Single focus point and 51-points, depending on how accurate my aim was and how far away the subject was.



Aug 28, 2015 at 01:31 PM
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vkendall wrote:
Thank you and I thought your birds were lovely. I am renting the lens for part of the summer so I appreciate any info I can find.

Vella


Thanks Vella, how are you enjoying the lens so far?



Aug 28, 2015 at 01:36 PM
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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.




Aug 28, 2015 at 01:46 PM
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C Parish wrote:
Nice write up thunderbird.

You mention a trick in the camera settings to get your focus working well. ..... What was the setting you used?

Cheers



I was going to reply but Imagemaster has beat me to it. Yup I did say it in the orig post.



Aug 28, 2015 at 01:47 PM
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morris wrote:
Your results look great. Enjoy

Morris


Thanks Morris, I'm still not done with deciding which telephoto lens to be my backup behind the main "guns" like the 400, 500, 600, 800 primes. But surely the Sigma 150-600mm is a strong candidate, since it's likely I would carry both lenses on a bird walk.

Andy



Aug 28, 2015 at 01:50 PM
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Imagemaster wrote:
He wrote:


Imagemaster, just the answer I was looking for. Thanks. Long time no 'see'



Aug 28, 2015 at 01:51 PM
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thunderbird wrote:
Thanks Vella, how are you enjoying the lens so far?



I rented it for a month and spent a month in New England and rarely used it. The few practice photos I did take looked pretty good. I still keep thinking the new Canon 100-400 and it's close distance for focusing.

Vella



Sep 08, 2015 at 07:36 PM
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Isaac Grant wrote:
Sigma 150-600 C is a sharp and versatile lens. Glad to see more Nikon shooters using it. If you check the sigma thread I and others have posted many many shots with it that you can use to help judge how well it performs. My opinion is that it is a great lens and worth far more than the cost. But I think it performs best when the subjects are very close. I do not think the lens crops well at all so keep that in mind. If you often shoot distant subjects and need to crop heavily or
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It's certainly very good up close but I don't think it's bad at distance either. But I guess that depends on what you compare it to. It's certainly not worse than the Tamron 150-600 at distance.

Here is a shot I took about a week ago using the D7200 + Sigma C 150-600 and while it's not a very good shot I think it crops decently.

uncropped:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5836/20999592545_ec8a756e4f_b.jpg


100% crop:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/571/20811509040_0b0fbc5768_o.jpg



Sep 09, 2015 at 08:28 AM
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I knew Andy couldn't stay away from this place. Long time no see.

Bruce



Sep 09, 2015 at 02:28 PM
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Isaac Grant wrote:
Honestly I think the crop of this shot is not nearly as good as the uncropped shot. If you are happy with it that is all that really matters, but for me, I think there is quite a big difference between the 2. I would not consider the cropped version a keeper at all.



well of course the uncropped version has higher image quality. And I agree, the cropped version is not what I would consider a keeper. It's way to heavily cropped. But there's still a decent amount of details in it.



Sep 09, 2015 at 04:50 PM
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I didn't look at every single image on the blog, but am I the only one who thinks almost all of them look visibly soft or OOF even at web size? They do to my eye on this monitor at least.


Sep 09, 2015 at 04:59 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · My Impression on the Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary (with photos)


Is there a future for the supertele photo primes? Canon and Nikon better take notice!

Just go to the 500 and 600 Nikon f4 pages on this forum, take a look at the images and compare them to your blog images, Pretty sure that'll answer your question.



Sep 09, 2015 at 05:55 PM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · My Impression on the Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary (with photos)


I've heard good reports so far on this lens and that first shot is very nice.


Sep 09, 2015 at 07:35 PM
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Isaac Grant wrote:
Yes there are a decent amount of details but if it is not a keeper than what is the point?


The point was to show that the lens is pretty sharp at distance. In my opinion. I don't expect to be able to crop any of my shots from 6000px wide to ~1300px wide and end up with a good image.

The nest is about 150 - 200 meters away according to google maps.







Sep 10, 2015 at 02:27 AM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · My Impression on the Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary (with photos)


I don't know why you would think there is a thought process you're not following. It's pretty obvious that we don't feel the same way about the sharpness of the image. And that's fine with me.


Sep 10, 2015 at 06:26 AM
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