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Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports
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Jonathan-Mac
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I will never use such a lens but it's good that it exists for those that want a beast like this.
It really is a beast at 4kg, you'd have Popeye arms after using this handheld on a regular basis.
It would be amazing for video obviously using a tripod. It would be Planet Earth UHD stuff and the zoom is much more versatile than the 600mm f4 prime.
Canon and Nikon users are a bit peaved LoL and now L-mount has a top notch sports telephoto zoom and f4. There has been loads of moaning up to now about this void so lets see if they buy it, probably not even with the insane value... the whingers
It would be amazing for video obviously using a tripod. It would be Planet Earth UHD stuff and the zoom is much more versatile than the 600mm f4 prime.
Canon and Nikon users are a bit peaved LoL and now L-mount has a top notch sports telephoto zoom and f4. There has been loads of moaning up to now about this void so lets see if they buy it, probably not even with the insane value... the whingers
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Should be reviews of it in a few days time and hopefully downloadable RAWs. Hopefully a good photographer is providing samples, test charts are mehhhhh on their own for such a lens . You want to see colours, renders, bokeh and 3D pop along with the generic stuff.
Hopefully local shop gets one in for a demo
Hopefully local shop gets one in for a demo
Even if it is much cheaper than any other 4/600 it is still not cheap in absolute terms.
These f4/600 are more for classic sports and wildlife. Used from tripod, maybe in a hide…
That is the point with any f4/600: such a lens could not be lightweight by specification. The first lenses in that area where 5 or even 6kg. Over the years CaNiSo where able to reduce these lenses to nearly 3kg. But this looks now like the end of possible development. And these lenses are no zooms, all fixed focal lenses!
If the Sigma can reach the same level of picture quality, it is a milestone as zoom and also for this price. The first 4/600 in the 90s was already near to 10k€ and that was 30 years ago…
normally these high aperture teles are not for birders. They prefer lighter equipment with even longer focal range. Must be usable handheld…
These f4/600 are more for classic sports and wildlife. Used from tripod, maybe in a hide…
That is the point with any f4/600: such a lens could not be lightweight by specification. The first lenses in that area where 5 or even 6kg. Over the years CaNiSo where able to reduce these lenses to nearly 3kg. But this looks now like the end of possible development. And these lenses are no zooms, all fixed focal lenses!
If the Sigma can reach the same level of picture quality, it is a milestone as zoom and also for this price. The first 4/600 in the 90s was already near to 10k€ and that was 30 years ago…
Jonathan-Mac
Well-Known Member
The Canon RF and Nikon Z 600mm f/4s cost around €15k each so this Sigma is less than half the price (or maybe half with taxes) and with the flexibility of being a zoom. Assuming that image quality is similar that's a great deal for someone that needs this kind of lens.
Yip, my small birding entry above was a satire, it is 4.5m minimum focal at 600mm which is not the most ideal but still OK.
Thinking of it as a small birding lens is an incredibly small point of view. I was looking at some older photos of my Pentax 300mm f4.5 on APSC eq. 450mm of the Belfast marathon and they are nice, the compression, the bokeh etc. You can use it for stealthy street photography being so far away which is what I was doing.
Otherwise my use would be surfing competition (think Nazarrre), boating, sailing etc. as they are frequently available targets close to me.
It is really versatile, long portraits etc. Longer focal length is something that has always appealed from the above to landscapes.
The idea that landscapes are necessary with UWA or WA is nonsense, a parroted thought. It is wonderful with longer focal length.
Jonathan-Mac
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Yes, landscapes can be anything from ultra-wide to long telephoto. Many ultra-wide landscapes would have been better composed at longer focal lengths.
Yip, I learned this from zooming and pixel peeping in the early days. In general UWA unless you are close up makes anything uninteresting, featureless too small, irrelevant, and includes 80% of further irrelevant skies and foreground, unless they too are relevant. The 'get more in' terrible advice!
Unfortunately this UWA advice still exists purported by some ever-lasting noobs and most beginners seemingly follow, also some never see it. You see it everywhere... need 14mm etc. for landscape... But if they have any hope or scope and analyse what they are producing they are going to self-learn.
This is why you look at Ansel and others and not some random geezers on forums parroting parrots.