Who's seen the announcement by Sigma today of the 60-600 S lens? Looks interesting. Tried to do a link but it was rejected as probable spam.
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Sigma 60-600 S lens
John
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I tested the 150 - 600mm lenses after they came out. I was so impressed I bought one. The range on that one is pretty wide though so I would be concerned about quality through the range. I will have to see if I can get one for testing at some point. I would be gun shy about spending $2,000.00 US on a lens I am not sure about.
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On the face of it, it's too large a range for a telephoto zoom. At 10x, that is a lot of design and manufacturing compromises that have to be made to achieve a reasonable performing lens. According to the reviewer: "that means fewer lens changes and if you were photographing an Elephant at 600mm and then it decided to charge at your Jeep to show it's dominance, you could still capture all the action". Not sure whether that would be during, or after you changed your underwear though!
Sigma's last dapple with 10x zoom was the 50 - 500mm, affectionately called the "Bigma". And that seemed to be where any affection ended. Talking to many owners and having used a friends for a while, I thought it was heavy, unwieldy, very slow and noisy with the auto focus and produced medium quality results. From memory, they nearly all migrated to the Canon 100-400mm and were delighted with the quality improvement and ease of use.
Whilst the 150mm - 600mm seems highly regarded (I haven't used one), if Sigma were aiming at the keen wildlife/sports/aircraft photographer, I would have thought that a 300mm - 600mm would be ideal. A practical zoom range for those genres, less compromises in design and manufacture, lighter than high zoom models, faster focussing and all that combined should produce a more user friendly, faster product. With that specification, it shouldn't be overly difficult to make a faster lens of f5.6, possibly even f4.5.
I am left wondering whether Sigma made this following solid Market Research, or they made it just because they could!Colin
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