| Latest Review Posted | Sigma DG HSM APO 150-500mm F5-6.3
I'll give this big thing a 9. It's a really good lens. Come on. It doesn't cost all that much for a 500mm lens, and it does perfectly adequate job. Here's a bird air braking, at 500mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec:
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IMGP8590.jpg by jiimaa, on Flickr
Here's a swan giving a show
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Then another one takes a quick bath
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And proceeds to one-up the show, only to find audience not impressed
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Eventually gives up and patrols around the nest turf instead
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The obvious flaws with this are the size, and that you can't get a good 500mm without shoving in some 4-digit $$$. Those are a given. Now that you're looking a budget lens, here are the less obvious things you'll run into with the 150-500 non-os:
Sharpness isn't very good. Nothing like a 70-200 would do, or a DA*300. Just forget it. Still, it does very good job... if you don't pixel peep any closer than 1:2, then it is needle sharp. And that's pretty good. So stay away from the crop tool, resize to 50 % when you're done in the post, and you're good.
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