All of these tests are shot at f/6.3. The reason I'm showing the tests at f/6.3 is that it's the most common focal length you'd shoot this lens at. C: Sigma’s “Contemporary” series. Basically, it distinguishes it from its “Art” and “Sports” ranges. Overall, the Contemporary series lenses are more designed for general everyday photography, with their own combination of price, optical performance, speed, portability, and versatility. The Art series leans more heavily on optical performance and is less worried about things like focusing speed. While the Sports series aims for, well, sports, but also nature and wildlife photography. The categories are more useful in marketing than in practice, but when there’s overlap in the focal lengths, the Art and Sports options tend to be more expensive, with the Contemporary series aiming more for the enthusiast end of the market. Focusing is usefully internal and manual focusing is possible when set via the Focus switch on the lens barrel. Full-time manual focus override is also available by setting the Focus switch to the new MO mode and then rotating the focus ring. In this article I’ll be applying both of these considerations as I review Sigma’s new bundle, and make comparisons between the Sigma and Tamron lenses. All images in this article were captured with the Sigma 150-600mm with the 1.4x TC.

This is a real 3-D tree trunk, so only the center is in focus while the sides are farther away and not in focus. This is an all-around excellent lens that's absolutely worth the money for E-mount and L-mount users. See our full Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports review. 150-600mm lens alternativesIt is an interface between the computer and the Sigma lens. I’ll outline the calibration procedure based on how I approached the setup. Now, How do Set It? World's only 60-600mm zoom. Just like the Canon 100-400mmLISII, it does enough that if you don't mind the Sigma's jumbo size it can be the only lens you need to carry in addition to a wide zoom.

I’ve conducted experiments with my Sigma 150-600 Contemporary lens during my adventure shoots. Through these, I’ve discovered some crucial tips to enhance the sharpness of my photographs. The Sport version is later described as having “dust and splashproof construction” while the Contemporary is only described as having a “dust and splashproof mount.”Some of the reviewers I found said they felt the Sport had an very slight edge in sharpness, and others felt, as I did, that the Contemporary was just barely sharper. Inside this box are two folded cardboard ends holding the lens, hood and caps in its case, as well as USA warranty paperwork, folded multi-language instruction sheet and an Allen wrench and spare screws for the tripod collar foot. There is also a 105mm snap-in front cap in the bottom of the box you might not notice.

I prefer and own camera brand lenses, but if you really need the broader zoom range of this lens, it works extremely well. My biggest concern is that you can get the real Nikon or Canon lenses for the same price. It's been this way for 50 years: off-brand lenses have always offered better on-paper specifications for less money than name brands, but their mechanical, optical and future compatibility are what you're losing in exchange. Today optical quality has advanced to the point that this lens performs extremely well, but it's not built as well nor can it focus as fast as the Canon 100-400mmLISII, and it costs more than the Nikon 200-500mm which has about the same optical quality.The Moon, 0246 UTC 26 October 2018. Canon EOSR, 1.6x APS-C crop, EF Control Ring Adapter, Extender EF 1.4x II, Extender EF 2x II and Sigma 60-600mm set to 600mm, giving an effective 1,680mm focal length, 1/30 at ISO 1,600 at full aperture. bigger. Again, with an APS-C camera body, distortion with this super-telephoto is not seen. Full-frame cameras will likely have a little bit of pin cushion distortion, but I wouldn't expect enough to cause a hit to image quality when adjusted in post-processing.

Even if you go out of your way to turn off automatic correction or are shooting this on film, even without correction there is no visible distortion except at 60mm. There is no visible distortion from 100-500mm, and even at 600mm it's mostly invisible even uncorrected. There are probably no color fringes on Nikon cameras, which by default correct for any that may be there. All lenses in this comparison cover full frame sensors or can equally be used on a cropped APS-C camera body. [+]Astonishingly my Canon EOSR with EF Adapter reads lens correction data and corrects automatically for falloff (peripheral illumination), lateral color fringes (chromatic aberration), distortion and diffraction. You can turn each of these ON or OFF in various ways. My Canon 5DS/R doesn't have the ability to correct distortion; that's a limitation of this model camera.