150-600mm F5/-6.3 DG DN for Sony E

Product Information

To avoid bloating the article too much, I didn’t include every single aperture and focal length in my side by side shots. Instead, I concentrated on the examples that show you the most important differences between the three lenses.

Sigma includes a lens hood in the product bundle, and it's definitely worth using. It's rubberized on the end, secured by a thumb screw, and reversible so you can store it around the lens barrel when not in use. The reason that you'll want to use the lens hood is that long telephoto lenses tend to have issues with flare, and this one is definitely no exception. And even with it mounted, when shooting towards bright light sources like the sun you can get a very significant loss of contrast and a washed-out look. The lens extends by quite a long way - about an additional 10cms - when zoomed all the way out from 150mm to 600mm. The zoom ring is generously wide and has a ridged, rubberised grip band. The 150-600mm Sports lens combines high precision AF, which is fully compatible with Sony’s Autofocus systems, with impressive functionality aimed to enhance your workflow and excellent build quality as required for demanding ‘ultra-telephoto’ subjects. Key featuresThe 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports combines the build quality that upholds the SIGMA Sports line standards with excellent operability, taking into account different shooting environments and modes of operation expected with an ultra-telephoto lens. Weight: At 2090g (4.6 lb.) (incl. tripod collar) plus 150g for the lens hood the new Sigma is much, much lighter than its predecessor: the Sigma 150-600 HSM Sports was 2860g (without lens hood). It is still not a light lens. The Tamron 150-500 is only 1725g + 95g lens hood + 155g tripod collar, the Sony 200-600 is 2115g (without lens hood or tripod foot), the Tamron 150-600 is 1784g + 108g lens hood + 200g tripod collar. [0] The SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports offers outstanding optical performance throughout its zoom range and at all apertures, yielding professional quality results. Also with PS, Lr, ON1 Photo Raw 2019, Capture One, and GigaPixel you can enlarge your images to more pixels anyway so no sweat with capture image size. Cameras – LCD screen is heavily worn either by de-lamination or has scratches to it. Rubber grips are starting to come away from the body.

I'm not sure if youre like me in this way but I actually prefer to handhold my camera for most, especially fast moving, wildlife. I can easily do that with lenses like the Sigma 150-600mm. Combine that light weight with fast autofocus and that's a winner for me. Sell the kit you’re not using to MPB. Trade in for the kit you need to create. Buy used, spend less and get more. Buy. Sell. Trade. Create. Lenses – Should have no marks on the elements andoptically clear. There may be light dust present that will not effect theimagery. Park Cameras Limited is a credit broker, not a lender and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 720279). We do not charge you for credit broking services. We will introduce you exclusively to finance products provided by Duologi.model of camera used. This ensures that key settings are able to be customised to suit your shooting style and With 35mm-equivalent focal lengths equating to 225-900mm with an APS-C crop, it's aimed primarily at still photographers looking to bring distant subjects up close, and will be of particular interest to wildlife and sports shooters.

Since I already have the a6100, I am thinking about selling the 80D and Sigma lens and buy the Sony 200-600mm. Eventually, I would like to add a Sony full-frame camera that is good for landscape and wildlife.

ADVERTISEMENT

The Tamron is the smallest and lightest of the three, and you come to really appreciate its more compact dimensions. It remains shorter, albeit not by much, when extended to 500mm. From left to right: Sony 200-600mm, Sigma 150-600mm and Tamron 150-500mm Sigma has finally come up with a modern mirrorless design for a super-telephoto lens with a 4x zoom range: They managed to make it much lighter, optically better, and also cheaper than its predecessor – not a small feat! Optical performance is the best I’ve seen so far on a zoom lens reaching beyond 400mm focal length. But 3 out of 3 copies of the lens could only reach these results when used in landscape orientation: As soon as I turned to portrait orientation corner sharpness deteriorated significantly. A serious fault that Sigma hopefully can remedy. But other than that Sigma has designed a very compelling super-telephoto zoom which clearly earns a Highly Recommended – with the caveat that you need to find a good copy! Based on the latest optical design technology, its lens construction of 25 elements in 15 groups includes a range of special types of high-performance glass that ensures thorough control of different types of aberrations. This helps give images the resolution and clearest detail—not only at the tele end around 600mm, which is critical for an ultra-telephoto zoom, but also throughout its entire zoom range—with no compromise. The lens was designed with image quality in the out-of-focus areas in mind as well, with attractive compression and beautiful bokeh for creating eye-catching images that can only be achieved with a long focal length.

For E-mount owners, however, there are a couple of direct rivals and also some caveats to bear in mind. Of course, you're not buying a lens like this for the wide end of the range. At its 600mm telephoto, we're still very impressed with center sharpness even wide-open at F6.3, and there's only a slight improvement in stopping down to F9. The extreme corners definitely aren't as strong, though, even when focus is set there. And stopping down to F9 only brings a more modest improvement in sharpness. Concerning manual focus, the focus ring on the Tamron lens is not as smooth as the other two at first glance. However, after focusing manually several times for my sharpness and close-up tests, I found that it is the Sigma lens that gives you the most accurate and pleasant experience. With the Tamron and the Sony, it is a bit more difficult to nail focus precisely.When shooting at the maximum aperture of f/5, you can see some slight vignetting at 150mm. It’s not hugely noticeable when shooting normal subjects, but you can see it when photographing a white wall. The effect is much more minimal when shooting at 600mm at f/6.3. Throughout the focal lengths, the problem almost completely disappears when you close down the aperture to f/11.