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The big question with this lens is whether the autofocus is fast enough to track flying birds. And the zoom could be quite useful to shoot tight shots and group shots or to zoom in and out as birds approach. When you have good light for birds in flight, you have plenty of light to shoot at f/6.3. What do you think about the Sigma 150-600 Contemporary for birds in flight, say out at the Bosque del Apache in your backyard in New Mexico?ĭoug: Well, there the slow aperture is not an issue. But, Doug, your specialty is birds in flight. This is the kind of thing I really like to do in my wildlife and bird photography so the zoom is great. I've absolutely loved the ability to zoom for tight shots of a wildlife subject and then pull back for more environmental portraits. I've been putting the lens to use the last few months here in Costa Rica as well as in the cloud forest of Ecuador, the Amazon rainforest of Peru, and the Atacama desert of Chile. Also, I simply love the look of f/2.8! But the Sigma 150-600 offers me three things – the ability to get out to 600 mm without using teleconverters, the ability to zoom for composition in-camera (I'm a nerd that way!), and the ability to have a long lens for hiking in the rainforest or for certain trips where I don't want to carry a heavier prime.
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Like I said, I'm not going to sell my Canon 300 mm f/2.8 because there are times when I need the speed of that fast aperture. What about you, Greg? Shooting in the tropical rainforest is your bread and butter, and you're not strictly a bird guy. So for me, it's a lens that I think is very useful for tropical bird photography. That's very useful, and with the excellent handling of high ISOs in today's DSLR bodies, it's not that big an issue, especially when you consider that for bird photography, you'll often want to stop down a bit to have your depth of field cover the head and shoulders of your subject.
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(Blog readers, please feel free to give your best guess as a comment below!)ĭoug: Well, it's not ideal, but we're talking about a sharp performer in a light package that gets you out to 600 mm for $1000. I actually didn't remember which lens I used for each picture so I had to look at the metadata to remind myself, and that was the same even when viewed large. Lenses used were the Sigma 150-600 mm Contemporary version, the Canon 500 mm f/4 prime with a 1.4x TC, and the Canon 600 mm f/4 prime (the pics below are not necessarily in that order). Greg: Indeed, just take a look at the pictures below. But in fact, and this is not hyperbole, we had trouble telling which pictures were taken with the Sigma Contemporary and which we shot with the Canon 600 mm f/4 and the Canon 500 mm f/4 with a 1.4x! It's precisely at the widest aperture and the longest focal length that many telephoto zooms tend to fall apart. To be able to get out to 600 mm for less than $1000 and in a package that weighs just over 4 pounds is awesome.ĭoug: Definitely, and what really impressed both of us is that the performance of the Contemporary at 600 mm even wide open at f/6.3 was quite good.
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I'll take my 300 mm prime with teleconverters, and I'm sure you, Doug, would take a 500 mm or a 600 mm prime.
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If I want to lug around a lens that weighs 6 plus lbs. Greg: I totally agree, and that's why I made the same choice. Greg: So, Doug what made you choose the Contemporary over the Sport?ĭoug: I found it to be just as sharp and fast to autofocus as the Sport version but in a much lighter package and at less than half the price.