Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM SLD Ultra Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital DSLR Camera
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- Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM APO Lens - Nikon
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Sigmas APO 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM is an advanced optical design of this 10x power high-performance zoom lens that covers the standard-to-super- telephoto range, now with the added advantage of Sigmas own Optical Stabilization which offers the use of shutter speeds approximately 4 stops slower than would otherwise be possible. Sigma is the only one to offer OS for Sony and Pentax mount where the image is stabilized in the viewfinder if chosen. For many photographers, having an "all-in-one" lens is an absolute dream. Especially for nature photographers, the idea of a lens suitable for landscape photography at the short end of the zoom range, while still having enough reach for wildlife is a great option. Add to that, the ability to close focus on small objects in the field such as flowers and its the perfect backpackers lens. Four SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass elements provide optimum color correction & sharpness throughout the entire zoom range and super Multi-Layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting and assures high image quality throughout the entire zoom range. With no need to change lenses, there is less chance of dirt or moisture entering the camera and fouling the imaging sensor.
Brand: Sigma
Focal Length Description: 50-500 millimeters
Lens Type: Telephoto
Compatible Mountings: Nikon F (FX)
Camera Lens Description: Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM SLD Ultra Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital DSLR Camera
Product Dimensions: 8.62 x 4.09 x 4.09 inches
Item Weight: 4.34 pounds
Item model number: 738306
Batteries: 1 9V batteries required.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Date First Available: March 3, 2010
Manufacturer: Sigma Corporation of America
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Top Amazon Reviews
Style: Canon Digital DSLR Camera
The Sigma Bigma is a great lens. The price is not trivial, but well without reason and cheaper than any comparable considering the level of performance. I shoot almost every day, just for the joy of doing it. My primary interest being photography, I'm also a camera collector. Mostly of things I would have liked to have owned in their day. Leica screw mounts are my favorites from early to late. I have an extraordinary IIIg, in the first 25 ever made that from all we can tell was never actually used, i.e. a showroom piece. It needed a CLA. To stipulate, I was a working pro for 11 years, doing news, advertising illustration and anything else I could sell. I've owned and worked with sub 35mm to 8x10. I loved the work, the reasons I left were complex.Before that I worked as an apprentice for four years in an old school portrait house. But I've worked with and own all manner of lenses. In my earliest days we still worked with Big Berthas, 5x7 Graflex SLRS with VERY Long lenses or the Baby Berthas which were 4x5 Graflex SLRs with much the same lenses mounted. i.e. there was no specific lens. But imagine a Graflex, hood and all, with 2,000 or 3,000 mm lens. My preferred cameras of the period were Nikon Fs and compatible lenses. For the most part I was Nikon-Nikon. Then it was Olympus OMs - I was no longer in the trade, but they suited me. Now it's Canon, no dig on Nikon or Olympus, which won me over after my working Nikons were stolen. The Bigma is a great lens. There is no directly comparable L lens and just as well, It would be a very tough call if faced with that call. I might have scraped around to buy one. But price is a factor in any even. But quality matters to me. I've owned a first rate Canon D0 70-300, a great lens, which costs a fair chunk. It was out of action for a few weeks and I bought a Sigma 70-300 substitute until the damage could be repaired. The Sigma costs a fraction of the L and it's performance was pretty damned good and it had some nice features, e.g. Macro focusing, that the Canon didn't have. Now they come with this monster. My primary camera now is a Canon 5D Mark II and the full frame is brutal on lenses. I sometimes see reviews from users who cite vignetting on cropped sensor cameras from a lens that in my experience doesn't vignette much on the full frame at full frame wide open, but most primes vignette a bit wide open. This Sigma is a significantly different lens than the previous Sigma lens of the same zoom range, i.e. 50-500. For one thing the filter size has increased substantially which seems to reflect not random desire, but n overall improvement of the optics. It might seem that going 50-500 is a real stretch given the weight of this monster, 4.5 pounds, which should be double strapped or bagged for carry with the 5D2. It's not. There's nothing more frustrating than have a prime 500mm mounted and suddenly you need a quick shot of something close, not wide, but normal; the Bigma covers it. This is not a lens you want to wear routinely for 10x zoom, as we sometimes do with the consumer-prosumer cameras. That weight will wear on you. I'm now pushing 70, severely arthritic and easily fatigued. I have to balance not just how I carry, but what I carry. Yet, I so love full frame. I finally stopped carrying film cameras on travel, both from added weight and the vastly improved quality of digital. For me in most circumstances it's superior. Some have mentioned monopods as a minimum requirement. There are alternatives, i.e. similar to movie mounts. I don't disagree with the monopod and use mine carbon fiber lightweight when I can. This is where the f 6.3 maximum aperture comes into play at longer focal lengths. At nominal 500 mm, Bob Atkins says it's very close to an honest 500mm and while that changes as you move to shorter focusing distances so the focal length is less. The combination of very long focal length, weight, etc., make controlling shake or camera movement critical. This is one of my highest areas of praise. Working from a sitting position or similar, using my chest to brace elbows, I've managed crisp pictures at 1/5th or less wide open. Not what I'd recommend trying for a money shot, but it wasn't a fluke. I've done a lot of sharp images at speeds of under 1/30th of a second. I was always good at long hand=helds, but age doesn't help as a rule, so I'm reasonably convinced that it's a good system. I have not done exhaustive tests of the lengths at different focal lens and f/stops. I will say this. Canon specs call for a lens that is faster than f/5.6 to make its autofocusing work. been surprised the auto-focus works as well as it does, which is 90 percent of the time which surprises me given that it works even at f 6.3 most of the time including times when i have trouble seeing what it's focusing on. I was born and raised a manual focus man who appreciates the auto-focus systems. But I try not to pretend it answers for everything. People who claim one camera system or another is superior on focusing miss something. The further up the ladder you move on pro or semi-pro cameras, the more you're supposed to know. As the "Digital Journalist" said, Auto-Focus is a wonderful crutch, but every user needs to know how to focus the thing. The manual focus override works well on this lens. I can b difficult in low light/low contest if there's not enough contrast for the focusing system. I can only that no one should plan a money shot in a place they haven't checked out and considered why interrupts focusing sensors. With this lens, when you need selective focus, you really want to ride heard on focus. One other note, because there are some very good posts on this lens. Having working with a top quality 500mm prime, I don't think this lens will produced the same quality image as an equivalent prime. FWIW, None of my expensive Canon L's really ensure up to the primes at the same focal length. Don't mistake me. The 24-70 and 24-105 and the rest are great lenses. Just that s a rule, a prime is different to the discerning eye. Butto finish this off, I'm very impressed by the low light contrast of the lens. I've shot images of Dandelions and flowers of ornamental grass, wide open,where this lens makes a higher contrast image (int he right way) that allows you to see just how finely focused and high definition this lens is capable of. At thispoint, for this focal length soon, there's not a better one on the market with this much verstatility. If the relatively slow F/Stop bothers you, remember this, for from 4.5 to F/2.8 would probably cos at least twice this weight. If you're a birder, especially if you're using a high MP 1.6 crop of real quality, e.g. the 7D, this is a really important lens. Especially if you can sit on your deck or porch or whatever. You shouldn't plan on using this lens with a non-Sigma extender. That's not unusual. I have some lens that work fine with non-oem extenders. But there are canon lenses that really don't do well with non-OEM brands. Also, if you're lucky and have enough light, it will probably auto-focus with the 1.4x, but almost certainly not the 2.0x. Lastly, there are two Sigma 50-500mm lenses. The old one doesn't measure up to the new lens. It tends to have less contrast and crispness. It's not a bad lens. But the difference between the old discontinued lens and this one is huge. I've used the old one and wouldn't buy it. This one, I bought and I own. I could have sent it back. I did send back a prime lens of another make in this area of focal length.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2011 by Older Dog
Style: Canon Digital DSLR Camera
I recently had a very difficult choice to make... I was looking to extend my range a bit (my longest lens was a 75-300) and after thinking it over for a fair amount of time I went with the Sigma 50 - 500. Part of that decision came down to the fact that I already have a sigma 1.4x teleconverter which gives me effectively 70 - 700 with this lens. My first impression upon arrival was BIG. It's very big. Did I say that it's big? Oh, by the way, it's very heavy too! I'm an average sized 42 yr old guy, but I've already made the mental note that when possible I'll have the tripod with me to use this lens. You'd have to be pretty strong to use this lens as a carry around lens for any length of time. That said, if you've got the strength, from what I've seen this lens could do it. The Optical Stabilization (IS for canon users, I believe VR for Nikon) is very good. Zoomed way out I couldn't hold it steady handheld, but when you hit the button and that OS kicks in, it levels off very well. I found that the teleconverter doesn't allow me to use autofocus... that doesn't really concern me much, but in playing around I've realized that it only adds 500-700 for me and I lose 50-70. Honestly, looking at the difference I don't gain that much. 500 seems to give me just about all the range I need. I also don't lose a stop of light, though I've been using it outside in the sun so the light really hasn't been an issue. My next choice would have been the Canon 100-400L. I'd love to hear (constructive) comments about how or if I screwed up. I never got to play with the canon to know. Overall I am very happy so far. If you buy, I hope you are as happy as I am with the purchase and thanks for taking the time to read my review. Addition to review 8/23/2014: I've now had the 50-500 for a year and a half. I am now even more impressed with it than I was when I bought it. One other lens I debated when I bought this lens was the sigma 150-500. I had read several reviews where people had said that with this lens you are never going to take a shot where you aren't at 500mm so go with the cheaper of the two. (The 150-500 is significantly less expensive.) I thought that made sense, but something in me made me go with the 50-500. In my case it has paid off. I've used it for many ranges. I've found that for one, it allows me to frame a shot just about anywhere. As an example I have a picture posted of a small yellow bird on a sunflower that I added to the 50-500 sample pictures in amazon. That bird was only 20 or so feet away from me, but having the 500mm allowed me to fill nearly the entire frame with the bird and the OS allowed me to get the shot hand held. I also shot fireworks this year on the 4th and this was the only lens I took. I knew if I went too long I'd have to hunt for the fireworks and if I went too wide they'd be lost in the city lights. With the 50-500 I knew I'd be able to get whatever zoom I needed and the shots came out fantastic! (One of those is posted as well.) Since I've owned this lens there have been many times where I've had an idea and I knew that I don't have any other lens that could get the shot I'm looking for. Oh, I also mentioned in the original review that when I used the sigma 1.4 telextender I did not have autofocus on my 40d. I've now found that with my 70d I do. Honestly, I still don't use the telexender with it that much, but I do have autofocus now if I do put it on. (I use the telextender fairly often with my sigma 150mm f/2.8 macro so I'm not knocking it, I just don't usually feel I need it with this lens.) Thanks again for taking the time to read my review and if you buy it I hope you are as happy as I am.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2013 by William E. Liberatore William E. Liberatore
Style: Canon Digital DSLR Camera
-This lens is unacceptable. Sigma should remove this line from production until they get this lens to work properly. -Sigma makes zoom lenses with interesting range, the range we dream about such as 18-250. 50-500. I bought the 18-250 in the past and it was satisfactory. So i thought the 50 to 500 will be the same- I was wrong. -The main problem with this lens is that it does not auto focus at all beyond 200 mm. Another reviewer had the same problem. - It hunts a lot between 50 and 200. While it is hunting especially over 200 it makes loud noises to the point you feel that your camera is about to get messed up. - You will miss all the action by the time you manually focus. -I own canon 7D. I bought canon 100-400 lens to replace the Sigma 50-500. What a big difference the canon lens focuses very fast from 100 to 400. I give the Canon lens 5 stars. The push and pull zoom on the canon will let you zoom to your action fast. And the focusing is very fast and quiet.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2011 by james smith