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This lens is good value for someone after a lens for bird or wildlife photography, not a particular fast focusing but you can't expect too much for the price range
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Excellent product for long range photography, good quality lens. Sigma lenses are renowned for their quality. The lens is used for specialised photography such as wildlife. The lens are the current series and worth buying through eBay where you will save over 40% of the standard retail if you buy it secondhand.
Good equipment. Cheaper then the shops. Good place to buy it. They have quite a few items. Have a look.
I bought this lens for the few occasions when you cannot physically get close enough to your subject with more compact lenses, be it wildlife, action on the water or just unusual angles. Reviews of earlier versions of this lens raised the concern of it possibly being a bit too soft above 400mm focal length. Whilst there can be some softness wide open by about f8 this becomes insignificant. I'm using this lens on a D7100 and find it well balanced, fast and accurate to focus and quite sharp. Bokeh is a weak point. Build quality is good, it feels solid and as a consequence is quite bulky and heavy to lug around, not part of my everyday kit. I wouldn't take it into wet or dusty environments since it does not appear to have any weather-sealing. Overall it is quite a nice lens with image stabilization, about half the price of the new Tamron 150-600 and a hell of a lot cheaper than anything Nikon at this focal length. Being third party of course means you miss out on some the Nikon-specific bonuses such as auto distortion correction but for this sort of money there will be compromises. Would I buy it again? Yes, unless I win Lotto and buy Nikon glass!Read full review
I am extremely happy with the Sigma 150-500 lens as it suits my needs perfectly as a serious novice type photographer. I use the lens for wildlife & sport photography & have found it real value for money.
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