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

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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 features Sigma’s service can change the mount of the lens between Sony’s E-mount and L-mount (at a cost). This is a unique feature that no other manufacturer offers. [++] water and oil repellent coating applied to the front element, gives peace of mind even in harsh environments. The lens features a Dual Action Zoom, which supports both straight zoom and ring zoom, allowing you to change

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. There is pincushion distortion on the three lenses but that is minimised when the lens profile is applied. Curiously, the Tamron is the one that needs less correction than the other two models. With static subjects, all three lenses deliver fast and accurate focus, and I didn’t encounter any unwelcome behaviour or particular problem during my two weeks testing them.Sigma’s 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG DN OS zoom lens clearly bests the Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7 Di III VC especially at the longer focal lengths. Taking into account that I compared the Sigma at 450mm and 600mm to the Tamron at 400mm and 500mm this makes the results even more impressive: At the long end the Sigma provides 20% more magnification/reach and delivers a sharper image than the Tamron. Stopping down to f8 does not yield much of an improvement so you can confidently use the Sigma wide open. Above: Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7 Di III VC coverage on a full-frame camera at 150mm (left) and 500mm (right), Distortion Compensation AUTO With the fast and high-precision AF, 4 stops image stabilization, and a wide range of customizable functionality that comes with the SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports, the creative possibilities are limitless. The Sony 200-600 blows the other ultra-zooms out of the water. All of them produce nice photos, but the Sony's handling is far better than the other options. Having a heavy 1/2 focus throw makes most of the lenses kind of impractical to use. The Sony comparatively has a 1/4 turn throw, and it's fingertip light.

The 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. Sigma WR Ceramic Protector Filter 95mm - stronger, thinner and lighter protection for the front element Focus accuracy and repeatability is critical to consistently produce sharp shots. Repeatability (the accuracy of focus on the same subject after repeated focus-acquisition) of the Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG DN OS under well-lit test conditions is good (measured 96.4% in Reikan FoCal) but shows some focus variation especially when focusing from further away. And there was one clearly misfocused shot over a series of 40 shots. At 200mm focal length the lens focuses in around 0.7 sec from infinity to 2.08m (1:10 magnification). In darker conditions (+5EV) I encountered a lot of hunting at focal lengths of 300mm and beyond.

Finally, you might have noticed in some of the side by side images that the Sony tends to render cooler colours in comparison to the other two lenses. 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. The rearmost lens element is deeply inset, allowing use of Sigma's 1.4x and 2x teleconverters for L-mount shooters. Sadly, E-mount equivalents aren't available. Let’s compare the new Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG DN OS (“Sigma 150-600 DN” for short) to the Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7 Di III VC (“Tamron 150-500”) and Sony FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G OSS (“Sony 200-600″). For good measure I’ve also added the Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports (Sigma 150-600 HSM Sports”) and Tamron SP AF 150-600mm f5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (“Tamron 150-600”) to the mix. Although both lenses are older DSLR designs they were popular lenses then and still can be used via Sigma’s MC-11 Canon EF to Sony E mount converter – which adds 26mm in length, approx. 120g in weight and 250 EUR in costs. As usual I’ve rated the features with a [+] (or [++]), when it’s better than average or even state of the art, a [0] if it’s standard or just average, and [-] if there’s a disadvantage.