Sigma 100-300 DL?

[mdude85]

I'm looking for any info anyone would have about shooting with the Sigma 100-300 4.5-6.7 DL. Seems highly rated on photographyreview.com, just looking for some opinions and/or 100% crops if you've got them. Thank you!

[elbirth]

I don't have any 100% pictures taken with it readily available, but I have one and it seems to be a fairly decent lens. Here's a resized picture I took with it a few weeks ago:

http://www.heycubed.net/pics/plane2.jpg

And a 50% shot of the moon I took a day or 2 before the lunar eclipse:

http://www.heycubed.net/pics/moonattempt.jpg

It seems to be a decently sharp lens, focus isn't all that slow, and overall I think performs fairly well. It's definitely not one of the sharpest lenses you'll find, but it gets the job done well.

[Cadwell]

I find the "photographyreview.com" reviews to be very unreliable. There's a tendency for people to say "I have it and it's wonderful!" irrespective of whether it is or not. After all, no-one likes to admit that they may have bought something not so good... I would be wary of putting much credence behind it.

The oft quoted photozone site http://www.photozone.de/2Equipment/easytxt.htm rates that lens as "Sigma AF 4.5-6.7 100-300mm UC DL 2.55 (3) = sub-average ".

That would seem to be a contradiction....

[ron chappel]

I have used several of those and find them to be a decent cheap telezoom lens (actually i think it's the cheapest 300mm zoom out there..?)

The results you'll get are a fair bit better than the price suggests.
I have a definite lower limit that i can tollerate in cheap zooms which is the canon 75-300 series.
That sigma is only a bit lower in image quality compared to the canon .

Here are some pics taken with one.Note that these were some of the first i got with the 300D and the day was overcast so shutter speeds were abit low

http://members.dodo.net.au/~l8r_ron/index_6.html

[Orogeny]

It's the only long lens I own. Not great, but you can get some decent pictures.

Here's one that was hand-held at 300mm.
http://www.pbase.com/orogeny/image/24339298.jpg

Here's one at about 180 mm hand held.
http://www.pbase.com/orogeny/image/28791215.jpg

It is pretty soft wide open and at 250 mm and longer.

Tim

[mdude85]

thanks for the comments so far ... bump.