thoughts of selling 150/500

Like the title states. I've been thinking of selling my sigma 150/500 and see if I could get a sharper lens. Was looking at the Canon 100/400L .

Any thoughts on this?

It depends what your copy is like and also what any particular 100-400 was like. My Siggy was nice and sharp. Are you sure it's your lens and not technique before you go mad and get on the lens swap treadmill in the vain search for that perfect one.

I posted a couple shots in the sig lens forum. Ill post 1 of today here in a bit

iso 400
500MM
f8
1/320
I ran it through LR noise preset and auto tone

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another ran some NR and sharpening on this

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Looking at lightroom shots i have at under 400mm are sharp and sharpest was 298mm

You're not close enough to your subject

^^ That and/or the technique. I have a Bigmos...

These I took today, ISO 400, at 500mm, f/8 and f/6 and handheld. Were saved by L4 due to shooting the subject heavily backlit. Not stellar but they are sharp.

DreDaze wrote in post #15000602
You're not close enough to your subject

But thats what the 500mm is for aint it. For when you cant get close to the subject

I did air show shots, and they were eh.

torkk wrote in post #15000671
But thats what the 500mm is for aint it. For when you cant get close to the subject

I did air show shots, and they were eh.

It depends on how far you are. Having 500mm at hand will not magically produce super high resolution images of far away subjects. It has its limits. If you are too far....move closer. That is a basic rule of photography, even with a super tele zoom.

Also, were those handheld or not? Whats is your technique upon shooting with it? Have you checked other possibilities besides your gear?

yup hand held. As far as technique goes. I normally shot on a exhale, if I can lean on something I do. I had the ISO bumped up for much fast shutter.

torkk wrote in post #15000671
But thats what the 500mm is for aint it. For when you cant get close to the subject

I did air show shots, and they were eh.

Yeah it's for when you can't get close, but you still want the subject to fill a decent amount of your shot.
What do you not like about your air show shots?

soft as sin for the most part, I have some posted on my site in my sig. I have a few good ones, that I ran thru sharpening. It just seems some shots need tons more sharpening and they get over processed.

This aint bad. My birding shots are horrible.

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I used LR4 with onOne prefect presets to sharpen and NR

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500mm
1/800
F/8
ISO 1250
No adjustments in lightroom