Need some advice

What about this lens:
Sigma Zoom Telephoto 135-400mm f/4.5-5.6 APO Aspherical Autofocus Lens
Its about $539 from b&h.com

Found the same lens for $442 from digital foto club.

I could get it amd the Canon MK II 1.8 and the backpak for the $1K

The Sigma 135-400 has gotten some fairly good reviews. That might be a good one to look at for your purpose.

wolf wrote:
The Sigma 135-400 has gotten some fairly good reviews. That might be a good one to look at for your purpose.

Thanks Wolf, this was what I was looking for. Reviews on the lens. I don't plan on taking shots of anything moving fast so that won't be a problem. I just need something I can reach out there with.

After doing some more searching I found this lens for $555
Sigma 170-500/5-6.3 APO Zoom Lens f/ Canon AF USA

Anyone use it? Samples?

Check out www.pbase.com and go to the camera database. You can find sample for just about any lens on the market there.

Here are some samples there for the Sigma 170-500mm

Thanks. Is it me or does those images seem "blah" to you?

That's pretty hard to tell ... because anytime you follow the link, you get a random sample of some 900 photographs from PBase taken with that lens.

So I don't know which photographs you looked at, buy among the ones I saw, there were some nice ones and a lot that are just so-so. Guess the photographer plays a role, too

But while the Canon 70-200/4.0 L will certainly deliver better image quality ... it's just 200 mm. With the 1.4 teleconverter, you could get it to roughly 280 mm, though.

If you spend a bit more money, however, you could get the 'Bigma' ... the Sigma 50-500. This is reputed to be one very fine lens for the money it costs ($ 1000) and its ownly downside is that is weighs nearly as much as your AR15 (4.1 lb)

Best regards,
Andy

Thanks for the help. I belive I've made my mind up.

Going to go with the:
1. Sigma 135-400 f/4.5-5.6 APO Aspherical AF Lens
2. Canon MK II 1.8 Lens
3. Lowepro Pro Trekker AW II Pak
4. Lens cleaning kit.

I can recommend to look at the Sigma 100-300 f/4 HSF lens - it's getting wonderful reviews across the web. It seems to be VERY fast focussing, quite sharp, has very good build quality and constant aperture of f/4. You can get it here for $785. Then you can add the Sigma x1.4 TC and end up with 140-420 f/5.6 and still enjoy very high quality pictures.

yea be careful about judging on that website i jsut looked up the 100-400L and all the pics looked worse then what i could do with my crapp 75-300 mk III, so wouldnt totally judge the lens on what u see on pbase...

Thanks for the help guys. I belive i'm going to get the setup I mentioned a couple posts above. I would love to have the L glass but man they are expensive.