Sigma 300-800mm f/5.6 EX HSM -Sigmonster-

First really nice weekend of the year and the birds are out en-masse in our garden, including many Goldfinches all here for the niger seed feeder.

Visit last weekend to Meiringen-Switserland on behalf celebrating a 75-year (military) airport existance.

A lot of visitors but managed to squeeze in the Sigmonster

Dispite bad weather some nice shots.

First picture wiht 5dIII - ISO 400 - 1/800 - F/10
Second with 5dIII - ISO 400 - 1/1000 - F/11

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This with the latest version of the 300-800, the DG:

American Pika

Two pics to share with you:
1) Portraiture in the city of my home town
2) A heron in the wintersun
Both at 800mm
Greetings from Ghent, Belgium

It's hard to believe that there has only been one post to this thread in over three years. Sheesh! I would have thought that this lens would be much more popular than it appears to be, given its extreme versatility and relatively low price.

I want to thank Cyber Dyne Systems - a.k.a. Jake - for bringing my attention back to these lens sample threads.

Anyway, here are a couple recent images I shot with my Sigmonster. . Both are uncropped. . The Black Skimmer is at 434mm and the Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel is at 687mm, both on a Canon 1D Mark 4.

Fate has put another copy of this lens into my hands. A very good price on a like new DG copy popped up as i wait for an EOS R-5 to make it's way across the country to my door. I figure between the R5's IBIS and it's ability to AF with all kinds of small aperture, a 1600mm f/11 lens (with 2X T-Con) sounds like it might come in handy

I hadn't forgotten, but I was still unprepared for just how heavy and long this lens is. It makes my 500mm f/4 look positively economy!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19153633
Fate has put another copy of this lens into my hands. A very good price on a like new DG copy popped up as i wait for an EOS R-5 to make it's way across the country to my door. I figure between the R5's IBIS and it's ability to AF with all kinds of small aperture, a 1600mm f/11 lens (with 2X T-Con) sounds like it might come in handy

I hadn't forgotten, but I was still unprepared for just how heavy and long this lens is. It makes my 500mm f/4 look positively economy!

I've still got mine. I might move it on in the spring to make way for something long and white because believe it or not I've never owned one of the Canon super-teles and I feel an overhaul of my kit coming on.

A few of the first shots taken with the R5, both with teleconverters.


@ 1600mm with 2X T-Con

Photo from CyberDyneSystems's gallery.

Photo from CyberDyneSystems's gallery.

And a few taken a few weeks back at the feeder with the EOS-R before the R5 arrived;

1120mm with 1.4X

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CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19153633
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Fate has put another copy of this lens into my hands. A very good price on a like new DG copy popped up as i wait for an EOS R-5 to make it's way across the country to my door. I figure between the R5's IBIS and it's ability to AF with all kinds of small aperture, a 1600mm f/11 lens (with 2X T-Con) sounds like it might come in handy

I hadn't forgotten, but I was still unprepared for just how heavy and long this lens is. It makes my 500mm f/4 look positively economy!
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Congratulations, Jake!

Yes, the prices on this lens have really fallen in the past few years. . It is an amazing value, compared to other premium quality long lenses. . There really is nothing else like it, inasmuch as versatility at very long focal lengths. . I wish you the best as you enjoy your 2nd stint with this lens!


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Here's a pic of me using the lens to photograph some of my local Loons, and then one of the photos I took with it. . I love being able to shoot at 800mm, but then being able to zoom out, because 800mm is often too tight for a lot of wildlife and bird opportunities.

Gorgeous! (the Loon shot!!)

Man, I'd love to get those Loons in their summer colors. I get them here in MD in the winter months when they don't have those colors.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19159758
A few of the first shots taken with the R5, both with teleconverters.


@ 1600mm with 2X T-Con

Gallery photo:
posted by CyberDyneSystems originally in forum: Canon Digital Cameras

@ 3200mm with two 2X Teleconverters stacked

Gallery photo:
posted by CyberDyneSystems originally in forum: Canon Digital Cameras

Wow Jake! These are both excellent shots!! And stacking two 2.0 TC's are amazing! Hand held or on a tripod? I am thinking tripod because of the weight of the 300-800mm.

I am guessing your TC's are of the Canon brand, although I thought I had read a while back that Canon TC's were also NOT stackable.
When I bought my Sigma 150-600C I bought the 1.4 and 2.0 both Sigma brand but sadly found out those are not stackable.

Methodical wrote in post #19166480
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Man, I'd love to get those Loons in their summer colors. I get them here in MD in the winter months when they don't have those colors.
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And I would love to have opportunities with Canvasbacks and Wigeon like you have in your state in the winter. . Let's trade! . If you come out here in May or June, you can stay here, and I'll take you to my Loons. . They're quite cooperative. . And then I'd love to over to Maryland for your wintertime Cans and Wigeon on the Choptank in Cambridge. . Deal?


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