<<<SOLD>>>Sigma 50-150mm, Canon EF-S Mount
Aug 22, 2015 15:16:27 #
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Sigma 50-150mm F/2.8 "Fast" APO EX DC OS HSM Lens for Canon EF-S mount, includes Optical Stabilization, UV Filter, Carry Pouch, Lens Hood, front and rear caps.
This is a great lens with Excellent Glass, no scratches or marks. This is the better model of the three Sigma 50-150mm lenses.
I'm selling because I'm moving to Full Frame. $690.00 OBO. Local Pickup or PayPal OK or USPS Money Order.
PayPal preferred or other means, after it clears, then the lens will be shipped.
Sigma 50-150mm F/2.8 "Fast" APO EX DC OS HSM Lens for Canon EF-S mount, includes Optical Stabilization, UV Filter, Carry Pouch, Lens Hood, front and rear caps.
This is a great lens with Excellent Glass, no scratches or marks. This is the better model of the three Sigma 50-150mm lenses.
I'm selling because I'm moving to Full Frame. $690.00 OBO. Local Pickup or PayPal OK or USPS Money Order.
PayPal preferred or other means, after it clears, then the lens will be shipped.
Comes with all you see in this photo
No scratches, fungus or marks
Very little wear
Almost like new
Aug 24, 2015 08:23:46 #
You sure it won't work with FF? Is it an EF or EF-S mount? If the latter could you get another adapter? With EF mount you could use it with 1.4 or 2.0 extender to get equivalent cropping , albeit at loss of speed.
Aug 24, 2015 10:51:24 #
From SLRgear review:
"The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS was designed to fit the APS-C sized sensor of digital camera bodies (hence its "DC" designation): using it on a full-frame camera will result in vignetting on the sides of the captured image. It features a maximum aperture of /2.8 regardless of the focal length chosen. On a Canon body, the 50-150mm lens provides an effective field of view of 80-240mm; on other bodies, the effective field of view is 75-225mm.
The lens is available now in Canon, Nikon, Sigma, Pentax and Sony mounts, ships with a tripod mount and petal-shaped lens hood, and retails from around $1,100."
AND....
"Sharpness
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS is quite simply one of the sharpest zoom lenses we have had the opportunity to test. Even used wide open at /2.8, the lens provides tack-sharp images, from 50mm to 150mm. Stopping down the lens provides practically insignificant improvements in image sharpness: this lens is just excellent at every setting.
Diffraction limiting sets in at /11, but there is very little practical impact on image sharpness until /16, and more significantly when fully stopped down at /22.
Chromatic Aberration
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and if there is any problem with the Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS, it would be the presence of chromatic aberration. It's not surprising to see; there are 21 pieces of glass between your subject and the sensor, and fortunately, it's not overly present in images. Chromatic aberration shows up in images made with this lens in the form of magenta-green fringing in areas of high contrast, predominantly in the extreme corners of the image. If you would seek to avoid any trace of CA, shoot at 100mm where it is lowest.
Shading (''Vignetting'')
The only point where there is any real shading of the corners is when the lens is being used at /2.8. In this case we see corners which are 2/3 of a stop darker than the center, when the lens is used at 150mm; at other focal lengths at /2.8, the corners are around a half-stop darker than the center. At other focal lengths and apertures, corner shading isn't really a problem.
Distortion
Distortion is kept remarkably low for a zoom lens: there is some light barrel distortion when the lens is used between 50-70mm (+0.4%), and very light pincushion distortion when the lens is used between 100-150mm (-0.2%). There is a nice sweet spot of parity at the 80mm mark where distortion is negligible.
Autofocus Operation
Built with Sigma's HSM specification, focus is conducted hypersonically, meaning it is very fast and virtually silent: the lens took less than a second to go from close-focus to infinity. If you're using a compatible body, that is: if your SLR body doesn't support HSM, it won't autofocus at all. Autofocus results can be adjusted at any time by just turning the focus ring, and attached 77mm filters will not rotate.
Macro
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS HSM isn't a great macro lens: its close-focusing distance is 80cm (31 1/2 in.) and its magnification ratio is 0.16x.
Build Quality and Handling
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS HSM is a solid lens, well-built with a metal lens mount. The lens finish is Sigma's standard matte black with a slightly rubberized texture. The filter ring is a hard plastic, and accepts 77mm filters that won't rotate during focusing or zooming.
The lens sports a few higher-quality features, such as a recessed distance scale covered by a glass plate, internal focusing and a nine-bladed diaphragm. Sigma has done some impressive work under the hood, with 21 lens elements in 15 groups, including 6 SLD lens elements. There are two switches of note: one to enable or disable autofocus, and one to enable or disable optical image stabilization. There are two optical stabilization modes available to be enabled.
The design of the lens might take some getting used to for some: the focus ring comes first, and then the zoom ring closer to the filter end of the lens. The focus ring is quite small, just 7/8'' wide with raised rubber ribs. The ring has about 120 degrees of turning action and ends in soft stops (the focus ring will keep turning, but an increase in resistance lets you know that you have reached the end).
The zoom ring is the larger of the two, quite wide at 1 3/4'' and composed with larger raised rubber ribs. The zoom ring has a throw of around 90 degrees: zoom creep is not a factor with this lens, as it uses internal focusing and thus, the length of the lens does not change with zooming or focusing. The zoom ring is nicely finished, and offers a good level of resistance when turning: it takes around two fingers to turn the ring.
The lens ships with a petal-shaped lens hood with the designation of LH850-02 589. This hood is quite large, adding 4 inches to the overall length of the lens when mounted. The hood does reverse and connect to the bayonet mount of the lens, for easy storage. The interior is ribbed to help cut down on flare. Also shipping with the lens is a removable tripod mount which turns very nicely: however, it doesn't have 90-degree click stops as other manufacturers provide.
"The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS was designed to fit the APS-C sized sensor of digital camera bodies (hence its "DC" designation): using it on a full-frame camera will result in vignetting on the sides of the captured image. It features a maximum aperture of /2.8 regardless of the focal length chosen. On a Canon body, the 50-150mm lens provides an effective field of view of 80-240mm; on other bodies, the effective field of view is 75-225mm.
The lens is available now in Canon, Nikon, Sigma, Pentax and Sony mounts, ships with a tripod mount and petal-shaped lens hood, and retails from around $1,100."
AND....
"Sharpness
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS is quite simply one of the sharpest zoom lenses we have had the opportunity to test. Even used wide open at /2.8, the lens provides tack-sharp images, from 50mm to 150mm. Stopping down the lens provides practically insignificant improvements in image sharpness: this lens is just excellent at every setting.
Diffraction limiting sets in at /11, but there is very little practical impact on image sharpness until /16, and more significantly when fully stopped down at /22.
Chromatic Aberration
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and if there is any problem with the Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS, it would be the presence of chromatic aberration. It's not surprising to see; there are 21 pieces of glass between your subject and the sensor, and fortunately, it's not overly present in images. Chromatic aberration shows up in images made with this lens in the form of magenta-green fringing in areas of high contrast, predominantly in the extreme corners of the image. If you would seek to avoid any trace of CA, shoot at 100mm where it is lowest.
Shading (''Vignetting'')
The only point where there is any real shading of the corners is when the lens is being used at /2.8. In this case we see corners which are 2/3 of a stop darker than the center, when the lens is used at 150mm; at other focal lengths at /2.8, the corners are around a half-stop darker than the center. At other focal lengths and apertures, corner shading isn't really a problem.
Distortion
Distortion is kept remarkably low for a zoom lens: there is some light barrel distortion when the lens is used between 50-70mm (+0.4%), and very light pincushion distortion when the lens is used between 100-150mm (-0.2%). There is a nice sweet spot of parity at the 80mm mark where distortion is negligible.
Autofocus Operation
Built with Sigma's HSM specification, focus is conducted hypersonically, meaning it is very fast and virtually silent: the lens took less than a second to go from close-focus to infinity. If you're using a compatible body, that is: if your SLR body doesn't support HSM, it won't autofocus at all. Autofocus results can be adjusted at any time by just turning the focus ring, and attached 77mm filters will not rotate.
Macro
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS HSM isn't a great macro lens: its close-focusing distance is 80cm (31 1/2 in.) and its magnification ratio is 0.16x.
Build Quality and Handling
The Sigma 50-150mm /2.8 OS HSM is a solid lens, well-built with a metal lens mount. The lens finish is Sigma's standard matte black with a slightly rubberized texture. The filter ring is a hard plastic, and accepts 77mm filters that won't rotate during focusing or zooming.
The lens sports a few higher-quality features, such as a recessed distance scale covered by a glass plate, internal focusing and a nine-bladed diaphragm. Sigma has done some impressive work under the hood, with 21 lens elements in 15 groups, including 6 SLD lens elements. There are two switches of note: one to enable or disable autofocus, and one to enable or disable optical image stabilization. There are two optical stabilization modes available to be enabled.
The design of the lens might take some getting used to for some: the focus ring comes first, and then the zoom ring closer to the filter end of the lens. The focus ring is quite small, just 7/8'' wide with raised rubber ribs. The ring has about 120 degrees of turning action and ends in soft stops (the focus ring will keep turning, but an increase in resistance lets you know that you have reached the end).
The zoom ring is the larger of the two, quite wide at 1 3/4'' and composed with larger raised rubber ribs. The zoom ring has a throw of around 90 degrees: zoom creep is not a factor with this lens, as it uses internal focusing and thus, the length of the lens does not change with zooming or focusing. The zoom ring is nicely finished, and offers a good level of resistance when turning: it takes around two fingers to turn the ring.
The lens ships with a petal-shaped lens hood with the designation of LH850-02 589. This hood is quite large, adding 4 inches to the overall length of the lens when mounted. The hood does reverse and connect to the bayonet mount of the lens, for easy storage. The interior is ribbed to help cut down on flare. Also shipping with the lens is a removable tripod mount which turns very nicely: however, it doesn't have 90-degree click stops as other manufacturers provide.
Aug 24, 2015 11:31:11 #
Aug 25, 2015 19:08:49 #
1903Mark1 wrote:
Priced to sell $690.00 br Sigma 50-150mm F/2.8 &q... (show quote)
How old is lens? Did you find it soft at 150mm like some of the literature says? It will work with crop?
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