Sigma 120-300mm 2.8 sport lens
Feb 20, 2017 15:25:35 #
Looking for some feedback on this lens. I will be using it for baseball and hockey. On s canon 5dmkiii or canon1dx. Please any feedback would be appreciated.
Feb 20, 2017 23:02:18 #
DonOles wrote:
Looking for some feedback on this lens. I will be using it for baseball and hockey. On s canon 5dmkiii or canon1dx. Please any feedback would be appreciated.
It's my absolute favorite indoor sports lens (basketball, volleyball, wrestling, etc.) When on my full frame bodies. It's a bit short for baseball, football, soccer, even on my crop sensor D500, but a 1.4X TC takes care of that problem quite well (168-420 F4). It's a great lens and no one else makes anything even close to it. I usually prefer it even over my 200-400mm F4.
Feb 21, 2017 00:32:12 #
MT Shooter wrote:
It's my absolute favorite indoor sports lens (basketball, volleyball, wrestling, etc.) When on my full frame bodies. It's a bit short for baseball, football, soccer, even on my crop sensor D500, but a 1.4X TC takes care of that problem quite well (168-420 F4). It's a great lens and no one else makes anything even close to it. I usually prefer it even over my 200-400mm F4.
At $3400 I would certainly hope it would be outstanding. How does it compare to the Nikon 80-400mm VR which is not quite as expensive?
Also, put the Sigma on a D500 and it becomes a 180-450mm.
Feb 21, 2017 07:33:02 #
SteveR wrote:
At $3400 I would certainly hope it would be outstanding. How does it compare to the Nikon 80-400mm VR which is not quite as expensive?
Also, put the Sigma on a D500 and it becomes a 180-450mm.
Also, put the Sigma on a D500 and it becomes a 180-450mm.
Being the world's ONLY 300mm F2.8 zoom, compare it's price to anybody else's 300mm prime!
For what it does its blows Nikon's 80-400 away, Canons 100-400 as well. Outdoors in good light they are all pretty equal.
Feb 21, 2017 07:36:11 #
SteveR wrote:
Also, put the Sigma on a D500 and it becomes a 180-450mm.
Also, put the Sigma on a D500 and it becomes a 180-450mm.
It "becomes" nothing, it's still a 120-300mm F2.8 no matter WHAT you put it on. Do not mislead readers as to what crop sensors actually do, nothing changes when used on a crop sensor body except the field of view being narrowed.
Feb 21, 2017 10:27:05 #
MT Shooter wrote:
It "becomes" nothing, it's still a 120-300mm F2.8 no matter WHAT you put it on. Do not mislead readers as to what crop sensors actually do, nothing changes when used on a crop sensor body except the field of view being narrowed.
I completely understand that, MT. Granted, the same image would be available for cropping from a full frame camera. However, the advantage of that "field of view" thing is that it brings it right up to you in the viewfinder at the equivalent of 450mm, pre-cropped right there in the camera, so to speak. It's one reason for using crop cameras for sporting events such as the D7200 or D500 over a full frame camera. No, you're correct, a focal length is always the same focal length. In all practicality though, the lens DOES become a 180-450mm on a crop camera. If you question that sentence, check out how bridge cameras advertise their zooms.
Thanks for your assessment of the Sigma 120-300 as basically being made for indoor sports photography, since outdoors the other lenses are equivalent. In other threads, though, I've seen how the D500 can handle the lighting problem with it's higher ISO capabilities. The question would then arise as to which would be the better way to go....the camera that would give you more flexibility aperture wise, or the Sigma sport?
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