Sigma 745101 150-600mm f/5.0-6.3 for Canon EF Cameras 150-600mm Medium-Telephoto-Lens Fixed Zoom

Naturally this is a big and heavy lens, and with the tripod mount it works extremely well in all lighting conditions as you would expect. The image quality is excellent and I've attached a photo of a robin with some zoomed in insets to give you an idea. If you look carefully you can see the reflection of my house against the blue sky in the Robins Eye. It's that sharp. However, it doesn't stop there. That image was taken hand held at the full 600mm zoom. Yes, the light was good, and I'm using a Canon 6D at 1000 ISO, but to me at least that is pretty impressive. The autofocus was almost instant and spot on. Being a big telephoto, you are having to be at least 2-3 meters from the subject for focus! The other feature I like is the manual focus override. If you have the time, and birds are not very patient usually, you can fine tune the autofocus manually. The second sample was taken at night indoors and also handheld. This was at maximum ISO and the autofocus does hunt around a bit, but not bad for hand held indoors at 600mm. There is a feature to set the autofocus range to basically near or far and that reduces the hunt time in low light. You can see here that at max aperture the depth of field is insanely narrow, so when doing wild life stuff it's better to go up to F11 or so and have a higher ISO unless you have manged to squash your subject flat somehow. So the final picture was hand held at around 500mm with the lens resting on a railing to provide some extra stability. The bottom left inset shows the sharpness that can be delivered, the numbers on the blue container are perfectly readable. Again this was at 1000 ISO. I was a bit worried about getting this in my backpack, but the solid zoom cover is reversible and it all fits in very nicely after a bit of reorganisation. I've not bothered with the USB tuner. The results are amazing without it. But I can see how it might be useful. Finally, don't bother with a 1.4x converter. The images are better if you just crop! Sigma do seem to make very good lenses! My Sigma 12-24mm ultra-wide angle is also excellent!

Read the 5 star reviews. I can't add any more info to help you. It's heavy, it's quality and gives great close ups and vids. You can hand hold but I recommend a tri-pod.

This is a really great lens for a great price (at least it was going for a great price when I bought it!). I usually only buy Canon lenses, of which I have about six or so, but above 300 mm their lenses are just too expensive. This was my first foray into third party lenses, but it didn't disappoint. It is extremely sharp, and easily matches my Canon 75-300 mm for image quality (over the 150-300 mm range that these two lenses overlap). The lens itself comes with a padded bag (with shoulder strap), rubber ring, a separate strap for the lens itself and a lens hood. The bag seems robust and well made, with foam inserts at either end to ensure that the lens is seated centrally within the bag and can't move around. It's not the fastest lens when it comes to autofocus, and occasionally I find that it fails reach focus, but the manual focus ring is well positioned and can be used very easily. Image stabilisation works well, although at 600 mm it can't do miracles. Hand held it usually requires a couple of shots to make sure that at least one image will be completely motion-blur free (unless you are shooting in extremely bright sunshine of course). The manual states that the IS system should be turned off before the lens is detached. I guess this is to prevent you removing the lens when the IS system is engaged. I don't remember Canon IS systems having this requirement, although I could be wrong. The lens accepts 95 mm filters, which tend to be quite costly. I bought a CP filter along with the lens, but this turned out to be a mistake. At 600 mm there is already hardly any light reaching the sensor and a CP filter cuts out most of it.

Arrived yesterday so just initial thoughts. I pondered long and hard, read review upon review and professional field tests too before buying. It is my most expensive lens and my first none Canon purchase so I was concerned not to mess up Reveiws are like statistics in the sense you can read into them what you want. As you read you eliminate options looking for better and the purchase price soars. My choices were the Tamron 150-600, Canon 100-400 Mark 2 or Sigma 150-600 Contemparary. I was tempted by the Canon and the Sigma Sport but dismissed both on price, eventually choosing the Sigma Contemparary. I thought the extra focal length would require less cropping and therefore give better results than the 100-400 and the Canon/Sigma Sport are too pricey for me There are cheaper opions to buy a Sigma C From third parties on Amazon but Ive had problems before so bought supplied and fullfilled by Amazon (no grey imports and no arguements). Glad I did as registering it gives 3yrs warranty and you can claim £50 in their winter promotion*. It arrived 2 days early. The lens is everything I hoped. Its well made with a sturdy, quality feel and although its is heavier than any of my other lens (be surprised if it wasn't) is a usable weight. At least for short periods. I took a few hand held photos at low shutter speeds and the results are very acceptable, clean and crisp. Can't wait to try it propery. So far I am very pleased with my purchase. I could've bought cheaper online but I wanted piece of mind so I bought reputably and saved money anyway. Happy * I have registered for 3yr warranty and will claim the £50 redemption but Sigma haven't confirmed acceptance yet. Good news. As its supplied and fulfilled by Amazon and not bought through a third party seller I get both the 3 year warranty and cashback.

I'm pleased to say that this has turned out to be a fantastic buy after lots of agonising over the 'best' long telephoto to get. I'm a keen amateur and therefore photography is for fun and pleasure rather than earning a living; I was torn between saving for the 'real deal' to get a genuine Canon long lens or this Sigma or the Tamron equivalent! For the money, this is a fantastic buy - it sells for the same price as the Tamron, so I read as many reviews as I could both editorial and via purchasers and decided on the Sigma. For the few quick tests so far it has not disappointed - a big smile on my face every time I connect it to my 7d Mk II !! Image quality is great; it includes the lens hood, a great lens case and carry strap! Build quality is superb, the tripod collar and mount is substantial - a very firm and sturdy mount. Autofocus is quick and accurate - even with a (big 95mm!) protector filter screwed on the front. I plan on getting the USB dock - the ability to update the firmware and tweak parameters was a big plus for me; I've been caught out before with lenses needed to be sent for upgrade to work with a new body etc. Will probably try a teleconverter too as I've read that the 1.4 and 2.0 sigma and canon versions both work with the lens!

For the money, this is a pretty amazing lens. While heavy, compared to virtually anything else with 500 or 600 mm focal length it's pretty light and as a consequence, given the excellent image stabilisation, it's certainly possible to use hand-held in reasonably good light. But unless you've got quite strong arms - or something to lean on - I'd strongly recommend using a monopod. This will be a lot lighter to lug around than a tripod although obviously the latter will get you the best shots, and is especially recommended if you're staying in one place such as a hide. As many have pointed out, with its unspectacular maximum aperture the lens isn't great in low light (a wider maximum aperture would make it much heavier and much more expensive) and ideally it should be paired with a camera body that has really good low light autofocus ability and relatively low noise at high ISO values. If you're not used to using a supertelephoto lens - and it is quite a steep learning curve - you're going to find that smaller targets that are some distance away are hard to achieve good focus on using autofocus, especially if there is something else slightly further or nearer to potentially focus on such as water, branches etc. This isn't a shortcoming of the lens, more a question of technique and the quality of your camera's autofocus system. In particular, if you're photographing relatively distant birds on water that aren't moving around much, you'll get the best shots on a tripod using either manual focus or the manual override setting (where you can use autofocus and then fine-tune) using the camera's magnified on-screen view rather than the viewfinder where it can be difficult to see if you have optimum focus. While this isn't a criticism of the lens, it's worth knowing so that you don't think there's something wrong with it at longer distances when closer shots with autofocus are so sharp. And of course even with perfect focus, as your subject gets further away there is inevitably a law of diminishing returns with regard to detail and any subsequent cropping or sharpening will bring out any noise in the image. From an aesthetic point of view, the background blur (bokeh) of areas of the frame that are out of focus is not very attractive when the background is near to the subject - e.g. if you're shooting a duck floating on water, the duck may look fine but the water behind and in front of it less so. On the other hand, if the background is some metres behind the subject then the blur looks fine to me. The sharpness when you get a good focus on something is really spectacular - a small bird 5 or 10 metres away will show every filament of its feathers. The focus limiting switch, with three positions of full range, closest focus to 10 metres and 10 metres to infinity is really useful, - if you're trying to shoot a bird through gaps in branches or reeds or alternatively one perched on a branch quite nearby you can avoid the autofocus locking onto the foreground or background respectively and waste a lot less time hunting for focus. Obviously this lens is far from cheap in absolute terms, but compared to anything better it's a huge bargain and I would strongly recommend it for shooting birds in your garden or a park, at least as practice for using it in more challenging environments. As an example of what you can achieve when the subject is quite near, the shot of the robin is from about 6 or 7 metres away.

What a brilliant long reaching lens this is! It takes stunning sharp images and is ideal for nature and aviation photography. The attached images were taken using this Sigma lens. I would highly recommend this lens!

I was looking into purchasing the Canon EF USM lens and while chatting to a person that was taking shots of a peregrine falcon near to where I live, they mentioned the Sigma was a very good but much cheaper alternative. I have to say that I am impressed with the quality of the images that I have captured so far and the detail and colour is far better than I have achieved with other lenses so I am very happy with the purchase. At more than half the price of the Canon EF USM equivalent lens, this has to be a natural step to becoming an amateur enthusiast in wildlife photography. I have set the auto focus as 4 star since I found that it had trouble locking onto the correct object a few times and used manual focus instead for fixed objects which is extremely precise. The functions on the lens are very intuitive and it didn't take long to get up and running with the lens. I have the lens connected to my EOS M6 Mk2 which required a Canon EF - EOS M adaptor which works very well. I haven't tried the Sigma docking station yet but will review that separately when I have time. I have attached a low res image of a robin on our bird feeder to give an idea of the very basic level of image quality you can achieve with this lens.

Got this lens to get a lot closer than my 250mm mainly for photographing wild Koalas and seeing if they're showing signs of Chlamydia. Great lens and also much sharper and clearer than my old lens and obviously gets much nearer without disturbing them. Only problem is it weighs 5x more than my old lens but its worth it. Highly recommended.

The product did not match the advertisement specifications (the advertisement says sport lens, but in reality it is from the contemporary category)

I bought this lens after a lot of contemplating. Ever since I found a new interest in bird/animal photography, I started getting interested in buying a DSLR and I did get a Canon 200D II with both the kit lens. I was getting by with using the 55-250mm (400mm full frame equivalent at the max zoom range) but I had my eyes on this lens but was hesitant on spending so much. But compared to the Canon lenses, this was way affordable. Talking about the lens, it takes a bit of time getting used to. Build - Build quality is amazing and sturdy and it feels a like a well finished product. Usage & weight - The lens is quite heavy and your hands and shoulders will hurt for prolonged use. If you already have shaky hands, think twice about the weight. You should probably rent this first before buying, which I wanted to as well, but I got the best deal on Amazon and I did not want to miss that. It's also a bit hard to zoom in and out with just 1 hand, and I haven't yet gotten used to that. The minimum focusing distance is high (almost 10 ft) and the switch to limit in which distance you want the lens to look for is a very practical addition, but may lead to a bad situation if a bird flies towards you. Packaging - Comes with it's own bag along with a lens hood, tripod mount, extra ring (to fill the gap if you remove the mount) and a few manuals. Picture quality - The picture quality seems a bit on the softer side compared to my Canon 55-250mm lens, but not a huge difference. Or maybe it could be that I may have shot on a lower shutter at the max focal length. A little post processing and you can achieve great results. For still subjects I've been shooting at around 1/500 or 1/640th of a second. For moving birds, with good light, I can go 1/1600th or faster. This made a huge difference in my images to get sharper bird pictures Autofocus - Love the autofocus in this lens especially in high contrast situations. Works amazing with my camera. I've been mostly shooting at the max focal length (960mm full frame equivalent) Over all, this is a really good purchase. I've mostly bought this for wildlife. With amazing light, maybe you could get some amazing portraits with amazing background compression as well. This is probably not for everyone. If you want to avoid cropping in a lot, this really helps. I saw quite a few mixed reviews about this. but end of the day, it all comes down to the person using it. I've attached a few pictures for your reference. These pictures are cropped and post-processed. You can find some of my latest on Instagram @rahul.k.viswanath update (2/5/2025) - It is still an amazing lens and I use it with my Canon EOS R7 with the adaptor now

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想像の通り重たいです。一眼レフとの組み合わせですと手持ち撮影は難しいので一脚を使ています。 しかし写りは素晴らしい。カメラの性能や撮影条件の影響もあるでしょうがノイズは少ない。 ２０年前の400ｆ5.6より天と地の違い。手振れ補正の恩恵もあるでしょう。 今は廃番ですので中古品しかありません。