You don't need a tripod unless you're using teleconverters. I easily hand-hold this beast with its excellent stabilizer at 600mm.

At 150mm, sharpness already approaches outstanding levels in the centre of the frame at maximum aperture and the clarity achieved towards the edges of the frame is excellent. There is no benefit to image quality with stopping down, unless it is a creative decision. I did a lot of testing, I even filmed in portrait mode and then I rode the image and verified that it was doing better than evidenced by the vertical OS DOESN´T WORK!One of my favorite subjects to photograph is wildlife, so when asked to review the Sigma 150-600mm lens, I was excited about the opportunity to see how its results compared to my Tamron 150-600mm. When carrying your camera with a large lens such as these 150-600mm lenses, it’s best to hold them by the lens rather than your camera. These lenses weigh much more than your camera and can put a lot of stress on the lens mount if carried by the camera. Likewise, when mounting on a tripod, always use the tripod collar to reduce stress on your camera’s lens mount (it is better balanced using the collar and won’t be front heavy). Conclusion As you pull focus, you’ll notice some focus breathing: the image becomes a little more magnified at closer focusing distances. When I adjusted the focus from infinity to 2.08m on the Sigma 150-600 DN at 200mm focal length, I measured a 3% increase in magnification. At 600mm the effect is a bit stronger but still pretty inconspicuous. If this crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 58×87" (4.8×7.2 feet or 1.5×2.2 meters).

I’ve leveraged both its manual and autofocus modes for optimal precision. The lens’s Optical Stabilization system, with its general and panning modes, has been invaluable. All lenses in this comparison cover full frame sensors or can equally be used on a cropped APS-C camera body. [+] C: Sigma’s “Contemporary” series. Basically, it distinguishes it from its “Art” and “Sports” ranges. Overall, the Contemporary series lenses are more designed for general everyday photography, with their own combination of price, optical performance, speed, portability, and versatility. The Art series leans more heavily on optical performance and is less worried about things like focusing speed. While the Sports series aims for, well, sports, but also nature and wildlife photography. The categories are more useful in marketing than in practice, but when there’s overlap in the focal lengths, the Art and Sports options tend to be more expensive, with the Contemporary series aiming more for the enthusiast end of the market.

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Focusing is usefully internal and manual focusing is possible when set via the Focus switch on the lens barrel. Full-time manual focus override is also available by setting the Focus switch to the new MO mode and then rotating the focus ring. The contemporary lens is certainly no lightweight but it’s reasonably manageable for handheld shooting, tipping the scales at 1,930g. Indeed, the tripod/monopod mounting ring is completely removable, and the lens comes complete with a rubber shroud that you can slip on in place of the ring. The Sports lens is nearly a whole kilogram heavier, at 2,860g. That’s an increase of nearly 50 per cent. You can soon start to feel the strain in prolonged periods of handheld shooting. No Sony E-mount version; use the Canon EF version with the Metabones adapter and hope for the best. You can search for 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Dg OS HSM Contemporary Nikon DSLR for its latest price. Is Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary Canon?

It has an aperture with a range of f/5-f/22. This includes one FLD element and 3 SLD elements. Along with that, it includes a multi-layer coating with a hypersonic motor AF system. Is Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary Weather Sealed?Amazingly, Canon cameras seem to recognize this lens and have correction data available. My Canon 5DS/R and EOSR with EF Adapter both do. Weighing in at a whopping 1,930g and measuring 26cm in length, the Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary is a pretty big and heavy lens, although it is almost 1kg lighter than the Sports version. As seen in the photos below, it dwarves even a full-frame camera like the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. This is not a lens that you can hand-hold for too long, being much more at home mounted on a sturdy tripod or monopod. The lens also extends by quite a long way when zoomed out from 150mm to 600mm. Does it mean that the lenses are identical mechanically, electronically and optically? Not really – there are certainly some differences as you will see further down in this review. Our particular lens samples behaved a bit differently at varying focal lengths and the two also varied in consistency and reliability of both operation and autofocus performance. Not surprising when we are dealing with a lens design with compromises – after-all, 150-600mm is a huge range to work with, so in a way, these are similar in variation to lenses of the “superzoom” kind some of us are madly in love with ( Ahem ahem Verm, the SuperZoom master!). So keep this in mind when shopping for such lenses – you might need to go through a few samples before you land with one that works really well at a particular focal length. NIKON D800E @ 400mm, ISO 1600, 1/250, f/8.0