Carl,
That `bazooka' 200-500mm f/2.8, it sounds awesome and I don't think I can
live without one. Dad, if you're reading this, that is what I'd like for
Christmas this year (pretty please)? :)
PS. Sigma also released two affordable zoom lenses this year: the 120-400mm
OS and the 150-500mm OS, both coming in under US $1000 (which I suppose was
only exciting when the Aussie dollar was worth 98 US cents)
But to be honest, I thought the 150-500mm OS made horrible bird photos. Some
of the members of the bird photography forums I visit went out and bought
them u[pon release, and they are good photographers- but the pictures
produced by those lenses were BAD. To my eye the quality looks more like a
consumer-quality zoom (like a Tamron 200-400mm or cheap Canon EF) with a
cheap extender, and quite bad chromatic abberation and quality. The
120-400mm OS seems to provide poorer quality performance than the older
version, the Sigma 80-400mm OS (which is a fine birding lens). I don't
understand why Sigma bothered with it, but anyway...
Cheers,
Belinda
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