Re: Subject: [Birding-Aus] For the Bird Photographer who has Everything and wants More

[Carl Clifford <>]

Belinda,

I've put my daughter up on Ebay, but as, despite being a Chef, 186 cm  
and a redhead, she is not at all house trained, so I have not had an  
offer. Guess I will just have to make do with my old Sigma 170 - 500,  
slow as it is. It does a pretty good job.
If you want to send Daddy a hint, here is the 
linkhttp://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3349&navigator=3

the Sigma 50 - 500 earned the nickname of "BigMa", I wonder what the  
200 -500 will be called? Godzilla perhaps?
Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 10/11/2008, at 12:34 PM, Belinda Cassidy wrote:

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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