sigma 150-500 or 50-500

[cherrywaff]

i have a new bigma for sale , but i dont know if i,m allowed to offer things for sale on this site..i bought it just after christmas but find it a bit too heavy for me. it would be fine for a man..

[kiff]

Well after reading the replies and seeing some of the images taken when members have been using the sigma 150-500, I decided to go for the 150-500 over the 50-500 as I do a lot of walking so having OS on the lens is very handy,
the lens arrived Friday which was great as this meant that I could take it on the Avalon 24 event over the weekend, I'm now kicking my self and wishing I had taken my cheap tamron 70-300 zoom as it takes a much better picture and I would of got some good photos that I fill would have been good enough to go in the Gallery,
But after doing 24 Hours of walks and carrying the 150-500 during most of the daylight walks, I did not get one good quality photo the OS seemed to work when hand-held but autofocus is way out even having the lens on a tripod and OS turned off , the lens could not get any photos in focus, but then even focusing manually I could not get one sharp photo there all way to soft and just not good quality even in very good light and fast shutter speeds this len just did not produce the quality if should of done I think I got one that should not of passed the QC so I'm going to send it back and get the 50-500

[kiff]

Originally Posted by kiff

the lens could not get any photos in focus, but then even focusing manually I could not get one sharp photo there all way to soft and just not good quality even in very good light and fast shutter speeds this len just did not produce the quality if should of done I think I got one that should not of passed the QC so I'm going to send it back and get the 50-500

well I took it back and after having a try with another 150-500mm they had in stock and the 50-500mm I came away with the 150-500mm, some thing they did say was they get about 10% of new Sigma lens back due to one fault or another, but if you get a good one you wont be disappointed well I think this time I got the good one here some Images I go on the way home from getting the lens replaced

[Geoff F]

I know that Sigma had some quality problems with some of the first lenses of this model but that would appear to be largely corrected now. But it could be that some of these lenses are still lurking on sales counters and will pop up from time to time.

For hand held work, especially, I think you will be pleased with this lens.