New Canon Lenses.

[Boddie]

Yes mate. I had it 8 months or so now. I rate it highly

[Badllarma]

Originally Posted by glsammy

Good luck with it. I always fancied this lens and tried one once. Unfortunately the one I got was a dud and put me right off it. It was a shame as if you get a good one it's just about the perfect lens so far as I can see. Not over large, fast glass, and you retain the F2.8 throughout the entire zoom range. Should work well with a 1.4X TC as well, something my copy certainly didn't!

Cheers for that Graham so far I've used it with a 2x converter and at short range seems really good at long seems a little fuzzy. Or the Heron did i shot it with in bright sun light?

I've just Micro adjusted it with my 7D today so hopefully should now be fine. I'm not expecting miracles with the 2x converter on it but much better than what i got
I've a rugby match to shoot tomorrow with it anyway (without any TC's) so we shall see. I must admit when I read about the weight of it I though yeh yeh photographers never happy but bloody hell would do not fancy hand holding for any length of time

I did contact Sigma to get a new tripod mount for it mine has the short stubby one on but at £160.00 a pop i think I'll pass!

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by Badllarma

Cheers for that Graham so far I've used it with a 2x converter and at short range seems really good at long seems a little fuzzy. Or the Heron did i shot it with in bright sun light?

I've just Micro adjusted it with my 7D today so hopefully should now be fine. I'm not expecting miracles with the 2x converter on it but much better than what i got
I've a rugby match to shoot tomorrow with it anyway (without any TC's) so we shall see. I must admit when I read about the weight of it I though yeh yeh photographers never happy but bloody hell would do not fancy hand holding for any length of time

I did contact Sigma to get a new tripod mount for it mine has the short stubby one on but at £160.00 a pop i think I'll pass!

Was yours second hand? The only reason I'm asking is I thought Sigma only sold them with the longer mount these days. I could be wrong of course.

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by glsammy

Have you seen the new L series Canon Lenses? Very nice, but what about the prices?? I was considering getting a 300mm F2.8, but baulked at the £3,800 or so price. So what do I think about the latest version, with the same glass but a better IS system, which costs only £7,500.
I was half expecting a replacement for the 400mm F5.6 L, one with IS. Relieved to see there isn't one.

Just found my Dad's box brownie (true). he was so pleased with that. That probably cost a fair wedge when he bought it, expensive is quite cheap, comparatively speaking.

[Badllarma]

Originally Posted by glsammy

Was yours second hand? The only reason I'm asking is I thought Sigma only sold them with the longer mount these days. I could be wrong of course.

Yes the only way I could have afford it In the last two years I've been sort of trading up kit.
So the long lenses went Canon 75-300, Sigma 120-400(my gf now owns this) , Canon 100-400 L Series I was so chuffed to have my first grey lens lol then sold it after a month for the Sigma 120-300 f2.8 (it just appeared on Ebay and thought I might get a bargin) which I did

To be fair as I do video with the 7D as well and the pump method of zoom on the Canon 100-400 is about as useful as a bucket full of holes when trying to use a zoom lens with a Follow Focus video setup I should of thought about that first I suppose

I manily got the Sigma 120-300 though because it gives me a 600 mm F5.6 with the x2 TC for wildlife and a good 300mm 2.8 sports lens for my events work in the one package.