Specification
Product Details
- Brand: Sigma
- Model: B0009F3MQK
- Released on: 2005-06-10
- Dimensions: 4.06 pounds
Features
- Special Low Dispersion glass, plus a seven group zoom system and multi-coated optics, enable this wide-ranging zoom lens
- Zoom Lock mechanism helps eliminate zoom creep when the lens is tilted up or down
- Detachable lens hood is provided to protect the front of the lens from extraneous light
- Accepts 86mm size filters
Product Description
Features High Magnification Zoom Lens with a 10x zoom ratio. Optimized for digital SLR cameras. This high zoom ratio lens is optimized for digital SLR cameras and capable of covering a wide range of focal lengths from 50mm standard to 500mm ultra telephoto. Reduction of Flare and Ghosting The advanced optical design is optimized for digital SLR cameras. In addition, the new super coating on each glass surface produces superb color rendition, while reducing flare and ghosting.SLD glass for superior optical performanceThis lens uses four pieces of SLD (the special low dispersion) glass for excellent correction of color aberration throughout the entire zoom range.HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor). The HSM models (the HSM is only available for AF Canon, Nikon and Sigma Mounts) provide quiet high-speed AF function, as well as full time manual focus capability.APO Tele-Converter EX (optional)By adding an APO teleconverter (sold separately), you can use this lens as a 140-700 e7.3-8.8 MF ultra-telephoto zoom lens with a 1.4X EX teleconverter, or as a 200-1000mm F10.4-12.6 MF ultra-telephoto zoom lens with a 2X teleconverter.(Teleconverters can be used in 100mm - 500mm focal length range) Easy Operation and Handling This lens also features a Zoom Lock device to eliminate Zoom Creep when the lens is tilted down. When the lens is set to the 50mm focal length, it is remarkably compact and provides easy handling. The tripod mount is composed of magnesium, to minimize total weight and also it is easy to grip and carry the lens due to ergonomic design of the tripod mount.Non-rotating front lens elements, due to rear focus mechanism make possible the use of a custom bayonet Petal-type Hood, which prevents extraneous light from degrading the image quality. This mechanism also allows the use of circular polarizing filters, since the front barrel does not rotate during focusing or zooming.Specifications Lens Construction 20 Elements in 16 GroupsAngle of ...
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
67 of 73 people found the following review helpful.
Bigma: Not a lens, a window (.. yes .. it can be a pain)
By Bill
Other owners of this lens will walk up to you when you are shooting in public with this lens, and they will ask how you like "bigma." Bigma is the nickname of this lens.I've used this lens for 4 years, it has enabled me to discover much. For example, girls and women, can *feel* you looking at them. With this lens, you can get far enough away (30+ feet) that females can't feel you looking at them. And, then you get great head and shoulder candid shots. And then, their mothers call you up and say "I just love that picture because she didn't know you were there." Another constituency you will have improved access to, is small children. They also, like to have their pictures taken, and with all the digital cameras around today, they are masters of over posing. With bigma your church will ask you to become the unofficial photographer because you get "better" pictures of the kids (i.e., candids without posing) than anyone else.I've used the lens on a D70 taking kid-event pictures, high school soccer pictures, and high school marching band pictures. Yes, I had and hated the auto focus problems - particularly in sports. So, if you have a D70, be prepared to be patient until you get the hang of the lens. Bigma will force you to read your manual and to experiment with autofocus and to measure the % of out of focus pictures you get, and keep trying new things. But after the pain, this is a good thing. It is called learning.Now I'm using the 50-500 on my D300 there are smaller and less frequent autofocus problems. The sensors in the D70 were not quite good enough, I think. So, if you have a D70 and don't like this lens, you might want to trade the 50-500 for a D300. Or borrow a friend's D200 or D300 and see if the lens performs better. Root cause may be the camera, not the lens.Bigma Advice:- You will need a [monopod[ASIN:B0002YE6EU Canon Monopod 100 for SLR Cameras & Lenses]] to avoid killing your back. If you get the Canon like I have, the swivel top has loosened to the point where super glue reengineering is required.- You also need to know to turn the aperature all the way down when you put the lens on the camera, or Nikons won't shoot. You will know that this has happened by listening to your self say "What the __ll is wrong? Why won't it shoot?"- Get a [Nikon lens cleaning pen[ASIN:B00006JN3G Nikon Lens Pen Cleaning System]]. With all the glass in a bigma, there are spots, dots, and nits galore to police off the inner and outer lens surfaces. Keep the glass clean and the pictures are visibly sharper.- Don't ever use the tripod mount on the camera with bigma attached. I did this once by accident. Always, always, always use the tripod mount on the bigma handle. That's what I say to prevent a recurrence.I must agree with the encomium shared by other positive reviewers. I wouldn't be without bigma. It puts the camera into a world you won't see without it. You bought the Nikon because your eyes are bad, you love the egoboo of giving an undeserving parent a great picture of their kid, and your pocket is no longer so empty. Buy the bigma to get the most out of your Nikon. Bigma + Nikon = increased egoboo.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.Unique among its peers
By Larry Eiss
Last summer I borrowed the SIGMA 50-500 for a week while I was vacationing with the most wonderful woman in the world. We spent the week in a small rustic cabin on Seventh Lake in the central Adirondacks. I had a great time shooting with the lens, but frankly, I was not careful enough at that time to make the sort of outstanding images of which this lens is capable.I tried snapping things in a hurry and on dark rainy days. The SIGMA 50-500 isn't really designed for that sort of low light grab work. Since then I've learned a lot about light, shutter speed, the relative stability of tripods, and what one should expect from a 500mm telephoto lens. Now I am taking the sort of images this unique lens is meant for.The SIGMA 50-500 EX DG HSM APO is a very unique lens. Back in the day, the manufacturing process didn't allow vendors to make lenses like this with good optical properties. These days, they practically do miracles by the old standards. This lens isn't something you see around every day-yet at least-but it takes great pictures.At a little over four pounds, it's very light as 500mm lenses go. Vibration reduction (Image Stabilization for Canon fans) would be a great benefit, but for the price, you just can't come close to the performance of this lens anywhere else. It comes with a carrying and storage bag, but you can't have a body attached while it's in the bag. On the other hand, this lens can be carried with a body attached without too much effort. I wouldn't want to hike with it, but it's OK for half-day birding trips and things like that.For more information and some example shots, see my Blog at http://www.LarryEiss.com
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.BIG MA :-)
By Michael T. McCaffrey
I received "BIG MA" in excellent condition, and exactly on time, from Amazon. What's not to like? It worked seamlessly with my Nikon D-90 ("plug and play"). I know this has been stressed in prior reviews (which were VERY helpful to me in deciding on this lens): know what you're getting! The SIGMA 50-500mm f/4-6.3 EX DG APO HSM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon SLR Cameras is a "biggee." This is NOT a lightweight lens, folks. Weighing in at a fighting weight of 6 lbs, Big Ma is deserving of at least a MONOPOD, and ... if you like lugging the things: a TRIPOD. I still retained my Nikkor 70-300mm lens for trips, since it's lightweight, compared to Big Ma ... though I still might take "Ma" with me anyway, I like it so much :-) From my own experience, did it make that much of a difference from the 70-300 lens? Of course! I was attempting to take pics of a blue heron from a distance some weeks before I received Big Ma, and just couldn't bring Big Bird in like I wanted to, the 70-300 was just not powerful enough. Another photographer happened to be near me at this location and also had a Nikon. He said: "Here, try this lens." I switched to his Big Ma, and it was LOVE! I ordered it immediately upon coming home (I'd been thinking of this before trying his lens, and had already read all the reviews). Another thing, which I'm SURE none of our shutterbugs reading these reviews thinks of, since I'm sure you're all above such thoughts: but (since I obviously never moved up to more elevated thinking) I thought: "Man, that lens (Big Ma on that other guy's camera) sure does look MEAN!" In addition to it's "punch," Big Ma has the effect of making the owner LOOK like he/she knows what they're doing (whether they do or not). It's an investment, folks. But if you've already plunked down the funds for the camera, software, tripods, backpacks, ad infinitum, then this is one lens you might really want to consider if you want to move up to just plain increased capabilities. I would highly recommend you get a FILTER for it at the same time, you will want to protect this great lens (I bought the HOYA CIRCULAR POLARIZING FILTER, which I leave on all the time). I hope this was of some minor help to you. Happy shooting!
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