Hi I'm looking into buying myself a new lens for my EOS 2000D as I would like a better zoom for birds/wildlife etc - I am looking at: Sigma 745101 150-600 mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary Canon Mount Lens, Black & 878101 USB Dock Mount for Canon Lens-Black Any advise, views on this lens? Many thanks in advance
We have come sigma zoom users here that can touch on the lens, from what i heard its a good performer but maybe a bit beefy lens to carry. Is that the only lens you have or are purchasing? I saw you mention 10 years of photography in your hello post. What gear have you used up to now? I also want to play devils advocate on the 2000d as your choice of camera, Its been around since 2018 so its had a long retail run already and sits at the very beginner end of the feature offerings. I would imagine you could easily level up to mid tier camera at this point which would give you more control. On the flip side of the argument I will always say spend the money on better glass over camera, I just feel simple rebels are a bit to much of a fancy point and shoot when it comes to taking control of the camera, and if you already had a dslr maybe its time to level up.
i have the sigma 150-600mm contemporary lens, i use it with the canon ef to efm adapter on my canon M50, it is indeed an excellent lens. as for weight and size its a tripod lens for me, for wild life i use it with the benro GH5C gimbal head, for planetary i use the benro 3way geared head for precise movement (its a manually operated head) the lens works well with the x2 and x1.5 canon mkIII extenders though you do have the usual light drop off and slowing of the autofocus for accuracy when extenders are used, though thats going to body related also. i bought the sigma 100-400mm c a year or two before buying the 150-600mm as i knew the 150-600mm was going to be a tripod lens for me , i'm 52 years old now and have lost some arm stregnth so if you strong fit and health its possible to hand hold the beast, also keeping something in frame when at 600mm when it fills the frame is also a need for strong arms too. the 100-400mm c is an easy walk about hand held wild life lens, both its weight and size fits in my regular ladies shoulder bag with the M50 and adapter set up ready to shoot. great lens the extra 200mm over the 100-400mm is defiantly worth it when i use it, but its way less than i use the 100-400mm due to weight size and the need to have a tripod too
I use mine all the time with EOS RP. I love it. Little bit heavy but I rarely use a tripod. The only issue I have is focusing on birds i trees with lots of branches. But I think that is an EOS RP problem not the lens.
more a situation issue, the af will grab what it can when there are alot of branches, i use single point AF 99% of the time, i can switch to the smaller single point af on the M50 which can help steer through alot of the branches, if thats a fail then i use the manual override to focus on the bird.
a focusing tip, if you find the focus a bit slow use the focus limiter, it makes quite a difference esp for birds in flight
I have had the Sigma 150-600mm contemporary lens, and even though it gave me good photos, it was a hefty chunk to lug around. I have since sold it, and picked up the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens coupled with the 1.4x TC II gives sharper images with my 7D Mark II.
