Birding in New Jersey: Catching Warblers with Sigma Supertelephoto Zoom Lenses

If you live in New Jersey, you’ve heard all the jokes, everything from “What Exit?” to all the Snooki wisecracks, but here’s the real ‘situation’: New Jersey is one of the best locations for bird watching in the United States,…

SIGMA 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports: First Look Image Samples

A hands-on review of the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports lens with image samples by Sigma’s lead blogger, Jack Howard.

The Call of the Birds

There’s an unshakeable feeling that rises at certain times—that it’s been just a little bit too long since your last photo outing.

SIGMA 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary Versus SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary

The Sigma 100-400mm C is the newest super telephoto zoom lens in the Sigma lineup. With a 4X zoom ratio, this lens is designed for full-frame cameras and offers a lot of reach in a very compact and lightweight package thanks to the variable aperture design. In total specs, features, build, and focal range, it is most closely related to the slightly larger 150-600mm Contemporary lens, and it ships at a slightly lower cost. We are going to do a run through of the shared features and points of differentiation between these two great supertelephoto zoom lenses.

SIGMA 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C: First Look | Sneak Peek | Quick Review

The Sigma 100-400mm Contemporary is a super-sharp 4X super telephoto zoom lens in a very compact package for it full-frame reach and range. And at $799 street, it is a whole lot of lens for the money.

The Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 | C lens is Always Ready For Anything!

The Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM Macro | Contemporary lens is best described as versatile . At just four inches long in the camera bag, and weighing just over a pound, this small lens covers wide angle to supertele, plus macro.

Getting the Shot with the “Sigmonster”

Guest post by Scott Bourne, founder of Photofocus.com Around 20 years ago, I saw an image by a friend that contained a lake full of cranes and geese, backlit by a blazing, golden sun. The image struck me to the…

Sports or Contemporary: Which SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 Zoom Lens is Right for You?

SIGMA once offered a pair of hyper-telephoto zoom lenses for full-frame cameras, the 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports and 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary. With identical focal length and apertures, and advanced feature sets including SIGMA’s exclusive lens customization, these two zoom lenses share champion DNA. What is the difference between the Sports and Contemporary version of the SIGMA 150-600mm zoom lenses?

Top 5 Posts of 2015!

It has been another banner year here at Sigma, between product announcements, awards, and events from coast to coast! Here are the most popular blog postings in 2015!

SIGMA 150-600mm DG OS HSM | Contemporary Pairs Performance with Portability

As you probably know by now, there are two 150-600mm F5-6.3 zoom lenses in the SIGMA lens lineup: the 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports, and 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary. However, at one point there also…