Yes, in some situations better equipment can affect the quality, but only in some moments it's true, but what is the difference between a good lens and an even better one and that's it or that's all, but everything else depends on who uses that equipment and how creative he is. Some geniuses in the past did not mind creating masterpieces when this equipment was not available. So what? Thank you very much for your honesty.
@@princip6656 Well I always told to my students in late 90s, when pro equipment was very expensive and not available for all, that the Equipment doesn´t made the photographer. Today, when social media made a terrible pressure to show the best of the best, it can be a little frustrating, so maybe a good lens can help. but always you have to think, how would be my Photographs if no one would see them? Vivian Maier, an awesome Photographer from the 50, 60s, she never showed his photos to anyone and once her Photos was published the photos were incredible. Have a nice week and keep safe.
Ooh amazing I found u! Finally someone who doesn't use gear that costs a "million" but still takes amazing photos! In the end it is about skills...if you know your camera and also what you are doing....it is enough to take professional photos🔥🔥 Or lets say with cheaper gear you will finally see who is a real pro😏
Hi Alha, Im I completely agree with you, but I would write it this way; There are times that a good gear will allows you to better capture in a photo what you have in your mind, but will never help you to improove your creativity. A big hugh alha , and have a nice Weekend.
I bought an older version of this lens before they split it into contemporary and sports. The auto focus is a bit slow but otherwise it's a great lens for the price. I was able to pick it up for about 200 USD, about half the price from other shops! I consider myself very lucky to have got it.
Very nice video! I really like the fact that you used the lens in so many different situations - bird photography, skateboards, an air show, street, macro, street, and the moon! The lens is as versatile as you are. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much Randall for your kind comment 🤗. Indeed, this lens makes me happy, I can use it for multiple tasks without it failing, and the results are quite good. Currently I no longer have this lens, since I changed to the Sport 60-600 version, the big difference is that the Sport version is waterproof, so I can take photographs regardless of the weather conditions. Big hug !!!
Hi Kim !! Nice to read you !! I´m happy you liked the videos, I´m living in Germany since a few years, not so far from Denmark considering I came from South America. You have a lot of cameras !! the D500 is a AF monster for Wildlife.
Mario, I love your videos. They are so true to life and told in your calm manner that every visitor to your RU-vid page will be impressed. I watch your videos again and again. Please keep it up. Kind regards and have a nice time. Stefan
Wow Stefan, your words really touched me, you don't know how much I appreciate something like that. Of course I will continue, and now with even more encouragement. A big hug and take care of you. 🤗
Thank you for making this video. I have this lens for over 6 months now and I love it. Mostly I use it for taking pictures of birds and surfing. The details this lens can capture is really amazing. I definitely will try taking macro photos like what you showed in this video❤
You're welcome , I´m happy you liked the video. The Sigma is a great "multitask" lens, I love it. I´m sure you will get amazing macro Photos. thank you for commenting, and and take care of yourself.
Im looking for a lens for surfing.. So glad to heard that.. Does it get really sharp imagen of surfing? Do you have a place where to check them, thanks a lor! 🙌
@gregorydamian4802 Gregory, you don't know how happy I am that you liked the video, whether to buy or discard the lens, that is precisely my goal, that decisions are made informed. Personally, I really liked the lens, starting with the price and the results. Obviously it has its limitations, but when the budget is tight, it is a good choice. A hug and have a beautiful week.
Dzięki Mario za film. Jak zwykle czekam do piątku na Twój film aby czerpać niesamowitą wiedzę jaką przekazujesz. Czy dobrze zrozumiałem że ptaki w locie robisz z wyłączoną stabilizacją? Przez Twoje filmy jestem posiadaczem Sigmy 60-600mm i uczę się obsługi tego obiektywu. Twoje filmy inspirują mnie do wyjścia w teren i ćwiczenia się w fotografi przyrody. Jeszcze raz dziękuję i Pozdrawiam Adam Romek. Thanks Mario for the video. As usual, I'm waiting until Friday for your video to gain the amazing knowledge you pass on. Did I understand correctly that you do birds in flight with stabilization turned off? Thanks to your videos, I am the owner of the Sigma 60-600mm and I am learning how to use this lens. Your videos inspire me to go out into the field and practice nature photography. Thanks again and best regards, Adam Romek.
Hi Adam !! like always it is nice to read you. Adam, yes, I turn the OS off when I follow the bird, it has happens that the image gets motion blur, and the image freezes in the lens and stops to follow during the pan of the camera. Also because i use a high shutter speed the os dont plays a mayor role. The 60-600 is an better lens of course. Adam have a nice weekend !!
@@MarioKilianPhotography I"ll tell you: In return for my giving my wife a new bathroom for Christmas, she was going to get me the Canon 70-200 f/4. But since that would be kind of redundant with my 55-250 and the 100-400 I just picked up, I believe I'll be changing my order to the Sigma Contemporary after all. From what I've read, and answers I've gotten on the Canon forums, this will be a really nice lens to go with my 1DX3. Thanks again!
Hi Adude, sorry for late repply. Adude, I guess that the sigma works as well with Canon than Nikon, so it is a good choice. Now in comparision to the 70-200 F4 im sure, but if you meant the 70 200 f2.8 i would rethink it. By the way, is there a chance you wife meets my wife so mine learns those good habits.? 😄😄😄
Hola Darwin, muchas gracias por tu comentario, yo vivi muchos anos en Chile, siempre quise viajar al Peru, pero nunca tuve la oportunidad, algun dia se hará. un abrazo y carinos.
Found his video while researching this lense for airshows and nature photography, and you covered everything and more! This will be my fifth lense and my first super telephoto lense, so i look forward to getting to know it! Loved your video and your formatting. Consider me subscribed 😊
Thank you very much for your kind words, I am very happy to be able to help and that this video helps you make a good decision. Have a nice weekend and a big hug.
Wow, for the R5? That is undoubtedly a camera much superior to the quality of the lens. I would perhaps look at the option of the sport model, or the 60-600 model, in any case you will have to use the adapter.
Eu tenho uma faz um ano, uso principalmente para foto de pássaros, achei fantástica, não sabia que a opção de limitar a distancia do foco melhorava sua velocidade, sempre usei no infinito, agora com sua dica vou fazer o teste. já me inscrevi no seu canal. muito obrigado pelas dicas. Luiz Henrique Cesar Miné - Boa Vista/Roraima/Brasil
Muito obrigado Luiz, tenho ótimas lembranças do Brasil, lindo país e povo. Luiz, na verdade você pode limitar a distância de foco de duas maneiras: 1-com o botão na lateral e seus dois modos predefinidos, 2-com o acessório sigma para programar a lente. Com o acessório Sigma é mais preciso, pois você pode escolher a faixa em que deseja que o foco funcione. No meu caso, em 90% dos casos tenho uma faixa de foco de 10 metros a 50 metros, sei que qualquer pássaro a mais de 50 metros de distância ficará muito pequeno no enquadramento. Um abraço e uma ótima semana.🤗
Thank you very much Nancy. I am the grateful one, because you have taken the time to watch my video and make me a nice comment. A big hug and have a nice weekend.🥰
Thank you for this great review. I've just ordered this lens, and can't wait to see how it behaves when paired with my BMPCC 6K G1. It'll be my first long lens, so I'm a bit nervous, esp. when used for videography.
Hi Farid !! nice to hear that, I dont have much experience with Blackmagic Gear, but when I do videos with this lens I use most the NIkon Z7, because the IBIS helps a lot to stabilize the image. At 600mm any minimal movement is a shake in the video. Let me know how the G1 works with this lens !! Big hug.
Bardzo serdecznie dziękuję za tę video recenzję. W 100% wyczerpuje kwestie, które interesują mnie, gdy chcę poznać mocne i słabe strony obiektywu. Ta wnikliwa recenzja pomogła mi podjąć ostateczną decyzję. Bardzo serdecznie dziękuję za Twoją bezcenną pomoc. Serdecznie Cię pozdrawiam, Magdalena
Excellent video with very good information and your photos are very good ,this subject is ideal for me as I recently purchased a Sigma 150-600c for wildlife photography , I have subbed to your channel ,well done !
Thank Mario for this video . Considering your experience with this lens, what is the best distance from a bird to be to have a clear photo at 550mm and aperture of f8 ? I bought this lens only one mounth ago.
Hi nice to read you !! The sharpnes is most driven by the crop you have to do, if you shot a little bird like a Wren or Blue Tit and it is for example at 50 mts, you have to crop to much to have a nice size in the frame, and that kills sharpnes. The lens has a good sharpnes no matter the distance, the landscape image are a good example. So you should consider for Birds their size, i use to take the picture so that I dont need to crop more than a 50%. For little birds in my experience i preffer not to shot if it is more than 15 mts away, and in big birds 70 mts is my limit. That of course in a full frame camera, in croped sensor 24 and 110 meters respectively. I hope it helps you, have a nice Weekend.
When you take video do you use 1000 ahutter or you default to 180 degree shutter example 30 fps I would use 60 shutter. When filming birds is this proper? I just bought this lens and will pair it with canon c100 mkii to do nature videos.
Hi Gereral. Gereral, I have recorded with my old Nikon D5600 and a Nikon Z7, with both cameras I use always a shutter speed that doubles the FPS. For example, for not fast moving birds y film in 30FPS with Shutter 60, if birds are mooving an I want a more fluid video I use 60FPS with a shutter of 100 to 120. in both cases the aperture I use is 6.3, the widest the lens can at 600mm, and always with auto ISO and the OS of the lens in off. I hope this helps you. Greetings from Germany.
@@MarioKilianPhotography Thanks for the reply. I use this rule for normal video. Glad to know wildlife capture follows the same rules. Im going to shoot in 60 and slow it down in a 30 p timeline to get that slow motion. Cant wait to try my new lens.
Hello Mario. Excellente explanation ! Do you use any polarizers or other screwed glass with this lens?. I just got mine this week and I'm wondering if a polarizer is needed and if it's going to slow down some stops. Hugs from Brazil !!!
Olá RM, fico feliz em receber outro comentário seu. RM, na verdade não uso nenhum tipo de filtro na lente, principalmente por questão de nitidez. A lente foi projetada para obter a melhor imagem em sua forma original. Incluir uma lente de 40 ou 50 dólares significa que a qualidade da foto será como a do último vidro da lente. Principalmente ao fotografar pássaros ou animais. Agora, se por algum motivo eu tiver que tirar uma foto de paisagem, onde a luz do sol cria dificuldades, tenho usado um filtro CPL, mas em pouquíssimas ocasiões e apenas em fotos de paisagem. Você pode assistir a este outro vídeo onde detalho alguns outros pontos para conseguir imagens nítidas: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qylpoSZfbEk.html Um abraço e se tiver mais alguma dúvida estou à sua disposição.
Do you ever have auto focusing issues at 600mm? Usually it focuses fine for me around 500mm and less but when I zoom to 600mm it constantly searches and fails to focus on anything, not sure if it's because I need to change the settings on the lens when shooting something far away or if I need to try the dock to fix it
Hi Choppy, First, I don´t think you can solve the problem with the dock, the dock is to programm the two custom modes, and to calibrate the focus point of the dslr. If you Sigma pumps it can be for many reasons; weak contrast of the subject, to wide focus area, any eye detection activated, animal detection, to fast auto focus speed, pin AF mode for objecs to far away, 0 to infinite AF for objects to far away, you shooting with to close aperture, etc. You need to made a check list and go out and photograph with all this settings changed. In my Sigma I dont have AF searching issues, except for the normal on the lens, but at 600mm I have a lack of sharpness, so I shoot at 600 minus just a bit, 580mm 550mm.
Hello Tibru, thank you for your comment. Tibru, the 25 or more photos (sometimes 10 is enough) do not necessarily have to be aligned, the important thing is that the 25 photos are as sharp as possible, it does not matter if they are in the same area of the image. The photos are taken automatically by the camera itself, or otherwise, you press the shutter 25 times in a row, or you use the burst mode. Then, those photos are processed by Registax, which recognizes the moon and automatically aligns each photo, it's wonderful. A hug.
Hi Mario, love your vids. I have the canon r7, and pair it with the sigma 150-600mm lens. What are your thought on integrating a 1.4x converter with this?
Hi James !! At first thanks you for you comment !! James, the answer to you question will not be short, but i´ll try. The r7 (camera that i love, but dont own) is a croped sensor, so when you use the sigma at 600mm it is like you are using almost 900mm versus using any full frame camera, so why would you need more focal lenght? astrophotography or some constellations? the environment in where you live forces you to take photos to far away from birds? well, that could be. The converter 1.4x will made you loose 1 stop of light, also double you iso, it make works slower the AF and you have to pay a price in sharpness. Of course, if you have a sharp master primer lens, like 400 or 600 f4, you can squeeze the perfect sharpnes of this lens and use a converter, but the sigma is not a sharpnes monster, so you will notice the loos of sharpness, if you like photos of birds in flight you will also notice that the AF will be slower. Of course, if you shooting mainly static birds, the moon, stars, landscape (I love to do this wit the sigma), you can use the TC and be happy. Now, if I would own the r7 and the sigma, i would not buy the TC, with more than 30 MP image i really preffer to crop slightly the final image. And to end, once you have the TC in sight, almost no one can convince you to not buying it, and maybe you always will be anxious to buy it 😁, so if budget is not a issue go for it and discover the pros and cons for you self, if budget is somewhat an issue buy a used one, otherway dont buy one. Maybe if you had a lower pixel camera, or if you had a fast 400mm lens I woul stronger recommend you to buy one. james I hope the answer will help you. Big hugh, Mario
wow, thank you so much for such a detailed response Mario. Unfortunately, budget is a problem, and after doing some of my own research as well, I have found out exactly what you had told me already! I may experiment with a converter in the future, but as you say the crop sensor is good enough as it is, and my bird photography seems to be going really well regardless. Many thanks, James@@MarioKilianPhotography
@@jameschivers6729 I´m happy to read that James, I wish you the best Photos !! and don´t hasitate to ask if you have any question, Big hug and keep safe.
Do I need some gear to hold this Sigma on tripod? I have a K&F tripod and also Manfrotto only. Is necessary something more between the tripod socket from the lens and the tripod that I use to hold my Nikon ?
Muito bom dia RM, na verdade cada tripé vem com uma placa de fixação, que provavelmente é uma "Arca-Swiss" no tripé KyF; você deve parafusá-la na base ou no cabo da Lente Sigma. Desta forma você pode montá-lo sem problemas. Essa placa “Arca-Swiss” vem com o Tripé, tanto no KyF quanto no Manfrotto. Um abraço.
Obrigado Mario! Hoje, pela manhã, usei a lente pela primeira vez. Gostei muito dos resultados, tirados da janela da minha casa por enquanto. Obrigado. Deu certo a fixação no tripé. Grande abraço!
Hi, YES and NO !! 😁 If you thinking to take a nice Photo of the Milky way rising over the horizon and with a nice foreground, than NO, for this photos you need a 20mm to 50mm fast lens (f1.4 to f2-0). but if you thinking to take a photo of the moon, saturn, jupiter, any nebula, or the Green Comet last February, than YES you can use the Sigma and it works good, just keep in mind for dark objects to not use a too long exposure time, and if you have to it is better that you use a Sky Guider. If you use an Crop sensor camera and any extender (1,4x or 2.0x) much better. Thank you for you comment.
Daniel, I would love to be able to answer your question, but I can't. I've never used a Tamron zoom, so I can't give you a serious answer on that. The best thing is to see if there is a comparison video on RU-vid of someone who has used both lenses. A hug and good weekend.
Hi Chungus, 500 usd is definitely a good deal. Here in Germany the used ones are from 650 to 800. Check very carefully that there is no dust inside, that there is no fungus on the optics and that of course there are no scratches on the optics, that the focus and zoom ring moves smoothly and that the contacts with the camera are in good condition. Make sure there is nothing loose inside and all the screws are in order. Good luck !!!
@@dr.chungusphd108 Hi Chungus, sorry for the delay in my response. To your question, I have never had a Tamron lens, therefore I could not give an objective opinion on the matter. I think the best thing is to search on RU-vid or Google for someone who has directly compared both lenses. What I can tell you is that the quality of Sigma is that I have used their lenses for more than 15 years as a secondary lens and I have never had any problems. On the other hand, when I have asked for a Firmware update, Sigma's response has been exceptional. . A hug.
Hi Jtr, I have never test the 1D with the Sigma, but but with the 250d and the 7d the images are perfect. With the 1dx the focal lenght will be effective 150 to 600mm, like with my Nikon z7, and all the bennefits of the full frame sensor.....but.... The only thing is that Canon´s R5 and R6 have an focus issue called Pulsing, and the 1dx if I´m not wrong has the same Focus, so it can be possible to have pulsing too. Duade Paton, a great Photographer, solved or at least reduced this problem a year ago changing some settings, this is the video, I hope it can helps you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l7TEu1Tgq5I.html Big hug, and nice Photos.
Olá Rui, ambas as câmeras possuem um sensor aps-c, o que significa que a lente de 600 mm tem, na verdade, aproximadamente 900 mm. O que você deve considerar é que o R7 é Mirrorless, portanto tem melhor foco automático do que o D90. Em geral, a R7 é uma câmera melhor que a D90, então você conseguirá fotos melhores com a R7 só porque é uma câmera melhor. Um abraço e saudações.
Hi Paul, I have never test the R6 Mark 2 with the Sigma. With the R6M2 the focal lenght will be effective 150 to 600mm, like with my Nikon z7, and all the bennefits of the full frame sensor.....but.... The only thing is that Canon´s R5 and R6 have an focus issue called Pulsing, and the R6M2 may have it to. Duade Paton, a great Photographer, solved or at least reduced this problem a year ago changing some settings. I would recommend Googling specifically for this camera with this lens on youtube, you will surely find an appropriate answer. Big Hug.
Hi Jedi, for video the Manfrotto MT055xPRO3 and for Photography the K&F X-Carbon X284C4+BH-36 , both of them are in the description of any video. Have a nice weekend.
Ja Cool ich in Frielingsdorf. Nachher wenn die kleinen im Kindergarten sind wollte ich da mal hin und mit dem Schönen Sigma ein Paar Bilder machen. Ich hab es Anfang der Woche Günstig kaufen können.
@@SHARPxOix69 ja so ungefähr, 9 jahre in Chile, 5 in Mexiko, 7 in die Staten, 3 in Japan, 4 in Panama, dann wieder fast 5 in Deutschland, 8 in Brazilien, 2 in Argentinien, 3 in Italien und wieder in Deutschland. Nichts um stolz zu sein, es wahr sehr schwer.
Hi Walter, Ich bin in Deutschland geboren, aber kurz danach, für 48 Jahre im Ausland gelebt. Im Jahre 2020 reiste ich wieder zurück nach Deutschland, und obwohl Deutsch meine Muttersprache ist spreche ich besser Spanisch, und da kahm die frage, auf Spanisch oder Englisch? und ich habe mich um Englisch entschieden um mehr Publikum zu erreichen. Vielen Dank für deine Frage und Schöönes Wochenende.
🙏Hallo Mario, ich verstehe und Danke für Deine schnelle Antwort. Ich dachte nur, dass deine sehr informativen Videos sicherlich auch viele, deren Muttersprache Deutsch ist, Fotografie RU-vidr Deinen Kanal abonnieren. Für mich persönlich ist Englisch absolut kein Problem. Wünsche Dir weiterhin viel Erfolg und mach weiter so. Freu mich schon auf Dein nächstes Video.
