Hey everyone, thank you for joining us. Today we're gonna take an exclusive look
at the new Sigma 60 to 600 millimeter sport lens, stay right here.
Right here is the world's first 10 times
optical super telephoto zoom lens that extends all the
way to 600 millimeters. Now this and four other lenses were just introduced by
Sigma at Photokina in Cologne Germany. This will be available in the Canon,
Nikon and Sigma mount. It's a DG lens, so it's full-frame, but it can also work on
your aps-c crop sensor camera as well with an equivalent field of view of 90
to 900 millimeters. Now I'd like to thank Sigma for sending us a copy really fast
to get to try out and take some photos and share them with you, so make sure to
stay to the end and so you can see some of the sample images and sample video
that I took with this lens. In this video we're going to take a first look at this
incredible lens. We're gonna go over its build quality, its optics, its features
and its performance. Let's start with its build quality. So this lens is part of
the sports series of lenses from Sigma, so you're gonna get that exceptional
build quality that Sigma gives, like you had in the 150 to 600 Sport as well as
the 500 millimeter f/4 Sport Series lens. Now this lens is big and it weighs about
5.95 pounds but Sigma has managed to keep the weight of it down by using what
they call multi-materials, now, there are three main materials. They use carbon
fiber reinforced plastic, they also use magnesium and they also use their
thermally stable composite material which can also be found in their art
series lenses. The build quality of this lens was designed specifically to handle
extreme temperature changes, this is going to be a great feature for wildlife
sports and nature photographers. The lens is fully dust and splash-proof, it has
special ceilings at the lens mount also at the zoom and focus ring, they've also
applied specialized coatings to the exposed elements, this is going to make
sure that it repels, dust, dirt and moisture.
It's also gonna make it easy to clean the lens. The lens comes with a slip-on
and reversible lens hood that you can simply tighten down with a locking knob.
The lens also features a rotating tripod collar, now what I really like about this
tripod collar is that there click stops so you know where the camera is
positioned. The tripod foot is removable the tripod collar isn't but the tripod
foot features the arca-swiss mount so you can attach it directly to your ball
header or any tripod attachment that has an ARCA Swiss tile clamp. Now on the
bottom of the foot you'll find a 3/8 and quarter twenty thread this allows dual
mounting points for an extra secure connection. As I mentioned, this lens does
weigh six pounds but to help you handhold this lens while shooting Sigma
provides you with intelligent optical stabilization, now there's two different
modes on it. Mode one would give you about four stops of stabilization for
standard shooting and mode two is going to give you stabilization if you're
gonna be panning and tracking your subject matter. Okay, so let's take a look
at its optical design. You have twenty-five elements in nineteen groups,
you have a nine-blade rounded diaphragm for a beautiful bokeh effect to separate
your subject matter from your background. The lens has specialized coatings and
its optical design gives you the highest performance. At 60 I noticed that it was
as sharp as it was at 600. It's also going to minimize chromatic aberration that's
typically found using hyper telephoto zoom lenses. The lens does give you some
telephoto macro capabilities with a maximum reproduction ratio of one to
three point three at its widest field of view at 60 millimetres, you can get as
close as two feet as you start zooming in to 600 millimeters your minimum
object distance becomes 8 feet, so this gives you the ability to record really
fine details of your subject matter. I really enjoyed the zoom range of this
lens, it really helped out when composing the shot, shooting stills
and video. The AF, the autofocus was extremely fast and quiet and very
precise and the zoom ring was really smooth, it was really easy to move the
lens from 60 to 600 mm.
I hope you enjoyed learning about the new 60 to 600 millimeter lens from
Sigma. I really enjoyed cheating with this lens
and if you're looking to get your hands on one please keep an eye out on our
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keep on shooting. I'll catch in the next video.