Sigma 500mm f/5.6 DG DN OS Sports:
B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Lens Tips published its lengthy review of the S that you can read in full here. If you’re curious how they made such a high quality lens in such a compact package make sure to read the lengthy conclusion or you can just check out the excerpts below:
Sigma managed to offer a lens that is optically outstanding and small for its parameters at the same time. How did they manage it?
Pros:
- sensational image quality in the frame centre,
- excellent image quality on the edge of the APS-C sensor,
- very good image quality on the edge of full frame,
- negligible longitudinal chromatic aberration,
- imperceptible lateral chromatic aberration,
- lack of any noticeable problems with spherical aberration,
- very low distortion,
- moderate astigmatism,
- pleasing to the eye out of focus areas,
- excellent coma correction,
- silent, quick, and accurate autofocus,
- moderate vignetting,
- efficient image stabilization,
- very compact physical dimensions for offered parameters.
Cons:
- significant focus breathing,
- no teleconverter available for the Sony FE mount version.
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