PP: Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary Review – A Solid Travel Lens
Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary:
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Petapixel published its review of the Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS | Contemporary, which you can watch in full above or check out the excerpts below:
- Super zooms are convenient, but we haven’t seen many for mirrorless
- A lens like this is aimed at torists
- They tested the lens on a full-frame camera that gives 26MP when cropped to APS-C, so it should be representative of performance on a high-end APS-C camera
- Compact and takes 67mm filters while weighing 615g
- Weather sealed
- It has a tight zoom with a locking switch, so creeping isn’t an issue
- The manual focus ring is ok
- 6-stop IBIS in lens
- Autofocus is quick and accurate with HLA motors
- Impressive 1:2 macro at 70mm
- You can work close, but there isn’t much working distance, so the shadow of the lens might get in the way
- Sharpness is fine at 70mm up close but not amazing
- Very good at preventing flare
- No ghosting
- Not great bokeh because it is busy with some onion rigs
- There is some digital correction of chromatic aberration and distortion with some vignetting
- Super zoom lenses are generally going to need some correction so that is fine
- The center is decently sharp at 16mm f/3.5, but the corners will need some stopping down, but are always a little blurry
- At 300mm, sharpness is excellent, and the corners are improved with only a bit of softness, but the corners won’t get super sharp, which is ok for most applications
- 16-300m is a huge range that is largely for travel photographers
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