Introduction
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities is an extremely versatile 10x telephoto zoom lens for Sony Alpha full-frame mirrorless cameras.
It will also be used on APS-C sensor Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras, the place it gives a 90-900mm equal focal size.
Incorporating 27 components in 19 teams, the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities contains a rounded 9 blade diaphragm which creates a beautiful blur to out-of-focus areas of the picture, built-in optical picture stabilisation with an impact of of seven stops on the broad finish and 6 stops on the telephoto finish, and a model new Excessive-response Linear Actuator motor for quick and quiet autofocusing.
There’s additionally a zoom lock swap that may be locked at any focal size that is marked on the lens barrel, three customizable focus maintain buttons, a most magnification ratio of 1:2.4 (on the 200mm focal size), a water and oil-repellent coating on the entrance and rear lenses, and a mud and splash-proof development.
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens is offered priced at £1999.99 / $1999.99 within the UK and the US, respectively.
Ease of Use
Weighing in at a whopping 2485g / 87.7oz. and measuring 28.1cm / 11.1in. in size, the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities is a really massive and heavy lens certainly. As seen within the photographs beneath, it dwarves a full-frame digital camera just like the Sony A7R IV.
This isn’t a lens that you would be able to hand-hold for too lengthy, being far more at house mounted on a sturdy tripod or monopod, and we might advocate attaching a battery grip to the digital camera physique too for higher stability. The lens additionally extends by fairly a good distance when zoomed out from 60mm to 600mm.
Construct high quality is great. The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens has a fancy half magnesium, half carbon fiber bolstered plastic, half Thermally Secure Composite (TSC) development. It incorporates a brass bayonet mount that is claimed to be extra sturdy. The optical components are manufactured from high-grade glass with two FLD glass components (efficiency equal to fluorite) and three SLD glass components, whereas the lens has a mud and splash-proof development.
When it comes to options, the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities provides all the pieces that you simply want from an expert telephoto zoom lens. This very usefully contains built-in Vibration Discount, activated by the OS swap on the lens barrel, which provides 6-7 stops of compensation. The OS system has two modes – mode 1 is appropriate for normal images, and mode 2 is greatest for panning photographs of shifting topics in a horizontal route (not vertical).
Focusing is inner and guide focusing is feasible when set through the Focus swap on the lens barrel. Full-time guide focus override can also be accessible by utilizing the Direct Handbook Focus (DMF) perform on Sony cameras after which rotating the main focus ring.
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens has a big focus ring, and it’s ridged for simpler grip. There are not any exhausting stops at each ends of the vary, making it more durable to set focus at infinity. Polariser customers ought to be happy that the large 105mm filter thread would not rotate on focus.
In the case of auto-focusing, the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities zoom is a satisfyingly fast performer, taking about 0.10 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Sony A7R IV digital camera that we examined it with.
We did not expertise very a lot “looking”, both in good or dangerous gentle, with the lens precisely focusing virtually all the time. It is also a really quiet performer, because of the newly developed built-in Excessive-response Linear Actuator motor.
The main target limiter swap has three settings, Full, 6m-infinity and minimal focusing distance-6m, which helps pace up the auto-focusing if you understand how far your topic is from the lens.
This lens has a dual-action zoom design which permits each rotary zooming utilizing the zoom ring and straight zooming by holding the tip of the lens and pulling and pushing it.
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens additionally provides a a zoom lock swap that may be locked at any of the marked focal lengths, which is helpful when storing the lens to forestall zoom creep.
There are three devoted Auto Focus Lock (AFL) buttons situated between the zoom and focus rings that may be optionally re-configured to assign numerous features to the lens barrel and there’s additionally a Customized Mode swap with two accessible modes.
The tripod collar has a locking knob that enables the lens and digital camera to rotate freely to place them horizontally or vertically. The tripod socket has each a 1/4″ and three/8″ screw holes, and is Arca Swiss suitable.
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities ships with a great high quality comfortable case, a shoulder strap, and a really massive round steel lens hood (LH1144-02). It accepts 105mm filters.
Word that this lens shouldn’t be suitable with Sony’s 1.4x and 2x teleconverters and Sigma do not present their very own TCs for the E-mount system. Sigma’s very helpful USB dock is not accessible both for the Sony system, and this lens is not suitable with the very quickest burst capturing charges that cameras just like the Alpha 1 provide.
Focal Vary
On the 60mm focal size the angle of view is 39.6 levels.
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On the 600mm focal size the angle of view is 4.1 levels.
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Chromatic Aberrations
Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, are for essentially the most half very nicely managed.
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Vignetting
With the lens set to its most aperture, there’s vital gentle fall-off within the corners at each ends of the zoom vary. Stopping-down to f/11 just about eliminates this.
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Distortion
There’s some barrel and pincushion barrel distortion evident at both finish of the zoom vary, but it surely’s simple to take away in post-processing.
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Sunstars and Flare
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities is able to creating pretty good sunstars when stopped-down to its most apertures, as proven beneath,
Flare could be a difficulty when capturing instantly into the solar, even with the equipped lens hood fitted.
Macro
The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities is not claimed to be a macro lens. It has a minimal focusing distance of 45cm / 17.8in. at 60mm and 260cm / 102.4in at 600mm and a most magnification ratio of 1:2.4 (at 200mm). The next examples demonstrates how shut you may get to your topic.
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Bokeh
Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is normally described in qualitative phrases, comparable to clean / creamy / harsh and so on.
Within the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens, Sigma employed an iris diaphragm with 9 rounded blades, which has resulted in very good bokeh in our view.
Bokeh is nevertheless a reasonably subjective a part of a lens’ picture high quality, so take a look at these examples to see the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities’s bokeh high quality for your self.
With a purpose to present you ways sharp the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next pages.
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