Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities Overview

Introduction

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 large 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 could hand-hold for too lengthy, being rather more at dwelling 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 superb. The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities lens has a posh half magnesium, half carbon fiber strengthened plastic, half Thermally Secure Composite (TSC) building. It incorporates a brass bayonet mount that is claimed to be extra sturdy. The optical parts are manufactured from high-grade glass with two FLD glass parts (efficiency equal to fluorite) and three SLD glass parts, whereas the lens has a mud and splash-proof building.

When it comes to options, the Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities presents every little thing that you simply want from an expert telephoto zoom lens. This very usefully consists of built-in Vibration Discount, activated by the OS swap on the lens barrel, which presents 6-7 stops of compensation. The OS system has two modes – mode 1 is appropriate for common images, and mode 2 is greatest for panning pictures of transferring topics in a horizontal route (not vertical).

Focusing is inside and guide focusing is feasible when set through the Focus swap on the lens barrel. Full-time guide focus override can be obtainable through the use of the Direct Handbook Focus (DMF) perform on Sony cameras after which rotating the main target 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 aren’t any onerous stops at each ends of the vary, making it more durable to set focus at infinity. Polariser customers ought to be happy that the huge 105mm filter thread would not rotate on focus.

In relation to 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 unhealthy mild, with the lens precisely focusing virtually the entire time. It is also a really quiet performer, because of the newly developed built-in Excessive-response Linear Actuator motor.

The main focus limiter swap has three settings, Full, 6m-infinity and minimal focusing distance-6m, which helps velocity 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 presents a a zoom lock swap that may be locked at any of the marked focal lengths, which is helpful when storing the lens to stop 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 capabilities to the lens barrel and there may be additionally a Customized Mode swap with two obtainable modes.

The tripod collar has a locking knob that permits 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 appropriate.

The Sigma 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports activities ships with an excellent high quality smooth case, a shoulder strap, and a really giant round steel lens hood (LH1144-02). It accepts 105mm filters.

Word that this lens shouldn’t be appropriate 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 obtainable both for the Sony system, and this lens is not appropriate with the very quickest burst taking pictures charges that cameras just like the Alpha 1 supply.

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 probably the most half very effectively managed.

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Vignetting

With the lens set to its most aperture, there may be important mild 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, nevertheless it’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 may be a problem when taking pictures instantly into the solar, even with the provided 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 will 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 often described in qualitative phrases, equivalent to clean / creamy / harsh and so forth.

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 try 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 view to present you the way 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.