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Sigma 50-500mm vs Nikkor 80-400mm?
Hi, I wondered which of these two objectives is better? I'm trying to decide between the Nikkor 80-400mm Sigma lens or the 50-500mm lens. I need a lot of zoom so that it is the job for me. I'm trying to figure out if it is better in terms of image quality, handling, durability, etc? of their sport / wildlife photography. Thanks!
It's tempting to use these zooms wide range of "walking" lens, but all objectives have commitments in their design, these zooms wide range have most of the commitments of all objectives. The result is image quality suffers. Things you need a lens for high quality images such as high color and luminance (B & W) By contrast, without distortion, flat land (which all the image is in focus right in the picture), without bullets (where the image is darker towards the corners) is not present in these 8:01 and 10:1 zoom performance really disappointed in all these parameters. One of the commitments other is that to get something like a decent sacrifice image opening. This makes these lenses "day light" lenses, the camera only 'hunting' trying to focus in low light conditions making them virtually unusable under these conditions. For image quality of a 'first' lens (only a fixed focal length) is the best and usually have large opening which is ideal for Low-light shots, used wide open with a depth of field you need for 'selective attention' photographs (where the subject is sharp and blurred in the background). Few commitments to these goals, the picture quality is as good as it gets. short-range zoom (about 3:1) are somewhere between the two some compromises, but still very useful. The ideal lens for sports / wildlife are almost universally 70 – 200mm f2.8 (Sigma EX version is very good) and the longer end of 100 – 300 mm 300-500 f4 or f3.5, none of these goals will cost more than your camera, but they are definitely going to aspire to the line. Chris
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