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Squirrel eating - testing video with 150 - 500mm sigma lens on pentax k-x

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Uploaded by on Jul 2, 2011

Using Pentax K-x on a monopole at the 500mm setting, but lots of sideway jitters, because it was heavy .. next time hope to do better.

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  • im thinking bout getting this lens. do you recommend it? hows the focus speed? and noise? what do you mainly use this lens for?

  • @PalmFace93 -- No, I would not recommend, if you are going to spend ~$1k or so... The video seem to be of nice quality, as you see, but for photos, it fails at the 500mm down to 400mm or more... depending on your object/distance... slow focus, very hard to catch moving ... it is a nice paper weight, that is used in rare situations...

  • @uoo22boo oh ok can you recommend a lens in the same price range? sorry to be a bother just finding it hard to find a lens

  • @PalmFace93 -- Hmm, I'm not a test lab w/multitude of lens, so difficult to answer a general/generic question. Your eqpt/situation/conditions you want to shoot would help to narrow things.. Selecting a lens may suit one person but not another.. I.E. -If you had the sigma 150-500, it may be perfect catching sports, but shooting birds, you may not like the details ( or lack of). I would recommend looking at F2.8 ... Ask a more specific q and would be happy to help in any way.Good luck.

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  • @PalmFace93 I have this lens since 2009 and I have been using it quite a lot for wild life photography. I DO recommend this lens - I used it on a Nikon D5000 and now on D7000. It is sharp, focus is fast enough and quiet and OS works very good. The Nikon 80-400mm VR is over 50% more expensive and offers only 400mm maximum focal length but at 400 it is faster. The 150-500 is the only non-Nikon lens I have - I'm not against Nikon at all but they don't offer anything competitive at this price.

  • @PalmFace93 nikon or canon or pentax etc. nikon id reccomend the nikon 80-400mm vr excellent lens and i think its about the same price

  • nice

    

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