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 | Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C Pros: Great range. Not to big/heavy considering range. Effective stabilization. Capable of very nice photographs. 600mm can be very sharp with care. Quick autofocus Cons: Tripod foot a bit to small. f6.3 (but this is why it is not 5 times the price). Not weather sealed Opinion: At this price you have a choice between the sigma 150-600mm C or the Tamron 150-600mm. I chose the sigma simply because the dock may give better chance of being compatable with newer camera bodies going fwd. Picture wise I have been able to get very nice photos. I don't think the lens has any real flaw inside it's parameters. Even 600mm shots can be very sharp with good contrast @ f7.1- f8. Of course we'd all like if it was f4 or f2.8, but as a realistic option for the price I think it ticks all the boxes one could reasonably expect. It is not an inexpensive lens, but considering it's range it is very good value for money, autofocus is swift, range is great and it feels well built. If you need weather sealing this is not the lens for you. At time of this review I have only used this lens with a crop sensor Nikon d7200 sent on July 22, 2016 |
 | Nikon AF-S DX 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED VR Pros: Light, Sharp, Fast (focus), inexpensive Cons: f5.6 at long end isn't ideal, could be built more solid Opinion: I bought a d7100 body only because I did not think this lens was worth buying. Locally a guy was selling cheaply and I bought as a stop gap until I could afford a better lens. I was surprised at how good it is as focussing and how well the colours and contrast and by how sharp it is. OK it is not a fixed or fast aperture lens (so its not fantastic in lower light, but f5.6 at anything over 80 is still good for portrait isolation), but I rate it about as good as my previously owned 24-105mm f4 L that i owned when I used canon. To me its that good and certainly a lens I will be keeping sent on February 21, 2015 |
 | Nikon D7100 Pros: Staggering low iso image quality, good high iso image quality, 24mp gives plenty of detail for cropping, reliable autofocus, twin cards with plenty options (backup, raw to one , jpeg to the other etc), weather resistant, fast, 6fps (but see cons-buffer), Auto iso in manual mode is excellent Cons: Metering irregular and errs to underexposure in dull conditions (+0.3 or 0.7 good for dull days), noise if not exposed correctly. Buffer, Buffer, Buffer Opinion: The d7100 is a very capable camera. I have shot some photos in a non studio enviroment at iso 100 with a good lens and the detail, colour and sharpness are superb. Noise does climb in faster than some other cameras I have used but the raw files are very good at taking processing so even with moderate noise reduction applied the detail is still very good. This may be due to AA filter gone (noise reduction to an extent may mimmick a filter up to a point), so gets noisier a little faster. Having said this I have portraits at iso 6400 which have pore detail still visible at large (12 x 8) print. the camera is generally responsive and the autofocus system has a variety of pro spec options (most of which I will not need more than occasionally). There are many great lenses for the nikon system but I was very surprised at how good the 18-105mm vr combines with this camera. I initially bought body only and dismissed this 18-105mm as mediocre, until I tried it. Sure its has a slowish aperture, but in ok to good light it is imo a very good purchase. Auto iso in manual works great, good if you want to select a lenses sweet spot but keep a certain shutter speed, auto iso takes care of this. You can even dial in exposure comp and the iso will take care of that also. It's not all good. The buffer when using raw is terrible. It can shoot 6fps, but if raw selected only for barely over a second. A sandisk 95mbs extreme pro is often recommended. This does improve things a little- it still slows after 6 or 7 shots but will continue shooting at 3 fps with this card, slower cards can slow all to 1 fps. On the up side if you are happy to shoot jpeg it will rattle 6fps for much longer periods. The metering on a normal day is fine, when it gets dull the camera seems to make the photos even duller unless I add +0.3 or +0.7 exposure comp. This is not a deal breaker but sometimes I forget to undial this and my next shots on a normal day can und up slightly overexposed sent on February 20, 2015 |
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