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| sent on 14 Ottobre 2025
Pros: Optics: Definition, micro-contrast, three-dimensionality, colours - On the pitch: lightness!
Cons: In the Sony version limit to 15 fps and no duplicator. Minimum distance of 3 meters, but accepts extension tubes, even in Sony version, maintaining autofocus
Opinion: Looking for a powerful but light tele, I trusted the review of D.Abbott (which has never disappointed me) and various others. The field test confirms all the good I had read about this lens. Light it is, it weighs like some 70-200, and you tend to forget that it is a 500, agile and well balanced. I have no experience of brighter and much more expensive super-canvases recently, I bought them in the past but now I am no longer in the mood to spend 7,000 or 10,000 euros and more. But I think this Sigma 500 is very close to the high-end performances, and certainly surpasses the "zoomons", including my Sony 200-600, which remains a very good lens, but here there is more: the constant and pleasant impression, from the definition to the colors to the detachment of the planes, of having shot and filmed (I mainly make videos) not with a 500 but with a valid 300 if not a 70-200. This is even more evident in the case of low and/or gray light, where it brings out colors and contrast, something that the Sony 200-600, as is known, struggles to do. I find both autofocus and stabilization more than good. The aperture ring, which is also manual and also declickable for video, is a plus. I reserve the right to try it well with extension tubes as well to see if at close range it maintains good quality. Speaking of tests and reviews, having said that Dustin Abbott and others highlight the high definition already from 5.6, the non-vignetting etc. etc., I wonder what tests they have done instead to "Chasseur d'images" (which now provides the tests to "Tuttifotografi"), which places it inferior to the Sony 200-600 and others: but it is not true, I have both and the comparison leaves no doubt. |
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