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Anyone have sigma 500mm f4.5?

  • 19-03-2007 3:07pm
    #1
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭


    Wouuldn't mind adding it to the arsenal, damn hard to find a 2nd hand one, are they worth the cash (have read lots of internet opinions, looking for first hand experience if possible)


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  • #2
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    thats alota zoom. really would need a good reason to pick one up other than 'perv on the spanish au pair across the estate'


  • #3
    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    I find you'd need a 300-800 to properly perv on au pairs... Anything else just doesnt cut the mustard.


  • #4
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    rymus wrote:
    I find you'd need a 300-800 to properly perv on au pairs... Anything else just doesnt cut the mustard.
    don't forget the Polariser, those dame window reflections can ruin things :D


  • #5
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    have a very good reason for it.... couldn't justify sharkin out 5k on a 400 2.8 :)

    and just to be pedantic.... it's not a lot of zoom, it's zero zoom, nil zoom, zoom no more, non-zoom :rolleyes:


  • #6
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    ok ok its alota MAGNIFICATION


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  • #7
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    :) focal length/glass/pulling power...


  • #8
    GristlyEnd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭GristlyEnd


    minikin wrote:
    have a very good reason for it.... couldn't justify sharkin out 5k on a 400 2.8 :)

    I'm guessing used, if so where from?


  • #9
    digitalage
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭digitalage


    The king off all zooms has to be this, the guy is selling it for 40K dollars on FM.


    http://hobday.net/fm/n1200-1700/sn200015/


  • #10
    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    now thats a lens to go au pairing with...


  • #11
    Borderfox
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    What about a 400 f5.6 they retail for about €1400?


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  • #12
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    Not enough of a focal length increase from 300 to 400 for 1400 blips... and losing 2 stops in the process would put me right off!


  • #13
    Borderfox
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    If you want the 500mm theres no easy way to get there bar paying for it, even in BH. Have you tried Ebay for a 2nd hand Sigma

    http://cgi.ebay.ie/Sigma-APO-500mm-500-f-4-5-F4-5-EX-DG-HSM-No-VAT-0117_W0QQitemZ7616743205QQcategoryZ30070QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem


  • #14
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    UPDATE (for anyone still waiting) Got one secondhand in mint condition a few years ago :)
    Amazing lens - Has been great for birds/cricket/gaa/more lucrative work!


  • #15
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The au pair must be in her 40's by now.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #16
    minikin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    Can I just address these au pair accusations:
    It’s very weird, because I um definitely didn’t and have no recollection of it if I did and anyway I couldn’t have even done it, when I think back now, because I had a temporary <gulp> medical condition due to getting a fright and so that proves that I definitely couldn’t have even not thought of having even certainly considered it... so I think that clarifies that and anyway I don’t even notice servile people like au pairs. <applies extra lynx africa>

    OfficialCleverAmazonparrot-small.gif


  • #17
    sheesh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    I have a tamron and it seems pretty good


  • #18
    Adrian.Sadlier
    Registered Users Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭Adrian.Sadlier


    I got a Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 a couple of weeks ago for a 5 day trip to South Africa. Well pleased with it. A bit big but great VR - at least 4 stops. I picked up a new one from Camuletphoto.de for €1,049 (delivered).

    I will post some photos taken with it later.


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