Sigma Telephoto Lens

[hammersley]

I have an image stabilized digita SLR camera, Minolta 5d, that I love. In fact I have over 110,000 images stored electronically. I have a great regular lens, a 2. 8 17-50, with the digital correction of 1. 5 = a convential 25-75mm. I need a quzity zoom telephoto lens and am looking at this Sigma:



This is a big lens - weighs over 4 lbs ans is an 86mm...



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[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Did you have a lot of your pictures scanned & put on CD or are you saying you took that many with a digital camera? I have thousands of slides and thousands of print photos I'd like to scan but that is an investment no matter which way you go. I still shoot film in my Nikon FA and haven't switched to digital yet other than to have my film scanned to CD whenever I develop it. I bought a 7mp point & shoot camera but the image quality is quite inferior to scanned 35mm film.

I used to know camera lenses well and read reviews on them regularly and one time when I bought a Tamron zoom that was supposed to be a quality lens it turned out to be a disappointment. The images were disappointingly soft at full zoom.

 

[hammersley]

Nope - these are all from this

digital camera... ... I too have thousands and thousands of slides... ... but they are a mess to deal with ... ...

 

[AMink]

Check ePinions. There are a few reviews for this lens, but not for Minoltas. Have you checked into Maxxum lenses on ebay? I recently purchased a Sony A100 because I had quite a few Maxxum lens and they are interchangeable. Maybe a 50-200mm range with a doubler? For $1000, I hope it's a good lens, but I'm sure the big brands are way more.

 

[KBalzuweit]

I am not a Minolta user myself (Canon 40D here), but I have tried a couple Sigma lenses. I ended up sending them back, just seemed to lack image quality. In a telephoto I tried there 70-200 which was about $800 from B&H. I ended up with a Canon 70-200 IS 2. 8 which I got a heck of a deal on (avg street is $1700 I found it in Orlando for just under $1400).

 

[SOLER]

Did you have a lot of your pictures scanned & put on CD or are you saying you took that many with a digital camera? I have thousands of slides and thousands of print photos I'd like to scan but that is an investment no matter which way you go. I still shoot film in my Nikon FA and haven't switched to digital yet other than to have my film scanned to CD whenever I develop it. I bought a 7mp point & shoot camera but the image quality is quite inferior to scanned 35mm film.



I used to know camera lenses well and read reviews on them regularly and one time when I bought a Tamron zoom that was supposed to be a quality lens it turned out to be a disappointment. The images were disappointingly soft at full zoom.

I have a 5MP camera with a pretty good lens. to save card space, I have it set to take pics at 1. 3 MP. Quality is pretty good. I have another camera, pretty small in size. I got it specifically to put in my pocket so I would be more likely to actually carry it around. Very handy. It is an 8 MP camera, but the lens is inferior to the other one. I can have it set to it's highest setting and it still won't take as good of pictures. I don't mind. It's not meant to take studio pics. It's just very handy. But the quality of photos is all in the lens. An inferior lens won't do any good for a camera that can take high res pics.