UPDATE: BHphoto marked the 150-600mm Contemporary A-mount lens as discontinued (see schreenshot on top). But they just fixed that and it was just an error from their side. Good to hear we will get the lens! 🙂
UPDATE: BHphoto marked the 150-600mm Contemporary A-mount lens as discontinued (see schreenshot on top). But they just fixed that and it was just an error from their side. Good to hear we will get the lens! 🙂
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LOL
maybe they haven’t made actually more than 10pcs of it and decided to not releasing it because they also think A-Mount is not going to be there for long anymore. Wait … there’s more Sigma A-Mount lenses being on hold, that have already been released for EF and Nikon.
That’s an honorable decision.
Sigma has recently set very high standards for their new lenses.
It’s very hard to maintain the recent Sigma optical quality over a wide zoom range.
I totally respect their decision to produce high quality or not produce at all.
They make the lens, the question is regarding future availability for a mount.
Correction accepted.
I’ve found zooms to produce excellent images in the right hands (24-70 & 70-200 lenses most notably). I am with you on super zooms though such as this, too many compromises. I would go with a long prime or telephoto zoom with less of a wide end and use a 1.4 extender if you need to get to 500mm. Though some photographers probably will use this lens with an extender….
Agreed,
I don’t use zooms anymore.
A 36 MP camera, a stable of good primes and occasional cropping gives me better results.
If you click the B&H link, it nowsays “New item, not available yet”.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082156-REG/sigma_150_600mm_f_5_6_3_dg_os.html
That’s too funny to be true… anyway, the lens status at B&H was fixed to “New item, not available yet”
Not good to post stuff like this. An incorrect status in an online shop does not mean anything.
It’s been fixed, but if they dropped it I wouldn’t be suprised. Tamron’s model is selling well, and most A-Mount owners tend to buy the Sony’s 70-400 anyways.
Not much about the lens in IR interview but interesting anyway.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/11/26/sigma-qa-kazuto-yamaki-micro-four-thirds-lenses-full-frame-foveon-feasible/
Multiple websites are also reporting that the 24-105mm f/4’s production has been halted for all mounts. Strange…
Maybe a sigma factory exploded today?
The “news” obviously needs an update admin…
But hey, why not just release it in e-mount, Sigma? no need for adapters then 😉
Sigma’s website says its coming soon and A-mount is still one of the listed mounts. Me i am not a big fan of Sigma lenses in general as there are autofocus issues with the SLT range. Tamron works much better, and they are slowly bringing out some amazing glass. So i won’t be bummed for this
notice this is not the sport version. may be they realise, it’s not going to sell too well against their own sport version.
Another rumor website saying the same thing about the 24-105 production on hold for the sony. http://www.canonrumors.com/2014/11/sigma-24-105-f4-dg-os-art-production-on-hold/
NO WAY…. I’m so happy i sold my A7R +LA-EA4 and bought (again) Nikon FF…. After years there is no (serious) long lens for mirrorless. Why? Only option for Wildlife is C/N…
Maybe next year Olympus 300/4 +TC1,4 and 18Mpix Sensor. I must wait. I Hate weight of DSLR.
Unfortunately, weight and wildlife go hand in hand. No mirrorless tricks, unless your wildlife is dead 🙂
No
The unfortunate thing is that E mount has been stereotyped by many people like yourself as being only for compact cameras and lenses.
That empowers people like you to complain whenever anyone talks about the bigger lenses necessary to make E mount a real system.
Fortanitely the new cameras will change that stereotype..
And by the way this 150-600mm contemporary IS A COMPACT LENS.
It is specifically desighned to be smaller and lighter than any of the other lenses in its class.
When animalbybarry talks about big lenses, people listen.
Really? Do you think a 150-600 for mirrorless is smaller than a 150-600 for reflex? How much total weight are you going to save then with an E over an EOS? 10%? And how are you going to do the tracking?
What I said was the contemporary version of this lens is compact, much more so than any other lens in its class.
As for size differences in mirrorless lenses…current mirrorless lenses use stepper motors which are faster but less powerfull than the motors used in normal lenses.
Therefore the elements that move when focusing need to be very lightwieght to work with these motors.
For this reason current mirrorless lenses are desighned differently with very light moving elements, often resulting in quality compromises.
This is one of the reasons mirrorless lenses are often lighter than thier dslr counterparts and that bigger heavier mirrorlesd lenses are not currently made.
There are still compatability issues that need to be resolved and the lack of more powerfull stepper motors contributes to that issue.
I still see converting mirrorless to be more fully compatable with other lenses as a necessary step.
OK I appreciate that, but the hard fact holds true: there are no shortcuts for fast moving things, you need big and heavy gear, with or without slapping mirrors. PS I hate stepping motors.
I going for the Tamron. It’s cheaper lighter, and I doubt the Sigma is optically better, plus I’d like to keep the weight down as much as possible, because my Jobu Gimbal can only handle 12lbs.
Spft at 600mm and not usable with tc
Its my last choice of the three available choices.
I didn’t know B&H decides product cycles for sigma
sigma is at war with sony … it’s very visible… the sigma market is canon/nikon dslr’s …. sony is eating their market
I’m selling apples to Sam and John, and then Peter comes asking me for more apples. God, I hate that guy!
They just did that to get AnimalsBarry wound up. I’m surprised he hasn’t chimed in here yet on this. LoL
Sigma should release the MTF charts for this lens so we can compare the 3 150-600mm lenses.
The fact that many lenses such as the sport version of this lens are only available for Canikon is one more reason to make the new cameras fully compatable.
Check the recent imaging-resource interview with Sigma
Already did
He offers some hope that this might be a good lens but need to see charts.
Interesting comments on E mount and stepper motors too.
Nice