I Got A New Lens Sigma 50-200mm ***Bargain***

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Julie (wife) bought me a new lens, a Sigma 50-200mm f4-5.6 DC OS HSM, and it came today, had a quick play with it, looks and feels good, OS is great, fast AF, and its ultra silent , well happy, fab value for £100, should been £180,from Jacobs Clicky Linky Eosjohn has one and says its a great lens, I did have a quick with his lens, but then we saw it at that price and went for it, I'll do some test shots and post them tomorrow.
 
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Thought a few people would have liked to know about this bargain :( and grabbed one their still £180 everywhere else
 
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Cheers for the bump. Never caught this yesterday. Hopefully the price is still the same around payday next week and I'll be getting myself this.

It's either a telephoto or a Samyang 8mm fisheye. Not sure which yet.

Thanks for the heads up
 
Nice lens and super cheap!!!

For the Dark side fans they also have a Nikon fit one too: Link

Let us know how it goes Dave.

I won't be buying anything for a while, cash flow is a bit tight and I only recently got my Tamron 90mm Macro lens... :D

P.S.
Dave "DC" in Sigma terms means for use on cropped sensors only.
 
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I am having to fight the urge to get that. Would be a prefect replacement for my Tamron 55-200 as it would AF on the other half's D40x and has OS but I don't have £100 (well ~£50 if I sell the Tamron) spare :(
 
Does anybody know how this will compare to the Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens?! At this price, I too am seriously tempted as a zoom lens for my second/take anywhere D3000! I've hear/read that the Sigma is better built (metal mounting) and feels more solid than the Nikon....? The Nikkor can be had for ~£142 delivered from Tesco Direct atm.

Edit; Just saw that Dave has a Canon body! But any valid input would be welcome :)
 
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Cheers Dave, I saw one in the flesh this morning on my way to work on a D3100 body. I just wanted peoples opinions on the IQ of this lens compared to say the Canon/Nikon equivalents....
 
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Does anybody know how this will compare to the Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens?! At this price, I too am seriously tempted as a zoom lens for my second/take anywhere D3000! I've hear/read that the Sigma is better built (metal mounting) and feels more solid than the Nikon....? The Nikkor can be had for ~£142 delivered from Tesco Direct atm.

Edit; Just saw that Dave has a Canon body! But any valid input would be welcome :)
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It's like my posts are in Japanese or something!

I put a link to the Nikon mount lens in my original post...
 
DeeJay said:
It's like my posts are in Japanese or something!

I put a link to the Nikon mount lens in my original post...
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Ditto.

If you read what I wrote earlier;

Nikon newbie said:
Cheers Dave, I saw one in the flesh this morning on my way to work on a D3100 body. I just wanted peoples opinions on the IQ of this lens compared to say the Canon/Nikon equivalents....
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I'm not after a link to the actual item, I wanted peoples opinions ;)
 
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Hiya Dave,

This sounds great .... I hope you get great use out of the lens and I look forward to seeing some of the shots soon.

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
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