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Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO Macro Telephoto Zoom Lens for Minolta and Sony SLR Cameras | 
| Brand: Sigma
Category: Photography
Buy New: $209.00
as of 9/5/2010 07:52 PDT details
New (3) Used (1) from $180.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  160 reviews
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Optical Zoom: 4.3
Maximum Aperture: 4
Maximum Focal Length: 300
Minimum Focal Length: 70
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: B000B8GSJ8
Model: B000B8GSJ8
UPC: 085126508340
EAN: 0851265083402
ASIN: B000B8GSJ8
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Optimized for use with digital SLR cameras | | • | Multi-layer lens coating and lens design reduces flare and ghosting | | • | Minimum focusing distance is 37.4 inches at all zoom settings | | • | Features 14 lens elements in 10 Groups | | • | High-performance lens ideal for portraits, sports photography, nature photography |
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Product Description
CL) INT) 70-300MM F4-5.6 MIN APO SUP
Amazon.com Product Description
The Sigma APO 70-300mm f4-5.6 DG Macro Lens for Minolta Digital SLR Cameras is a telephoto zoom lens with tele-macro functionality. Optimized for digital cameras, this high-performance lens has two Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass elements in the front lens group and one in the rear lens group. It is able to shoot with maximum magnification 1:2 at the focal length of 300 millimeters. It's the ideal lens for portraits, sports photography, nature photography, and other types of photography that frequently use the telephoto range. The multi-layer lens coating and lens design reduce flare and ghosting, which is a common problem with digital cameras, and it also creates an optimum color balance through the entire zoom range. High optical performance is demonstrated throughout the entire zoom range. The lens features a switch that converts the lens to macro photography at focal lengths between 200 millimeters and 300 millimeters, with a minimum focusing distance of 37.4 inches. In normal mode the minimum focusing distance is 59.1 inches at all zoom settings.
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 Love this lens August 22, 2010
Ken Beerger (wyndmoor, pa United States)
Better than I could have hoped for. Shooting with a Pentax Kx. I'm getting outstanding shots right out of the box. Have only had for a few weeks, but for now all is good. Great buy.
Great quality for the price. August 21, 2010
Alberto
It has been a year since I've purchased this lens and it's still doing awesome. For the price you pay, you REALLY can't beat the quality of the pictures that you get. Recommend tripod for macro shots though. If you wish to see examples, go to the customer images and look at the dragon fly pictures from Alberto(that's me).
Good value, Blurry at distance August 19, 2010
Jonny (DC)
As an amateur photographer, I do not demand a lot from my lenses. This lens was hundreds of dollars less than its closest competitor, and for that I give Sigma full marks.
The lens functions well at 70-200mm, with good clarity and decent focus. It is a good low-range zoom lens, and well-worth the price for a first foray into the long-distance zoom lens arena.
The lens obviously has its drawbacks. When I take pictures at 300mm, the lens's autofocus has problems with clarity even in full sunlight. Faces are grainy when viewed at 100%.
The autofocus feature is also quite slow and noisy. Don't expect to be able to take clear pictures of anything in motion except for turtles.
I have also found the macro setting to be quite useless for me. Without use of a tripod, pictures turn out quite blurry. After using the macro setting, I was unable to switch back to normal until I turned off autofocus. The switch simply refused to move.
I like the lens, and will continue to use it. But I will keep saving up.
Good value telephoto lens August 9, 2010
Tom
I've had the lens for about a month now. We bought it for a trip to Europe. I'm an amateur photographer at best, with no more knowledge of photography than one gets by picking up a camera. It's a telephoto lens, so it needs a lot of light or a tripod for low light pics to come out. This lens tends to take a while to focus, especially if the light is marginal. One nice thing about this lens is the Macro focus ability, which only works between 200-300mm, but works very well.
Overall, I'm satisfied with this lens. Pics are sharp and color is very good.
Love this lens July 27, 2010
Manuel Calavera (Ventura County, California)
I have a Nikon D70. I have used the 18-70mm that came with it and sold it to get the 18-200 which is an awesome lens. I just bought this Sigma because I wanted a macro lens to take some close-up pictures for work as well as my praying mantis and a few lizards. For the price, this lens really delivers. The macro feature is pretty much all I have used it for so far because that's the reason I bought it, and it works great. It feels solid, too. The only negative thing I have noticed so far is that I often have a hard time getting the autofocus to focus correctly in macro mode. Many times it will focus all the way in, all the way out, and stop because it can't figure it out. When this happens I just use the manual focus. However, for this price, I won't dock it a star because it is just ridiculously inexpensive.
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