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Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 Contemporary on the M system

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OP Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
Sigma 150-600mm C - pixel res images with no teleconverter
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Here are more images from the evening of my shoots in the first post, where I wasn't using the teleconverter, just the bare lens on the M6ii.

They are cropped, however not downsized ---- this is what pixel resolution looks like with the M6ii. For many of the ISO 320 and 400 shots I did not use DeepPrime, rather the default setting for High Quality de-noise --- which gave lovely results with nice texture and detail.

Pixel peeping at the full res images on my large 4k monitor, I see how incredibly shallow the depth of field is with this lens at close distances. Many more shots were slightly mis-focused, on a part of the bird's body but not quite the eye --- and they were not usable, just didn't have that sharpness that helps make the image pop.

The sandpipers in the first 5 images are tiny birds, just a few inches across, but I was close to them, within 20 feet or so. The lens makes them look like giants!  With this lens I found that using the M6ii's 1-point AF (the larger single point) worked very well --- it would snap right to focus as long as I pointed it in the right place on the bird before shooting. The ability to use your thumb to move the focus point while using the EVF is such a useful feature!

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