Sigma 18-200mm OS lens
November 21st, 2008 | 
Author: I just got the Sigma 18-200mm OS lens, Amazon shipped it to me overnight and true to their estimate it got here the next day. I haven’t had a chance to do anything with it yet, I’m heading out of town this weekend and hope to get some use out of it.
I took a few quick shots to show what the lens looks like in regards to the standard 18-55mm lens that comes with the camera. While it’s not tremendously bigger, it is significantly heavier. The kit lens has a 58mm lens fitting while the 200mm has a 72mm filter fitting.
While they look somewhat similar to start off that changes when the Sigma hits the 200mm mark, it nearly doubles in size. It’s kind of attention getting and certainly more substantial than the original lens.
Here are two simple shots I took at the 18mm and 200mm setting. I have to say the first picture has plenty of color and contrast in it. I don’t have a polarizer for the lens yet (perhaps this weekend) so it looks pretty good. The second picture looks a little flat, but then again, the grass really is dormant and brown and the water is pretty murky. But the zoom is pretty impressive, the bench can’t even be seen in the first picture, yet in the second picture you can see it easily. Not too shabby on the zoom front.
I haven’t done anything with the OS setting yet, haven’t had a need, only taken 4 shots with this thing. There is a small switch to turn it on or off, a zoom lock to keep the lens from creeping and of course the MF switch. One thing I learned is you need to make sure the OS is off before disconnecting the lens. And when the OS is on, it’s draining the battery, so those are interesting things to note.
And here is final picture of the camera and lens together. It actually makes it quite a bit heavier and certainly bigger. I’ll give some more details on how the camera works after this weekend. Not sure what kind of pictures I’ll take, but I should have a better idea of how it works.
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