Sigma APO 200 - 500 mm F2.8 lens

[Clayton Harper]

I think this has a Nikon mount:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/07...ma200500mm.asp

[Jaime Vallés]

Holy mother of all that is holy!!!

[chuck colburn]

WOW

If you don't like the quality of the lens you could rip out the guts, put an
o-ring around the front element, seal up the rear end and you got an underwater housing for your RED camera!

[PaulClements]

Hehe, that looks feckin awesome.

There will be alot of "Compensating for something" comments.

[Steve Gibby]

No doubt! Now that's an old style bazooka form factor...

If the lens has manual aperture capability, it could be interesting for long focal length nature and sports shooting. It comes stock with a 2x.

Some of the Sigma lenses are surprisingly good - some of the wide angles, and the 50-500mm zoom.

[Steve Gibby]

There will be alot of "Compensating for something" comments.

Uh huh...someone will undoubtedly ask about hand held shooting with it...

[chuck colburn]

Mine is bigger than yours.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/c...elephoto-lens/

[Steve Gibby]

Mine is bigger than yours.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/c...elephoto-lens/

Hey man...I could shoot hand held with it...it's only 564 pounds...

Imagine the cost of that bugger...

[PaulClements]

You don't need to shoot handheld Gibby because you can get all of your footage from the comfort of your hotel room and simply zoom out a few miles!

[planet e]

i own the sigma 300-800mm 5.6 and it is outstanding and razor-sharp. lots of fun to operate, but it weighs 12 lbs. i can't hand-hold it, but i have stabilized it out of a car window on a beanbag. in fact, here's one of the shots i took with that lens on a beanbag. shot this kestrel at about 80 yards, i guess, out of my car window--don't recall the zoom setting:

http://ia300212.us.archive.org/1/ite...el/kestrel.JPG

sigma makes outstanding large lenses. they're under-rated. i also have the legendary canon 200mm 1.8, and i would say the 300-800mm is its rival for sharpness. once you've worked a 300-800mm lens, everything else seems easy by comparison. this new lens looks like quite a challenge, though. i can rarely resist a challenge....but i think i'll have my hands full with a pair of REDs and a whole new set of lenses.....cha-ching.