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SIGMA 16-300mm f/3.5-6.7 DC OS Contemporary Announced – an All-Rounder Travel Zoom Lens

SIGMA has announced some sparkly, unique, and exquisite new products, which may cast a shadow on the SIGMA 16-300mm f/3.5-6.7 DC OS Contemporary, the company’s new all-rounder travel zoom. However shiny and innovative they all are, this lens will probably find itself in countless gear bags worldwide, giving photographers and filmmakers extraordinary coverage in a compact, lightweight, weather-resistant chassis. This APS-C glass will be available for various mounts, as most SIGMA DC lenses are. These currently include Canon RF, FUJIFILM X Mount, Sony E-Mount, and the L-Mount. Super-zoom lenses are often disregarded as optically inferior to more modest zoom lenses or primes. I myself have become quite a prime snob over the years, but I do remember the sense of total compositional freedom granted by my first 18-200mm almost 20 years ago. A five-month backpacking trip across South America may also have had a slight effect on this sense of freedom, but it’s not a travel blog here! SIGMA 16-300mm mounted on a Canon EOS R7. Image credit: SIGMA Technical specifications Following SIGMA’s know-how, honed by decades of lens-making, this recent iteration of the classic travel super zoom consists of a rather complex optical formula. The lens is composed of 20 elements in 14 groups. These include one FLD, four SLD, and four aspherical elements to minimize aberrations, ghosting, and flares. The lens will also provide very respectable macro performance. A 1:2 magnification ratio can be achieved at the 70mm setting, with an impressive close focus at other focal lengths....

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