American Bison ( Buffalo ) Sigma 50-500

[KerryPierce]

Nikon D70 ,Sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 EX APO RF
1/320s f/8.0 at 500.0mm ISO 400 hand held

[PiroStitch]

Nice and sharp Love the shaggy fur

[beltbuckle]

Nice and sharp Kerry, that beast has some hair. How do you like the Sigma 50-500? It is a lens I am seriously thinking about as the successor to my 70-300 when I can save up the funds. Looks pretty sharp at 500mm!

[sirhc55]

Nice pic Kerry but I wonder why you did not use a 50mm lens

[KerryPierce]

Nice and sharp Love the shaggy fur

Thanks, Piro.

[KerryPierce]

Nice and sharp Kerry, that beast has some hair. How do you like the Sigma 50-500? It is a lens I am seriously thinking about as the successor to my 70-300 when I can save up the funds. Looks pretty sharp at 500mm!

If you're willing to use at least a monopod in good light and tripod in lesser lighting, the lens will make you happy. If you're more inclined to hand held shots, like I am, I'd suggest that one of the 80-400 lenses would prolly be a better solution.

The Bigma seems to be a great lens, but I can't shoot hand held shots all day with it, like I can the 80-400vr, and get acceptable sharpness. On a tripod with a good head, either lens is simply amazing to me.

I'd be willing to bet that you'd be happier with your 70-300 if you used a monopod at least at focal lengths above 150mm. My current love is the Feisol monopod with a Manfrotto 3232 tilt head.

[KerryPierce]

Nice pic Kerry but I wonder why you did not use a 50mm lens

But, I did! I started at 50 and zoomed to 500.....

[Gordon]

Nice pic Kerry, when I was in Yellowstone NP in 99 I had a rather scary close encounter with a bison, it walked up to me when I was standing on a wooden walkway (you have to use them to avoid falling through the thin crust and get boiled alive!)
My FE2 was in my backpack, trying to keep the frost off it, there was a monster bison sniffing me from about 1 arms length, and I decided standing very still was the safest thing to do, so as to make the bull bison think I wasnt a threat to his herd of females and calves, despite really wanting to get my camera out!
24mm would have been perfect

Gordon

[KerryPierce]

Nice pic Kerry, when I was in Yellowstone NP in 99 I had a rather scary close encounter with a bison, it walked up to me when I was standing on a wooden walkway (you have to use them to avoid falling through the thin crust and get boiled alive!)
My FE2 was in my backpack, trying to keep the frost off it, there was a monster bison sniffing me from about 1 arms length, and I decided standing very still was the safest thing to do, so as to make the bull bison think I wasnt a threat to his herd of females and calves, despite really wanting to get my camera out!
24mm would have been perfect

Gordon

woof! That's just a little too close, Gordon. You'd have gotten feature distortion from the WA at that distance and extreme redeye from the flash and probably your lens would have fogged from the critter's bad breath. The shot prolly would have been ruined.

But, I'll bet that you don't leave the camera in the backpack all the time now.