SIGMA 18-200mm Lens - Unboxing

I waited for over a year for this lens. At first I was going to buy me a Tamron 17-50mm. The Tamron is a good lens, specially for Rebel users. But I still need to carry a zoom lens regardless. For now, I just want a standard walk-around lens where I can only use one lens for almost anything I want to photograph: from standards, macros, to zoom. At a price range from 300 bucks to 500 bucks. I say, I picked just the right lens for my Canon 20D, which is the SIGMA 18-200mm. Optical Image Stabilizer (only in good lightings or with a flash, it can take steady shots even when lens is shaky). I got it from Amazon for under 400 bucks. Used, but still looks brand new.



June 30th, 2011. The box arrived.


Packed pretty securely, with popcorns and bubbled wraps.


There it is. Typical SIGMA design.


With the Lens Hood, @18mm.


With the Lens Hood, @200mm.


The Sigma 18-200mm Lens with my Canon 20D.


Lens Hood gives richer color for your captures, and protects from sun flares and glares. But flares and glares isn't so bad once a while, so I keep the hood backwards like this, It also gets in the way when using the built in flash indoors.

FOCAL LENGTHS
Weak point is low light areas. Blurs badly when subject is moving, even when I set the shutter speed to Sport Mode. Unless using a flash, or have some good photo studio lightings.

Around the same price range, I picked this lens over these lens:
-Tamron AF 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3
-Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS
-Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
-Canon EF-S 18mm-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS


@18mm


@63mm


@173mm


@78mm


@200mm


@18mm


@78mm


@78mm


@200mm

I also recently bought this old school point & shoot film camera. Canon Sprint 35mm. I won it from eBay for under 11 bucks.


I still haven't shot my Minolta X-700 yet. I will post some results on that later.