Camera Lenses

Telephoto zoom lenses with tele-macro function, optimized for digital cameras. The high performance telephoto zoom lens is ideal for digital SLR cameras. This lens has two SLD glass elements in the front lens group and one in the rear lens group It is able to shoot with maximum magnification 1:2 at the focal length of 300 mm. It’s the ideal lens for portraits, sports photography, nature photography, and other types of photography that frequently use the telephoto range. New coating reduces Ghost and Flare. The new multi layer lens coating and lens design reduce flare and ghost, which is a common problem with digital cameras and also creates an optimum color balance through the entire zoom range. It is equipped with three pieces of SLD glass for high image quality. This lens has two SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass elements in the front lens group and one in the rear lens group, the lens has excellent correction of chromatic aberration through the entire zoom range. Macro shooting with maximum magnification 1:2 High optical performance is demonstrated throughout the entire zoom range. It also has a switch that converts the lens to macro photography at focal lengths between 200mm and 300mm with a minimum focusing distance of 95cm (37.4 inches). In normal mode the minimum focusing distance is 150cm (59.1 inches) at all zoom settings. Maximum magnification between 200mm and 300mm is 1:2.9 to 1:2

User Reviews about Sigma 70-300mm f 4-5.6 DG APO Macro Motorized Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon SLR Cameras

Better than I could have hoped for. Shooting with a Pentax Kx. I'm getting outstanding shots right out of the box. Have only had for a few weeks, but for now all is good. Great buy. -- Love this lens

It has been a year since I've purchased this lens and it's still doing awesome. For the price you pay, you REALLY can't beat the quality of the pictures that you get. Recommend tripod for macro shots though. If you wish to see examples, go to the customer images and look at the dragon fly pictures from Alberto(that's me). -- Great quality for the price.

As an amateur photographer, I do not demand a lot from my lenses. This lens was hundreds of dollars less than its closest competitor, and for that I give Sigma full marks.

The lens functions well at 70-200mm, with good clarity and decent focus. It is a good low-range zoom lens, and well-worth the price for a first foray into the long-distance zoom lens arena.

The lens obviously has its drawbacks. When I take pictures at 300mm, the lens's autofocus has problems with clarity even in full sunlight. Faces are grainy when viewed at 100%.

The autofocus feature is also quite slow and noisy. Don't expect to be able to take clear pictures of anything in motion except for turtles.

I have also found the macro setting to be quite useless for me. Without use of a tripod, pictures turn out quite blurry. After using the macro setting, I was unable to switch back to normal until I turned off autofocus. The switch simply refused to move.

I like the lens, and will continue to use it. But I will keep saving up. -- Good value, Blurry at distance

I've had the lens for about a month now. We bought it for a trip to Europe. I'm an amateur photographer at best, with no more knowledge of photography than one gets by picking up a camera. It's a telephoto lens, so it needs a lot of light or a tripod for low light pics to come out. This lens tends to take a while to focus, especially if the light is marginal. One nice thing about this lens is the Macro focus ability, which only works between 200-300mm, but works very well.

Overall, I'm satisfied with this lens. Pics are sharp and color is very good. -- Good value telephoto lens

I have a Nikon D70. I have used the 18-70mm that came with it and sold it to get the 18-200 which is an awesome lens. I just bought this Sigma because I wanted a macro lens to take some close-up pictures for work as well as my praying mantis and a few lizards. For the price, this lens really delivers. The macro feature is pretty much all I have used it for so far because that's the reason I bought it, and it works great. It feels solid, too. The only negative thing I have noticed so far is that I often have a hard time getting the autofocus to focus correctly in macro mode. Many times it will focus all the way in, all the way out, and stop because it can't figure it out. When this happens I just use the manual focus. However, for this price, I won't dock it a star because it is just ridiculously inexpensive. -- Love this lens