Well captured

It's good at £50, an absolute steal at £20

They also make an excellent portrait lens close to the optimum of 135mm in the film days on an APSC body

Not any more, prefer to maintain F4 and crop as required.

I've had a Sigma 100-300 for about 25 years, its one of the early ones with the peeling paint, but the optics are superb and and its a cracking lens, I've used mine on film camera's as well as a K5ii / K3ii and a K1, I have had it with the matched 1.4 TC but with digital I prefer to crop and keep the maximum aperture.

The lens hooked to the K3ii is my go to setup for aircraft, particularly the Mach Loop or sat at the end of the runway at Brize Norton.

K3ii - Sigma 100 - 300 F4 @ 200mm - F20 - 100 ISO - 1/80 sec




K3ii - Sigma 100 - 300 F4 @ 100mm - F5.6 - 3200 ISO - 1/2000 sec

These are really good, particularly #1 and #5, although my preference is to shoot fungi in the available light on a tripod etc, I prefer the softer tones of the natural light v the more harsh light from a flashgun, but theres always more than one way to skin a cat !!!

#2 is superb you've captured it well

Morning Benz3ne

Thanks for your comment, I'd previously used the little Manfrotto mini tripod, which wasn't man enough for the Z so by recommendation on another forum, I purchased one of these

Very well made, supports the Z plus the 120mm macro plus a ext tube with no problem, the link is just to the legs, they do a kit with a decent ball head which is what I went for.

Some Fungi from a shoot last weekend, the conditions have been superb recently and theres loads of fungi about

645z plus 120mm Macro + 40mm Ext Tube - all natural light on mini tripod - exp around 1/2 sec - 100 ISO F8 ish

Totally agree with HarisF1, I've purchased many items from Japanese sellers, worth a try, you've nothing to lose