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I had a look at Mr Frost's review of this last night. Performance looks up to the mark, but the size and weight of this bloody beast, wow! I had the 150-600mm Sigma for two days before I took it back and swapped it for my Sony and just the difference in handling alone made that decision very worthwhile. The Sony just balances so well and has such a short easy zoom throw, they miraculously made this beast of a lens feel light and nimble, and not to mention the bigger gap between the foot and the lens body fits my large fingers way easier as I basically just hold the foot to operate it that way it's super easy to go from carry to shoot very quickly. Also, physically I won't get worn down so that's a non issue, but I found the Sigma mentally wears you down after long use because it's such a mission to operate whereas I can use the Sony all day and not feel agitated or what not because of it's ease of use, it is literally like an extension of your arm.

This new Sigma is even more lens with what looks like identical zooming mechanism. Now my first observation when I went from the Sigma to the Sony was that the Sigma felt clumsy in comparison so as it has already been mentioned, I'm not seeing anyone buy this new one instead 1. Especially for the same price and 2. When you would still need to have other lenses with you along with this anyway. It is definitely not like this would be a go to for it's 60-200mm range for general walk around city/street shooting or something.