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Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM Contemporary

lens · Canon EF / Nikon F · released 2014-09-12
Lowest now
$289
Good price -50% vs MSRP
Pricing by source ↓
MSRP at launch
$579
Sep 2014
Inventory
5
across 2 sources

Lowest price we've ever observed

How we compute this

Lowest price we've ever observed. This at $289 matches the lowest we've ever recorded for this body. That's 50% of the $579 MSRP. Prices have been steady this month.

Based on only 1 observed day in the last 90; the trend confidence is low until our history fills in.

Lowest now
$289
MSRP
$579
vs MSRP
-50%
90-day low
$289
All-time low
$289 (Aug 25, 2026)
30-day trend
+0.0%
Observed across 2 sources · 1 day of history in last 90 · Methodology

Sample photos

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Specs

Brand
Sigma
Family
Sigma
Category
lens
Body type
Mount
Canon EF / Nikon F
Sensor
Megapixels
Lens type
zoom
Focal length
18–300mm
Aperture
f/3.5–f/6.3
Weight
585 g
Filter thread
72mm
Length
Diameter
Construction
Released
2014-09-12
Status
discontinued

Notes

16.6x APS-C superzoom with 1:3 macro. OS offered only on the Sigma, Canon and Nikon versions.

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
ebay
used
→ good
$289
ships free
3 Observed 9h ago view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$289
1 Observed 4h ago view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$314
1 Observed 4h ago view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.