1.4 Teleconverter trial

[mike from ebbw]

I agree Roy,they dont work well on all lenses but I have had some cracking pics with both my ef 75-300 and my sigma 135-400.The attached pics were taken with the sigma and the kenko pro 1.4x TC.The redstart is quite a heavy crop and needed some work in photoshop as it was overexposed by 1 stop (dont ask!) and was washed out.I have a few examples when using the 75-300 and the cheaper kenko 1.5x TC on my birdforum gallery.I would have downloaded some off there and attached them here but it is offline at the moment.

[Snowyowl]

Thanks, guys. I'll be careful but if I could get shots like John's with a tc I'd be delighted.

[Snowyowl]

Nice shots, Mike. I'll be in Ontario this summer and will be talking to the folks at Henry's (a leading Canadian camera shop). They have a good reputation and hopefully will steer me right. The toughest thing will be convincing my wife.

[mike from ebbw]

Managed to dig out the gull shot from my birdforum gallery.This was taken on my 300d with my ef 75-300mm and the cheaper kenko 1.5x converter.

[Don Hoey]

I just ordered a Kenko 1.4 Pro 300 to use with my manual focus Nikkor 400 IFED AIS f5.6 lens. I will post some test results when I get it.

Don

[Christine]

This shot was taken today using a Canon1x4 with the 100-400.I had messed up the lens on my 400F5.6 trying to clean it,and made it very smeary,so had to use the 100-400 with the 1x4 attached,too windy to remove.Considering I was shooting directly into the sun,and not holding the cam very steady,not bad.Bird is a Meadow Pipit.

[Roy C]

Originally Posted by Christine

This shot was taken today using a Canon1x4 with the 100-400.I had messed up the lens on my 400F5.6 trying to clean it,and made it very smeary,so had to use the 100-400 with the 1x4 attached,too windy to remove.Considering I was shooting directly into the sun,and not holding the cam very steady,not bad.Bird is a Meadow Pipit.

Nice one Christine - still plenty of detail in the bird. Hope you can clean your 400mm prime ok.

[Saphire]

A lovely sharp photo Christine. I do hope its only a smear and can be cleaned off.

[John]

Well done Christine nicely exposed and good contrast for against the light. Sorry about your lens smear. I hope there is no permanent damage. I am not using my Canon 400 mm f5.6 as much as I expected to mainly because often, I unexpectedly need to shoot closer than 11.5 feet.

[Christine]

Thankyou for the comments and concern,have not had time to check the lens,I spit on the cleaning cloth to remove a stubborn smudge and the heat of the sun dried everything too quickly,so I am trying to think how to clean it properly.Maybe some sensor cleaning fluid may work-----but,I cannot be too bad,'cos I took this shot this afternoon outside my back door,and apart from removing the dust spots.no other editing needed.but I will have a try tommorrow,as it is very smeary.