1.4 or 2.0 converter?
Jul 28, 2022 08:58:16 #
petrochemist wrote:
Bill, the fact that you can take some nice pictures without a teleconverter is totally irrelevant on a thread discussing the relative merits of teleconverters. Other winning shots are taken with teleconverters & sometimes getting the shot requires the extra reach these give.
Teleconverters are used by professionals quite extensively in wildlife & sports shooting and they regularly get winning shots or they would be out of business.
Teleconverters are used by professionals quite extensively in wildlife & sports shooting and they regularly get winning shots or they would be out of business.
Jul 28, 2022 19:14:40 #
Jul 28, 2022 19:15:52 #
Notorious T.O.D. wrote:
I agree! I use a 2x canon extender with my 70-200 f/2.8 II with good results. Auto focus works just fine. I have also used it with the 300 f/2.8 with excellent results.
Jul 28, 2022 19:27:32 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
Bill_de wrote:
With the 2.0 you are losing a stop of light. Of course if your style/type of shooting can spare that extra stop, no harm, no foul. You are probably losing some sharpness as well. But, IMHO, too many things are over sharpened, just because we can.
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In addition, the results from 2.0 converters is quite often much less sharp than from 1.4 converters.
Jul 28, 2022 19:29:40 #
billnikon wrote:
Just as I expected, you can talk but you can't walk. Just another equipment geek who can talk a good game but can't back it up with images. Too bad, well, below is another winner from my Sony with no teleconverter. That's me two, you, the TALKING HEAD, 0.
lol, lol, lol,
Anyone who has followed me here in UHH has seen my images, including with TCs. I refuse to get into an image shouting match with you Bill. Grow up fella.
I am just as old a veteran shooter as you are. But I am not blind to use all the best of the current gear, including TCs. No one here really cares if you NEVER use a TC. But be open minded enough to recognize the new reality of excellent optical quality TCs now from all major makers.
I have admired your work in the past and said so here in UHH, and still do, but you are totally closed off to any reality but your own at times. Whew!!!!!!!!
Join a few Sports and Wildlife Photography Facebook groups and be enlightened.
But I guess it is easier for you to hide your head in the sand and scream that only good shots can be made without any TC, rather than face the reality that everyone else here in this discussion knows but you , that top pros and amateurs alike make great shots with and without TCs.
Feel free to check out just one of my webpages and guess which were made with TCs and which were not, in addition to the ones I have posted here in this discussion already. Or did you miss those?
https://www.facebook.com/GSWilliamsPhotography
Cheers and best to you Bill.
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