imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

IMO, With that lens, your best solution will be to be using a high mp crop frame camera, shoot at 500-550mm, @f8, have the camera/lens well supported and stabilized, and CROP the image using well applied pixel enlargement - if necessary.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

I don't know about the Tamron 150-600mm G2 but I do use a Kenko 1.4x with a Sigma 150-500mm zoom with reasonable results. I also have a Kenko 2x that works but the image quality suffers. I get autofocus with the 1.4x but autofocus is really spotty with the 2x unit.

I plan on acquiring the Tamrom 150-600mm lens prior to the August solar eclipse and will probably try it with the Tamron 1.4x extender. If testing shows reasonable image quality, I'll buy it. I suggest renting/borrowing a unit and testing it prior to buying...

bwa

whitewolfowner

If you are interested in using a TC with the first edition of the Tamron 150-600, I'd call Tamron and ask them about it. Chances are they have tested the teleconverters on the market with the lens and can give you some information on it. I would guess though, that since they redesigned the lens and now offer teleconverters for it, they found that the first edition lens did not fair well with them. Could be the reason they went back and designed the new model. You could also ask Kenko since they make the best generic after market ones.

nikonlad Loc: Venice, FL

Good idea..I'll call them.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Hi nikonlad,

The Tamron 150-600 should give you a good deal of range if the animal is not too far away. I've shot in Yellowstone twice now and used that lens there for some fairly decent shots. The question, as always with a long lens, is how far is too far away. If the subject is out of range of the ability of the long lens you will, as always, not get the shot: don't blame the lens for this. Even after you get the lens, finding the animals and getting close enough is a real problem. Bison are easy to get, sometimes elk are easy, too, so the lens will work well for those animals (do use the tripod if you can get out of the car). Buy a side-kick for the lens to use with a tripod and ball head or buy some other tripod or tripod head of your choice that will allow you to quickly and easily move the lens to follow the animal. Other animals are more elusive, such as birds, and in particular, owls. There were owls hanging around the buildings in Mammoth this past June, that were fairly easy to photo and that lens would work for those owls. And the bears! If a bear is beside the road and you are in a "bear jam," then you will most likely be within range of a shot if the bear comes around your car. Most other instances where you can photo a bear the bear will probably end up being too far away. I went in June with a photo tour guide who knew where the animals were and we got lots of shots but they are sometimes elusive. Saw no moose in Yellowstone but did get my shot of moose in the Teton range, using the 150-600, no TC. I did not use a TC at all on this lens. You can hand-hold this lens, but be sure to brace yourself well and stablize the lens on something, a window, etc. Good luck.