I don't know who started this "Nazi" production crap, but he should be hung by his "delicate parts" by a fine wire.

There are three interpretations of "Z" here:

1. The letter "Z" or "Zed" which should need no explanation. For years, automobile manufactures have used this a a model,designation to describe the ultimate in performance.

2. The "reverse swastika", properly called the "aswastika"or occasionally the "sauwastika" which actually looks more like the "Z" than the Nazi symbol.

3. The true swastika, an ancient sign of peace and good, adopted by the Nazi party and which, in no way, resembles "Z".

I believe I should clarify somethings:

1. Teleconverters are precision components of lens systems designed to work with the approved related lenses. Teleconverters coupled with mismatched lenses can be as ineffective as using a Radio Flyer wagon wheel as a spare on your Citroen.

2. Auxiliary lenses are components of, from adequate to superb quality designed to mate with specific camera and/or lens models. They were, again, precision components of camera systems back into the 1930's (1920's?), but have been used effectively into the path 20th or early 21st centuries. Want to go back further? Consider the convertible lenses of the earlier wet plate photographers.

3. Telephoto lens converters are contemperary (within the last half century) devices, intended to imitate the above two options. While some are barely adequate, others are toys and/out pieces of trash.

DO NOT LET NOMENCLATURE FOOL YOU. SOME MARKETERS CAN BE FIENDISHLY MANIPULATIVE. AND REMEMBER, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR; THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES!

Worse yet, I believed Canon supplied the cards.

BUT, in all fairness, this was on the beaches of Hawaii - sand.

No. Too many other options.

Please don't make my start crying again.

Yeah, ain't it cool?

Actually, I believe they had four cards fail - and a Canon professional there to witness it; he's probably still scratching his head.

A long, long time ago, in this very Galaxy, there were high quality, very expensive, fixed lens (often folding) film cameras that came with, either in kits or with separately sold, auxiliary lens, ranging from micro (an absurd idea with parallax) to 3X to 5X telephotos. I have shot several of these cameras, some with Kodachrome. I was amazed at the quality of some of the images shot with auxiliary lenses. The difference was that the designers/engineers had first built a standard lens that intended to match up with auxiliary lenses and then built auxiliary lenses specifically for that particular camera. Some of these lenses we're almost as expensive as the camera, and a kit, usually in a velvet-lined case, could cost a small fortune (some still do). There's a BIG difference between those lenses and a cheap mass-produced one-fits-all plastic piece of crap junk available today.

And often a lot funnier......

Try eBay.

I'm not quite that crazy......yet! I'll just use the unwatchable option.

Yeah, but try stopping it on this forum. Also, try stopping dozens of useless post after the OP announcer that the problem is solved and thanks everyone.

Ask them, "Which museum?"

FROM THE OP ON PAGE TWO (THAT'S 2 FOR THOSE WHO DON'T READ):

"Thanks for the replies everyone. I just texted her and told her I won’t be doing it. Just waiting for a reply..."

GOOD GRIEF, PEOPLE, IT'S OVER; GIVE IT A REST!!!!!!

Yeah, if you're making excuses,, you never want to put in one that can nullify the others.