or stand closer
To be honest I'd think twice about buying a TC to use with slow zooms. if i assume you want more reach, then you're most likely to be at the long end of the zooms, so your 5.6 aperture becomes f/11 with a x2 TC.
What Dave said. The reason your jessops convertor didn't work was likely because the combination of lenses produced an effective aperture too slow for the AF system to work.
Even the under 12's in the WPOTY competition pack several grands' worth of glass.
Or crop the image?
It confused the hell out of the staff in the shop
If its a one-off you could possibly consider hiring the equipment
Good advice from Dave, I missed you were on Nikon, Canon do a 400.5.6 that would be ideal, on Nikon you're stick with various 300s. Beware of the sigma 300/4, not all work on newer bodies.There are old manual primes out there that may work with an adapter, and some (very) manual aperture control. Mine was a Sigma APO 400/5.6, decent and small. If they made them in Olympus there must be some around in Nikon. I don't need mine anymore but it doen't look like it would be possible to adapt it to nikon.
3 out of 4 sigma lens are shit
I must have got the 1 our of 4 with the 10-20mm I got from steveg then, t'is great and no faults yet.
Unless anybody knows of a cheap way (under £250) of getting a 400mm zoom? Second hand 400mm lenses seem to go for extortionate prices on Ebay.
Maybe tlr is really ken rockwell.
400 L is no good on a nikon though. Closest on that site for £50 is the long end of a 80-400vr, which is a good and handy lens, i've used one a couple of times.Of course the buying-then-selling option is more effort but is effectively unlimited rental for free if you do it right.
I'd love to be able to get a 400/5.6 for £50
These have a good rep.
offering an affordable and portable gateway to extend telephoto reach
You're fucking kidding? £450 is not a reasonable price for a converter.