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Canon Extenders

  • 03-01-2006 12:42am
    #1
    jiffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I've just got an EOS digital SLR and I'm looking at buying additional lense(s) for it. Ideally I'd like to be able to go all the way from 55-600 but since there isn't one I'm stuck.

    I really like the EF 75-300 and I thought that in conjunction with a 1.4 or 2.0 converter the 18-55 lens and a 75-300 would cover me nicely all the way upto 600.

    Since I don't know a lot about converters, are there any drawbacks, will the image quality suffer at all ?

    Cheers,

    Matt


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  • #2
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    Canon converters are made for fast Canon lenses, 70-200 2.8 etc, they won't AF on any lenses slower than 5.6, infact I'm not sure if they will even fit a 70-300 or the other lenses you mentioned. Also Canon converters will not fit any third party lenses. For a cheaper and quite good alternative try Kenko, they will fit most third party except I think Sigma fast lenses and may also AF above 5.6 in very good light. The 2x will degrade your image and hunt quite a bit no matter what brand you use, the 1.4x are generally ok, depending on the light it may hunt but you can get some excellent quality pics with them.


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