Ever felt that your current lens setup does not have enough reach?
Purchasing lens of longer focal length is out of your budget?
Considering a tele-converter but afraid of degrading image quality?
This mini review should help you out.
It is known that by using a tele-converter on your lens, your image quality will degrade tremendously.
Due to the added element, the image quality would bound to be degraded and many would opt to go for their systems brand tele-converters instead of looking for a 3rd-party like the Kenko tele-converters.
The fact that image quality would be degraded, and prime lenses are much sharper than zooms, most would recommend that to only use tele-converters on prime lens with large aperture.
This mini-review is to help users with low budget that needs the extra range in photography, you can view the images and decide for yourself if you could accept the image quality when using a tele-converter.
Equipment used
Nikon D700 + Shutter Release Cable
Nikon AFS Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF ED VR
Kenko Teleplus Pro300 DG 1.4x
Kenko Teleplus Pro300 DGX 2x
Sirui R1204 + G20
Camera Settings
Quality: JPG Fine
Picture Control: D2X M1
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
ISO: 200
The Nikkor is a popular lens among sports and event photographers and is rather affordable, note that the Nikkor in this review is the first version and not the latest VR II.
The Pro300 is the best series of the Kenko Teleplus range, there are other series such as the MC4 and MC7 which are optically inferior to the Pro300 series.
There are 3 versions of the Pro300 series, the Pro300, Pro300 DG and Pro300 DGX, which is the latest and best of Kenko Teleplus.
Some notes about the review
For the test images below, please click to enlarge. If your browser auto resize the image ot fit your screen, do set it back to full image size so as to be able to view the image quality at 100% crop.
The tests are conducting shooting at the widest and most tele focal lengths. 100% crops are taken from the center and top left corner of the image.
Due to the 12Megapixel sensor of the D700, some 100% crop images taken at the wide end might appear to be less sharp as compared to the 100% crop images taken at the tele end, and that is due to pixel density.
Test shots are taken at the following f-stops(where permitted): f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/6.3, f/8, f/11 with VR turned off.
This is not a professional review
Disclaimer
This review has no relation to Mitsubishi Electric, it just so happen that from the location of the review, that signboard was a good subject for sharpness test.
Review was original posted on E.TAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Purchasing lens of longer focal length is out of your budget?
Considering a tele-converter but afraid of degrading image quality?
This mini review should help you out.
It is known that by using a tele-converter on your lens, your image quality will degrade tremendously.
Due to the added element, the image quality would bound to be degraded and many would opt to go for their systems brand tele-converters instead of looking for a 3rd-party like the Kenko tele-converters.
The fact that image quality would be degraded, and prime lenses are much sharper than zooms, most would recommend that to only use tele-converters on prime lens with large aperture.
This mini-review is to help users with low budget that needs the extra range in photography, you can view the images and decide for yourself if you could accept the image quality when using a tele-converter.
Equipment used
Nikon D700 + Shutter Release Cable
Nikon AFS Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF ED VR
Kenko Teleplus Pro300 DG 1.4x
Kenko Teleplus Pro300 DGX 2x
Sirui R1204 + G20
Camera Settings
Quality: JPG Fine
Picture Control: D2X M1
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
ISO: 200
The Nikkor is a popular lens among sports and event photographers and is rather affordable, note that the Nikkor in this review is the first version and not the latest VR II.
The Pro300 is the best series of the Kenko Teleplus range, there are other series such as the MC4 and MC7 which are optically inferior to the Pro300 series.
There are 3 versions of the Pro300 series, the Pro300, Pro300 DG and Pro300 DGX, which is the latest and best of Kenko Teleplus.
Some notes about the review
For the test images below, please click to enlarge. If your browser auto resize the image ot fit your screen, do set it back to full image size so as to be able to view the image quality at 100% crop.
The tests are conducting shooting at the widest and most tele focal lengths. 100% crops are taken from the center and top left corner of the image.
Due to the 12Megapixel sensor of the D700, some 100% crop images taken at the wide end might appear to be less sharp as compared to the 100% crop images taken at the tele end, and that is due to pixel density.
Test shots are taken at the following f-stops(where permitted): f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/6.3, f/8, f/11 with VR turned off.
This is not a professional review
Disclaimer
This review has no relation to Mitsubishi Electric, it just so happen that from the location of the review, that signboard was a good subject for sharpness test.
Review was original posted on E.TAN PHOTOGRAPHY
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