Nikon TC-14E III AF-S Teleconverter for Camera

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As you can already tell, some teleconverters have serious disadvantages that you have to keep in mind. Aside from lens compatibility and cross-brand compatibility issues, teleconverters decrease the overall sharpness of the primary lens, magnify its lens aberrations, and reduce autofocus speed and accuracy. This is especially true for 2.0x and longer teleconverters. For instance,VR works great with my stabilized Z 400mm f/4.5 VR. With a stabilized camera like my Z7II I can hand-hold at 1/30 of a second, with this or even with Z TC 2× teleconverter. I get perfectly sharp shots almost all the time at 1/30 with VR, but need 1/2,000 to get the same results without VR. Filter-thread: no need to buy new ones. The same filters still can be used at the front of the lens. Which in case of the Nikon Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S are 77mm diameter. [+] The Sigma 1.4x teleconverter seems to be a pretty solid choice for Sigma lenses. As you can see from this review, it works very well with the new Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 Sport lens and shows impressive performance when stopped down to f/5.6 range and smaller. It is a very compact teleconverter that only weighs 160 grams, so you could leave it on the 120-300mm f/2.8 lens without adding much more weight.

On the lists, the lenses marked "AF" will retain auto focus operation when used with a Tele Converter. The lenses marked "MF can only be used for manual focus. Some lenses will be operated AF even mentioned "MF", however, be aware that these lenses cannot focus precisely by auto focusing. Therefore, please use such lenses in MF mode when teleconverter is attached. With the converter in place, contrast is pretty much the same as without, even when shooting into the light at maximum aperture. Keep all of this firmly in mind as you browse our guide to the best teleconverters, and decide which is the best option for your camera and lenses. We've split our guide into sections for each lens mount to help you find teleconverters to fit your system. Canon EF mount teleconverters That goes to show what I said a moment ago! If you’re using a zoom lens, try to avoid using a wider focal length plus a teleconverter. You’ll get better results by removing the teleconverter and zooming in instead. 2. Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S at 200mmTeleconverters are convenient when you want to increase the apparent telephoto reach of specific NIKKOR lenses, especially when compared to the physical size of some of the longer super-telephoto NIKKORs. Also, when you use a teleconverter, you don’t lose the close focusing distance of the lens, which is an added benefit.

Because teleconverter compatibility is dependent upon lens use, the lenses that will work with a teleconverter are all FX lenses (those that are designed for use with the larger FX format image sensor or film SLR cameras. D700, D3S pixel pitch 8.42 µm, D850 4.34 µm, Sony Alpha 7Sii 8.32 µm, Sony Alpha 7Riv 3.76 µm, Canon EOS 90D 3.19 µm. For example, with an f/2.8 lens, the maximum aperture is f/4. With an f/5.6 lens, the maximum aperture is f/8. TCs rarely are useful; they greatly magnify problems and make everything darker. I prefer to crop from unconverted images. To detach a teleconverter, just reverse the process. It doesn’t matter if you detach the lens and then the teleconverter, or you unmount both from the camera and detach them individually.

Also, I wonder whether a TC might improve the performance of a given lens on a low-MPx body, where the lens out-resolved the sensor, yet degrade performance on a high-MPx body, where the sensor out-resolved the lens. What's impressive is that the sharpness doesn't vary from center to corner, and how clearly you can see how these heat waves warp straight lines. This is a detailed review of the Sigma 1.4x Teleconverter EX APO DG for the Nikon mount. I had a chance to test out this teleconverter, along with the 2x Sigma teleconverter when working with the Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 lens (review to be published within the next week), so I wanted to share some of my findings and compare the teleconverter to its Nikon counterpart, the Nikkor TC-14E II. In this review, I will go over the optical characteristics of the Sigma 1.4x teleconverter and talk about its performance when using both Sigma and Nikon super-telephoto lenses. Thank you for what is, by a long way, the most comprehensive and informative article I’ve seen on teleconverters. However, I think it could be even better with more reference to sensor pixel densities. I see that many of the shots illustrating the article were taken on 12 MPx cameras.