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Do any of your extension tubes mate with the Oly teleconverters?

Started Feb 23, 2021 | Questions thread
WileEC_ID
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Re: Do any of your extension tubes mate with the Oly teleconverters?

meow wrote:

WileEC_ID wrote:

john isaacs wrote:

WileEC_ID wrote:

Thanks all for your help on this. You have provided the help I was hoping for. I will invest in a "sacrificial" set of extension tubes that I will shave down. As a card carrying DIYer I have plenty of tools that will allow me to approach this carefully.

Great help - thank you!

I did not shave my Pixco 16mm because the pictures I saw looked like they had lost the black damping and could throw reflections and impact contrast.

I have a set of Pixco and a set of Kenko. I use the Pixco 10mm and Kenko 10mm or Pixco 16mm on either the MC-14 or MC-20. This gives me either 20mm or 26mm extension.

If you really want 16mm extension, then shave away.

The reason Pixco works is because they have a deeper recess on the contacts ring that does not contact the mount-prevention tab on the TCs. I don't know of any other tubes that will work.

Interesting - I didn't read anyone mentioning that tab, so I made the assumption the issue was with the lens element that sticks out from the EC-14. My mistake.

Live and learn.

So thought I. Maybe it's both? Why else would the plastic need shaving?

My Pixcos set still hasn't left China. Last tracking note is from jan 27.

Well - the shaving point completely makes sense - most of the sets seem to have their inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the teleconverter. Peter 1745 provided a lot of great and detailed info about that in the fifth reply in this thread.

I just wasn't aware of that tab - am now and may take a shot at trimming out some plastic to allow for that, too.

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