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Moderately better image and other benefits

Started Apr 10, 2021 | User reviews thread
Tirpitz666 Contributing Member • Posts: 705
Re: Moderately better image and other benefits

Hi, interesting feedback of course, just waiting for an used 300 2.8 II myself to substitute my 400 2.8 IS vI which is just too heavy for me to carry around, my back is clearly giving me signals that it is time to part with it (begrudgingly of course, as it's still super sharp).

So of course curious how this lens would fare against it at "equivalent FL". Yeah your shots with the TC aren't super-duper sharp, but they are wide open, have you tried to stop down to F5.6 with the TC on? My experience with the 2X is that with one stop down it's really night a day vs wide open, much sharper and contrastier (which another thing that seems to lack a bit in your shots).

Also if you want to shoot wide open and don't mind the resolution loss, try to use the bare lens and crop to 1.4x magnification, I suspect the vs using the TC wide open you will anyway get better results

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