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TCON-17 setting on the XZ-1

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Darrell Spreen Forum Pro • Posts: 11,153
Excellent result

The IQ looks very impressive to me. I don't observe any of the problems like vignetting or fringing due to chromatic aberrations or edge fall-off.

There are a number of good telephoto converter lenses and a few use the same optical formula as the Oly 1.7X tcon....I'm not familiar with the Ricoh design.

Also, many people don't know that a number of prime telephoto lenses from Nikon, etc. use afocal lens groups in the designs. Essentially the same as adding the telephoto converter lenses to your camera.

Here's a very old comparison of some of the tele converters which may interest you.

https://pages.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/FZ-30/Converters/Lenses/Telephoto.html

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