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Canon R7, Ef 100-400 ii and 1.4 Tc Bif Photos. Are these acceptable?

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Ephemeris
Ephemeris Senior Member • Posts: 1,186
Re: Canon R7, Ef 100-400 ii and 1.4 Tc Bif Photos. Are these acceptable?
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Victor Engel wrote:

In my testing with EF 100-400 II lens and a bunch of different teleconverters, including the Mark III Canon ones, there was no improvement with any of them over using the lens by itself and resizing. That was using a Canon 5DS. The pixel pitch on the R7 is smaller than with the 5DS, so I would expect no improvement on the R7 either. The lens simply isn't sharp enough to gain an advantage with the TC. But maybe you have a sharper lens than I have. It doesn't appear so, though, from the photos.

We use the same lens and the Mkiii teleconverter on an R5 regularly. This is becuase we are often quite far away from the subjects and still require cropping even with the converter.

We have two setups the same and have toyed with the idea of an R7 but have so far not been convinced it will earn it's body cost (even second user).

The zoom is required due to the target getting closer otherwise a larger white may be a better option.

At the moment we get good results and also use stills (we use a monochrome output) from the 8MP video. This is purely as a backup in case a shot is missed it badly focussed.

I did follow your posts on this topic in the past. One element is that with the converter, we can still use the crop mode and at least in my mind focus tracking has a benefit - something cropping alone can't do

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