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R5 & RF100-500mm - experience adding teleconverter?

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axlotl Senior Member • Posts: 2,273
Re: R5 & RF100-500mm - experience adding teleconverter?
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kentmcpherson wrote:

I recently purchased a Canon R5 and RF100-500mm lens. I am mostly into bird photography and am wondering if there are others with practical experience adding either Canon’s 1.4 or 2.0 teleconverter and how it worked.

Thanks!

I have the 1.4x extender.  My tests show that on the R5 this gives a small increase in image detail compared to the bare lens cropped. The difference is detectable but subtle.

I find the 1.4x extender works decently well for birds perched but I take it off for BIF.

There are some Youtube videos by users reporting they find no benefit to the extender and have stopped using it.

If you do not already have the extender I suggest spending time with the bare lens on the R5 and see how you go.

The extender is a nuisance. The lens must be zoomed out to 300mm before the extender can be mounted. Now the lens+camera combination is quite long.

The LowePro ProTactic TLZ 75 AW 2 can hold the lens with both the extender and camera body mounted.

Andrew

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