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Photo Comments. You wouldn't be happy with it Why so serious? Last Edit: 4 years 11 months ago by effron. Scott Klubeck The Lounger. Oh man, save your money. Optically it isn't bad, but otherwise a pain to use. Scott Ditzel Photography www. Your better off spending your money elsewhere. These have horrible image quality IMO. D Nikkor mm 2.
I still have an ols mm F8 "Sharpshooter" but never use it anymore as I have newer lenses in that range, some AF others MF but with auto indexing that's one way of putting it. While I have not tried out this model or brand, Amazon has mixed reviews at best.
Frankly, I wouldn't expect much from it based on the price and the user feedback. Not a good investment if you ask me. What doesn't sound too good to be true about this? Show Me My current camera a Kodak p has an image stabilizer which helps a lot with hand-held telephoto shots and it is tempting to get greedy with magnification for wildlife photos, birds and the like.
Once again, the teleconverter I ought to buy costs more than the el-cheapo stuff on eBay so I decided to try one of the cheap teleconverters and see if I could get lucky again.
With a teleconverter the dividing line between useful and useless is the ability to get a better image using the teleconverter than you would get without it by cropping and enlarging or using the "digital" zoom which is the same thing. So I clicked the "Buy Now" link beside this image in Amazon. Here are a couple of hand-held photos I took from my front porch. I have used browser magic to scale these to make them fit in my blog layout.
This may make them a bit jagged looking. To get a more accurate look at the images go to my Flickr page for this month's photos Here is my neighbor's side porch at full zoom on my P without the teleconverter: Here is the same shot with the teleconverter: Here is a mailbox without the teleconverter: Here it is using the Opteka lens converter. And without the teleconverter using the P's digital zoom to get the same shot: While I was shooting the mailbox a Cardinal perched on it.
He wouldn't sit still to get comparison shots in the same pose. Here he is without the teleconverter: And then with the teleconverter: He's a bit soft in both shots. In the first shot without the tcon he might have been moving or else the autofocus liked the bushes better than the bird. The bushes, at least, are nice and sharp! The shot with the teleconverter is just a mess.
The thing that stands out about the teleconverter is its chromatic aberration. Different colors of light focus at different places. Dehaze and some lowering of the Highlights are your friends when it comes to the veiling flare. From there, you'll still have quite a bit of work to do, though.
Note that none of that post processing brought back feather detail: it's been diffracted out of the picture. Bokeh: Bet you didn't expect me to cover that, did you?
Well, because you're often working with no depth of field, even with these small apertures, guess what? You can get lots of bokeh balls. Definitely bright edge ringing coupled with some bright center, but not particularly objectionable. Moreover, almost no cat eye effect in the corner.
Depending upon how out of focus something is, the out of focus areas range from what I'd call fair to very good. That's often true of simpler lens designs that don't have aspherical elements. Final Words. I'd been wanting to play with one of these simple telephoto zooms for a long time.
Play is the operative word here, as the simple optical design and the fact that you're going to be diffraction impacted almost all of the time on a Z50 and Z7, and much of the time on a Z6, means that you shouldn't be expecting Nikon exotic-type results. Plus, the focusing is on you, buddy. On the other hand, when was the last time you looked through a mm lens or mm with the teleconverter? Right, thought so. Here in the pandemic's stay-at-home-experience, small birds, squirrels, and rabbits quickly became like a video game with this lens.
Could I get them focused fast enough before they moved? Try again. This is definitely a lens you want to spend an afternoon playing that game with, otherwise it's not likely to be useful to you for anything other than taking moon shots. This was such good practice that I'm going to spend some more time attempting to see what I can get out of this lens, slowly working my way from mm to mm and beyond!
Say that last parenthetical bit in a stately voice with reverb. Tip: Turn on focus peaking and assign a button to display magnification. Make sure the focus peaking color is a complement to the subject being photographed. Work your way towards a peaking level of 1 start with 3. The mm's low cost and reasonably quality that you won't break the first day or maybe ever provides an interesting ability that you probably don't have in your Z Gear Closet.
Just beware that the acuity here is lacking, both because of the simple optical design as well as the diffraction impacts. Why can't I find your works in bookstores?
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