While, it hasn't changed my life, I have absolutely enjoy using this lens along with my Powershot S70. It's a great tool when it's used as intended. This lens is designed to extend your camera's optical zoom by 2X. This is very useful if you're shooting in Camera RAW. The S70 doesn't enable digital zoom when shooting in RAW. Please keep in mind that this lens is for distance and landscape shots. It's not an alternative to your regular optical zoom. Nor is it for indoor pictures. You should use your regular zoom in these instances. People have commented that using the flash with this lens will create a goofy blur on your photo. This is true. But, you shouldn't be using your flash anyway. When taking a picture of a mountain, the little flash bulb isn't going to help if there isn't enough natural light. So, turn the flash off and try not to wait until nightfall to start taking pictures. You'll find that this is a great lens for those of us who want a little more zoom and are just not ready to swallow the cost of a good DSLR.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Canon TCDC10 Tele Converter for the S60, S70 & S80 Digital Cameras Review
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Kenko 2X Teleplus - 4 Element DG Auto Focus-SONY/Minolta Review
Placed between the camera body and lens, a teleconverter contains a set of optics that will effectively increase the focal length of any lens it is used with. The Kenko AF Teleplus converter MC4 also has genuine Gate Array IC same as the model MC7 and the computer designed 4-element tele-converter provides incomparable performance in 2x telephoto.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sony VCL-DH1758 Tele Conversion Lens for DSCH1 Digital Camera Review
I recently bought this lens for a fuji s100fs camera. It works pretty well on this camera. I had to use a 67-58 step-down adaptor ring for it to adapt on the camera and due to vignetting at the wide angle it is not too useful until I zoom to about 200mm. But from 200-400 it is nice and clear. I have already gotten some real good moon shots with this combination and am looking forward to using it for pictures of birds. It is light enough to not be too heavy on my camera when fully zoomed. It is not advertised for this camera much but it works really well. I think Sony is putting some good glass in these tcons for the money.Fujifilm Finepix S100fs 11.1MP Digital Camera with 14.3x Wide Angle Dual Image Stabilized Optical Zoom
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Canon TL30.5 1.9x Extended MagnificationTeleConverter for ZR 80/85/90 Review
Not enough zoom? Make those distant scenes closer to you by extending your telephoto capabilities with Canon optics by using the 1.9X tele-converter. Never miss a shot again.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Kenko 2X Teleplus - 7 Element DG- Nikon Auto Focus Review
The Kenko Teleplus MC 7 AF converter has the effect of doubling the focal length of your lens. For example, using the MC 7 AF teleconverter with a 300 mm lens will effectively increase the focal length to 600 mm. Placed between the camera body and lens, a teleconverter contains a set of optics that will effectively increase the focal length of any lens it is used with. The Kenko Teleplus MC 7 AF converter has the effect of doubling the focal length of your lens. For example, using the MC 7 AF teleconverter with a 300 mm lens will effectively increase the focal length to 600 mm.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Kenko 2X Teleplus - 7 Element DG- Pentax Auto Focus Review
I've only been using this product for one day but so far I think it's wonderful. As with many amateur photographers I'm on a very tight budget when it comes to gear so I did lots and lots of research before purchasing the MC-7 (2X) teleconverter. What I found after reviewing many images (found on Google) taken with the MC-4 and the MC-7 was that the MC-7 is significantly higher quality than the MC-4 and well worth the extra money.
For the record I'm using my MC-7 on a Pentax K200D with a Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2 (Model A17). With the teleconverter attached my 70-300mm f/4-5.6 becomes a 140-600mm f/8-11. One big advantage to a teleconverter is that it doubles the magnification while keeping the minimum focal distance the same. On my first use this enabled me to take a picture of a dragonfly at about 3 feet and 180mm which filled the entire frame. I've upload this image as a reference. Some detail was lost in the resizing for Amazon.com but you'll get the idea.
Bottom line...this teleconverter does an acceptable job even with a relatively slow lens. If your using a similar lens plan to use a tripod, use auto-focus but fine tune manually, and you may notice some over or under exposure from time to time. You should expect better performance from a faster f/4 or f/2.8 lens. Personally I'm holding out for the yet-to-be-released Tamron SP AF70-200mm F/2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro (Model A001), but that's a story for another time.
Pentax K200D 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro Lens with hood for Pentax DSLR Cameras
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Kenko 1.5X Teleplus - 4 Element DG Auto Focus-Canon EOS Review
This product definitely does extend the range of my lenses, but it does not perform at all well on the auto-focus function except on large targets in bright light. It is virtually useless in low-light situations, or with smaller targets unless tripod mounted even in good light. We were shooting water birds at some distance, and I was trying to use this tele-converter with both my 18-200 and 70-300 Tamron lenses, but I had to shoot everything on manual, because the auto-focus could not lock on. So I'm definitely disappointed.
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