Shot handheld & wide open at 1/200 from 6.3 m (~1/3 crop of 36 mp file.) I should probably turn on VR for this sort of thing :-) Anyway, it works much better than any Nikon TC I've ever tried before. Let's put it this way: if I like it, it's pretty good.
Steve Park wrote:
Lance, another great looking image. One question, how far away were you from the bird?
Thank you very much, Steve! I am guessing, but I would say 10-12mts, the bird is about 3-4 inches long from head to tail tip. Both of my EXIF programs do not show camera to subject distance for the D810 for some reason, they do for the D800E and older cameras. One parameter in EXIF Pilot states "Subject Distance Range" but has "unknown" for the result, whereas it shows another parameter as "Focus Distance" and the number 119, but it doesn't seem to correlate with a distnace that makes sense. PhotoME just doesn't show Focus distance at all.
If this one is with the 80-400 you gotta be liking this lens? The 1.4 TC III combo just not too shabby.
I know you are a JPG, SOOC guy, and a web shot is anyone's guess but looks like it be workin for you. Not sure if this is cropped but I remember not too long ago you would have only gotten mud w/any ext on a zoom.
I'll finally be getting some down time the next three weeks to try the new ext. and the 80-400. Good catch/shot.
If this one is with the 80-400 you gotta be liking this lens? The 1.4 TC III combo just not too shabby.
I know you are a JPG, SOOC guy, and a web shot is anyone's guess but looks like it be workin for you. Not sure if this is cropped but I remember not too long ago you would have only gotten mud w/any ext on a zoom.
I'll finally be getting some down time the next three weeks to try the new ext. and the 80-400. Good catch/shot.
Gerard
Thx, Gerard. Yup, that one was cropped a bunch. The TC-14E II was fairly awful on the 80-400G...just HAD to
see how the new III would fare. Here's one that wasn't cropped (I already took the 15 yd penalty for the clip)
So far, I'm seeing that stopping down a tad to f9 looks a little better...if ya have the light. Will play more shortly.
trenchmonkey wrote:
Thx, Gerard. Yup, that one was cropped a bunch. The TC-14E II was fairly awful on the 80-400G...just HAD to
see how the new III would fare. Here's one that wasn't cropped (I already took the 15 yd penalty for the clip)
So far, I'm seeing that stopping down a tad to f9 looks a little better...if ya have the light. Will play more shortly.
I doubt I'll use it on my 80-400 but its good to see how it would work in a pinch. Just got mine in today, next week it'll be used for some four legged hairy creatures.
Oh, it was the personal fowl variety...
Got this just a few minutes ago, hardly "in a pinch"
IQ for a wide open/handheld Jpeg SOOC Just sayin'...
this combo COULD be the new poor man's 600.
Has anyone done some direct comparisons between the 14TCII and new version. It would be nice to see some comparisons of IQ and sharpness using a prime lens with both convertors shot wide open.
I did that comparison this AM, the Nikon 600mm F4 VR with my TC14E II and the new III version using my D7100. At this point I'm not overjoyed with the results. I'm trying like heck to see an improvement but so far I can see absolutely no difference in the results looking at 100%-200% views on the computer screen. I've done the tests at apertures F4-11, shot with a solid tripod and a Wimberly head. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my results are poor, they're actually pretty good but not better with the new III. I haven't tried it yet using the D800 but will, hopefully tomorrow. As a side note the color balance does come out slightly truer with the III.
Has anyone done some direct comparisons between the 14TCII and new version. It would be nice to see some comparisons of IQ and sharpness using a prime lens with both convertors shot wide open.
decoop wrote:
I did that comparison this AM, the Nikon 600mm F4 VR with my TC14E II and the new III version using my D7100. At this point I'm not overjoyed with the results. I'm trying like heck to see an improvement but so far I can see absolutely no difference in the results looking at 100%-200% views on the computer screen. I've done the tests at apertures F4-11, shot with a solid tripod and a Wimberly head. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my results are poor, they're actually pretty good but not better with the new III. I haven't tried it yet using the D800 but will, hopefully tomorrow. As a side note the color balance does come out slightly truer with the III. ...Show more →
I would review your AF Fine tune values again, with each TC, before I re-ran the test.
before installing a new skylight in da guest bathroom. 
Just sayin'...
