On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 23:28:05 -0400 Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> All of my recent bird pics were shot with the D FA 150-450 zoom and > DA 1.4X converter. Great combination. thank you Paul that's reassuring. > > On Aug 15, 2018, at 11:02 PM, Subash Jeyan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > i'm going on a winter trek to the himalayas in november. planning > > to do some birding also along the way and since the sigma 150-500, > > at almost 2kg, is too heavy for that i was looking at alternatives. > > > > i have a tamron 1.4x pz-af (af works with sdm too) and i was > > wondering if i could use that with the da 55-300. i did some > > googling and the results surprised me. it looks, in spite of all > > the conventional wisdom that TCs can only be used with a sharp > > prime lens, people have got good results. see the (old) thread here: > > https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3680410 > > > > have any of you used 55-300, or any other zoom, with a tc? if so > > i'll be interested in how that went... > > > > thanks, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
