thanks Paul. it's good to know it doesn't cause too much of an image degradation....
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:41 AM Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > I use the Pentax DA 1.4 AW TC with the the 55-300 and it's a fine > combination. > > -p > > > On 8/15/2018 10:02 PM, Subash Jeyan 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 > > > > -- > Paul Sorenson > Studio1941 > > Sooner or later "different" scares people. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
