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Thread: Canon 1.4x III teleconverter with 400mm f5.6 L

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    Default Canon 1.4x III teleconverter with 400mm f5.6 L

    Tested Canon 1.4x III teleconverter with 400mm f5.6 L. works well, no auto focus, image quality is satisfactory.
    Should be good for someone who is comfortable with manual focus.
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    Nice test Atul, and thanks for sharing. I have a question about manual focussing. Do you use a split screen focussing screen or just the original one?

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    Hey Keerthy, I do not use split screen focusing. Generally prefer to use LCD with 10x to fine tune the manual focus. That can be done only is you use a tripod and you get time with the subject.

    Otherwise, try to get the best using the viewfinder. Good light definitely helps here. For the above image I used the viewfinder to manually focus, as Ashy Prinia keeps moving around pretty quickly.

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    I agree. Auto focus can only be done at f8 with a 1 series body (excluding 1D X) at the centre point AF. However, better to try manual focusing when required. While photographing handheld we move a lot. If you are manual focusing while shooting handheld then it will impact.

    According to Canon, the 1.4xIII and the 2xIII Tcs are basically meant for the new telephoto lenses. With the previous generation lenses, it doesn't give any advantage over the version II Tcs.

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    I have experimented on this subject by taping over three of the contacts on the teleconverter so the DSLR doesn’t know you’re using a teleconverter.

    I have tried this on two combinations. The 40D with the 100-400 and a 1.4X TC and the other combo was a 400D with the 150-500 APO and a 2X TC.

    Both had worked quite well on the very few occassions i had tried them on the field, but blogs and even the Canon site says this may be an unreliable workaround and can behave erratically.

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    Hey Ranjan, tapping the pins has worked well for me as well.

    I was able to get single point AF and 560mm at f5.6.

    Auto focus is not consistent and quite slow when compared without extender. Auto focus here would require manual fine tuning on most occasions.

    Sharing an image of Black Kite in flight using auto-focus with 1.4x III extender (tapped pins) and 400mm f5.6L

    Canon 7D. 400mm f5.6 with 1.4x III extender (tapped pins)
    Manual Exposure
    Auto Focus
    Manual metering
    Shutter Speed 1/1000
    Aperture 5.6
    ISO 640
    Focal Length 560mm
    Full Frame
    Handheld
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    There are also Teleconverters like Kenko which are non-reporting. So your camera believes that it is still a f5.6 lens and does the auto-focus. You of course need to manually reduce the exposure taking into account the TC.

    With the kind of resolutions the cameras have these days and the amount of cropping done to the images, if the focus is not spot on, then the image looks soft. So I would prefer manual focus in most of the cases rather than taping the pins etc. However, during handheld autofocus is always welcome with slight finetuning the focus manually by hand.

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