08 JUNE 1999
Nikon TC-E2 Teleconverter - Photo Page 1
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Matt
Chroust
Okay, I have a new
camera, I have a honkin' big lens...
where else to go straightaway, but the San
Francisco Zoo?
We reached the Zoo at about 3 hours
before closing on a Sunday afternoon... more than enough time
to fill a few Clik! disks with animal
pictures. I would have to say about the best thing about the Clik!
drive is that I've stopped counting frames. I just shoot until
the memory card is full, then offload it and sort out the mess
indoors later, where I can actually see!
I hope to replace many of the photographs
here with better examples as they present themselves, but the
photos here should illustrate my main points in the interim. Everything
here has been resized to 300 pixels wide and otherwise unadulterated.
ELEPHANTS!
This image sequence shows what you might
expect from different 900/950 zoom ratios with and without the
teleconverter.
The elephants were probably 50 yards away. It seemed like half
a mile without the teleconverter.
I was very impressed with the quality of the Nikon lens. It's
really a pleasure to use - once you have it mounted to the camera.
It's just before feeding time, and the elephants are waiting
at the gate for their handler, just out of range of your ordinary
digicam. Fortunately, we have come prepared! |
ABOVE - Full Wide with no Teleconverter
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The first image is standard full
wide position on the integral 950 lens.
I think those might be animals... |
ABOVE - Full Zoom, still with no Teleconverter
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The second is full zoom on the built-in
lens.
Oh! They're elephants! |
ABOVE - Full Zoom with the Teleconverter installed. I also had
the UV filter which was not as clean as I would have liked. I
removed it in the tiger sequence.
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The third is teleconverter plus
full zoom.
A much more interesting picture! Can't you see the baby elephant's
impatience? |
 ABOVE
- Full Wide with the Teleconvertor installed. This is not a "normal"
mode because the 950 in LENS=TELE mode would prevent you from
zooming out this wide. You might get this effect if you went
to wide with a 900/910s, which do not have the LENS presets.
No big deal. I just included it here as an illustration.
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The fourth is teleconverter at full wide with no TELE lens
restriction. I cover this tunnel vision effect in the technical
section.
This is not a mode you would ordinarily want to use. |
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