From: "Peter Loveday"
Ken Waller and his 600mm is always gonna beat you and your 300mm w/TC.
> Thanks for the confidence Bob, but equipment will only take you so far...
> ;+}
Indeed. It's not about the equipment. A *great* photographer can make a
10mm fisheye look like a 600mm tele :)
But, when would he do that?
One of the characteristic skills that make a photographer *great* is
knowing & using the most suitable lens for the situation. Or conversely,
creating photos that make the best use of the available lens.
I make no claim to greatness, although I have aspirations, but if I'm
using a 10mm fish-eye, I don't want photos that look like they were
taken with a 600mm tele.
The long tele-photo prime without tele-converter is always going to
trump the medium tele-photo prime with tele-converter. And both of them
will give sharper images without the TC than a long zoom with the TC will.
All other things being equal, my 300mm with a 2x tele-converter will not
give me as sharp an image as I could get with the 600mm. Without the
tele-converter my 300 is just as sharp as the 600, but doesn't get in as
close.
And the 600 with a tele-converter would suffer just as much loss of
sharpness as the 300 does. But it would still get in a hell of a lot closer.
I have the 300. I don't have the 600.
To me, the path to greatness is to make the best images I can make with
the 300 I have and not worry about what the 600 can do for me until the
day ever comes that I can afford to buy one & hire the necessary Sherpa
to carry it around for me.
The same applies to making photographs using a tele-converter. You make
the best image you can given the characteristic limits imposed by the
equipment. And accept that sometimes the limits imposed by the equipment
are going to keep you from getting the image you really want.
I apologize for the rant. I *did* see the smiley.
Don't even know why.
While I've been in school, I've hardly had occasion to use the 300 other
than for baseball last summer, and for that the 300 was almost too long
... got more utility from my 80-200.
Most everything I've done in school this year has been at 70mm or shorter.
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