On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 06:25:56PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: > > Is the text on teleconverters here reasonable? Or, for that matter, > the rest of the article? > https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Travel_photography/Full_systems#Telephoto_lenses
Most of the article is reasonable (although there's nothing really said there that any experienced photographer wouldn't already know). But there is one 'suggestion' there that I find totally ridiculous; that one way to get a narrower field of view is to purchase a small-sensor body (with the same lens mount) to use alongside your full-frame body. Almost all the small-sensor bodies I know have no more pixels in total than the same area of the larger sensors in the full-frame body, so all you get by adding a different body is more weight to carry around; simply cropping the full-frame image to the area of interest will yield an image at least as good as the one you would get from a smaller sensor. I've almost always had TCs in my camera bag, but very rarely used them; probably the combination I used most often was a 1.4x converter and my old Pentax 300/2.8 (back in the days when I was shooting film). -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
