Nikon TC-14E III AF-S Teleconverter for Camera

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Using a teleconverter does not require any specific knowledge. If the coupling is successful, your camera should recognize the lens and behave similarly as when a regular lens is used. You will notice a decrease in maximum aperture, as well as the angle of view. Most cameras should automatically recognize the attached teleconverter and apply multiplication to the focal length automatically, so the metadata should be reflected accurately in EXIF data. Teleconverter Lens Compatibility Key missing understanding was alluded to in some comments, but really needs to be taken to the next level. I’ll point to a couple of key articles that helped me, from Roger Cicala: “This lens is soft” and other myths ( wordpress.lensrentals.com/blog/…her-myths/) “This Lens is Soft” and Other Facts ( wordpress.lensrentals.com/blog/…her-facts/)

Above: Nikon Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S + TC-2.0x coverage on Nikon Z7 (FF/FX) body at 140mm (left) and 400mm (right) Your teleconverter must include a U. S. A. warranty card like the one shown above from Nikon, Inc. The U. S. A. office is Nikon, Inc.; the Japanese headquarters is Nikon Corporation. The card should be inside your box. The serial number on the card must match the serial number on the bottom of your teleconverter: It is dust and splash-proof, and designed for higher durability. SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 GD OS HSM |Sports and other telephoto lenses are able to meet the demands that professional photographers would require in severe shooting conditions, such as in the rain. Autofocus, at least with my Z7II and Z 400mm f/4.5, is the same with or without this converter. I don't see any degradation in AF performance. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, holds a Foundation Degree in Equitation Science and is a Master of Arts in Publishing. He is member of Nikon NPS and has been a Nikon user since the film days using a Nikon F5 and saw the digital transition with Nikon's D series cameras and is still to this day the youngest member to be elected in to BEWA, The British Equestrian Writers' Association.Keep this in mind when purchasing a teleconverter, as you might need to calibrate it with the lenses you are planning to use it with. Reduced Autofocus Performance First, attach the APO Tele Converter EX to the master lens. Then, attach the lens and the Tele Converter to the camera body. If you attach the Tele Converter to the camera body first it may cause a malfunction. The 80-200mm f/2.8D ED AF supports the TC-201 and the TC-14A (occasional vignetting) & TC-14B (AF not possible). Nikon's Z system has always had pretty poor autofocus performance compared to Canon mirrorless and Sony. While autofocus performance isn't that great with this converter and my Z 400mm f/4.5, it isn't that great without the converter either. It's a mild 1.4× teleconverter so it doesn't have any difference in practical image quality or autofocus speed, but on the other hand it doesn't give much more reach, either.

Hi Nasim, thanks again for a great piece of work. Some time ago I have read the sharness comparison article with great interest and after reading it, I decided to use only the TC-14EII. And I have to say I am quite impressed with the results I can get with the TC-14E II considering it is not the latest edition. I have got the 500f4 G and the 300f4 PF and I use both of them with this TC. In fact I have two, because I don’t have so much opportunity for shooting and it happened quite often to me that while sitting somewhere with the 500f4 G + TC on the tripod, other creatures started creaping and hopping around me that I used to miss out in the past. So, depending on the situation I have a second body on my laps witth the 300f4 PF plus or without the second TC, which gives me the 700f5.6 plus a handholdable 300f4 or 420f5.6 and it works fine. Once again, the teleconverters are adding about 0.5 pixels of chromatic aberration to our lab measurements, with the 2.0x TC looking a bit worse than the 1.4x TC. Vignetting I get perfectly sharp shots almost all the time at 1/30 with VR, but need 1/2,000 to get the same results without VR. It is dust and splash-proof and designed for higher durability. SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports and other telephoto lenses are able to meet the demands that professional photographers would require in severe shooting conditions, such as in the rain. Diameter x length (extension from lens mount)- Approx. 72 mm/2.9 in. (maximum diameter) x 18.5 mm/0.8 in. (distance from camera lens mount flange); overall length 37 mm/1.5 in.In short, teleconverters are not tools you should attach to your lens on a whim. Although I found the Nikon Z TCs to be good performers, they are not immune from any of these issues. But as I’ll show later in this review, the Nikon Z 1.4x and 2.0x TCs still beat the alternative of cropping a photo extensively. Compatibility

For example, the Nikon 300mm f/4E PF ED has an impressive minimum focus distance of 1.4 meters. The 1.7x teleconverter would extend its reach significantly all the way to 510mm. At such close focusing distance, the lens will have its reproduction ratio increased by the same multiplication factor of the teleconverter lens, so it will go from 0.24x to 0.41x with the 1.7x teleconverter. A nice option for occasional macro work for sure! NIKON D800E + 500mm f/4 VR @ 1000mm (2x TC), ISO 200, 1/250, f/13.0 I measured the sharpness of the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL VR, with and without teleconverters using Imatest, to see how its sharpness is affected. The three teleconverters used were the Nikon TC-14E III, TC-17E II, and the TC-20E III. The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL VR was set to 70mm at f/5.6, its sharpest focal length and aperture. With the three teleconverters, the focal length change was roughly equivalent to 100mm (1.4x), 120mm (1.7x) and 140mm (2.0x). Below are the results that I was able to obtain:One of my biggest frustrations with the Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 Sport lens, was the fact that it will not take any of the Nikon teleconverters – they simply will not physically mount. I am not sure if there is a technical reason for not allowing that, but given that teleconverters are mostly “pass-through” lenses for magnification purposes, I initially did not think that I would be faced with any cross-brand compatibility issues.

Thank you for what is, by a long way, the most comprehensive and informative article I’ve seen on teleconverters. However, I think it could be even better with more reference to sensor pixel densities. I see that many of the shots illustrating the article were taken on 12 MPx cameras. Because teleconverter compatibility is dependent upon lens use, the lenses that will work with a teleconverter are all FX lenses (those that are designed for use with the larger FX format image sensor or film SLR cameras. This being said, with the introduction of mirrorless cameras came a new wave of teleconverters supporting new lines of mirrorless camera lenses. On the whole manufacturers utilise newer optical technology together with practicalities such as weather sealing (rubber gaskets for example) for mirrorless TC options. Newer optical technology allows for sharper and crisper images from more complex optical designs. Canon has categorically stated that their RF Extenders deliver slightly better image quality than preceding EF models. Photographers will even find medium format teleconverters for Fujifilm G Mount lenses which are designed to capture over 100 megapixels of data. The quality of their teleconverter delivers uniformly excellent results.I have Nikon D500 & D7200 bodies and Nikkor 70-200 E FL VR, 200-500 F5.6E and 300mm F2.8 G ED VRII lenses, plus others.