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I am still not sure went into Young’s Camera’s and asked about converter for my Nikon D300 300mm lens, the young lady told me to forget it as the quality with a converter is awful, problem I have is that the Sigma 400mm lens is just too heavy for hand held, of course OK with tripod I was thinking 2x converter, I am going to use for Motor Sport

Anybody any thoughts on this am I wasting my time? Is quality real poor? I would really appreciate some help
 
Hi Kriss
This may not help but I have the D300 and the 1.7 converter which I use on the
70-200,2.8.
If interested I've just posted som shots with this setup on birds forum if you want to take a look. It's under Ducks, ducks, ducks.
 
Joe T said:
I really wouldnt use a converter on that lens. You will probably lose both AF and metering, and the image quality will be poor.

Also I think the Nikon TCs wont even mount to that lens. A Kenko one might though.
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I agree 100%.
 
Joe T said:
I really wouldnt use a converter on that lens. You will probably lose both AF and metering, and the image quality will be poor.

Also I think the Nikon TCs wont even mount to that lens. A Kenko one might though.
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yeah i agree

i tried a sigma 1.4x on my old 70-300, seemed ok indoors so i went and bought one, once i had one it was really poor, very very slow and hard to focus on something

i sold it, then the lens and went for a sigma 100-300, once i had that i found i wanted a converter again and its not been a problem since getting another

my advice would be to save for a faster lens (even in the 300mm range) that would can add a converter onto and not loose image quality
 
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