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A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED
F 4-5.6 lens. I'm very happy with the camera and lens. Although I read mixed reviews about the Nikkor lens I purchased, I have to say overall the 55 to 200 mm lens takes excellent pictures overall for a $200 lens.I would prefer however, a greater ability to be able to take photographs of birds and wildlife at a distance. Unfortunately, I don't have $4,000 to blow on the lens at this point in time. My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable for me. Any suggestions would be great. TIA |
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In article J2w9j.3908$L91.2832@trndny05, someguy469
wrote: A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED F 4-5.6 lens. I'm very happy with the camera and lens. Although I read mixed reviews about the Nikkor lens I purchased, I have to say overall the 55 to 200 mm lens takes excellent pictures overall for a $200 lens.I would prefer however, a greater ability to be able to take photographs of birds and wildlife at a distance. Unfortunately, I don't have $4,000 to blow on the lens at this point in time. My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable for me. Any suggestions would be great. TIA not really. a 1.4x converter will turn the 55-200 into a 77-280 f/5.6-f/8 lens, and that's past the limit of what the autofocus officially supports. however, in good light it will still focus most of the time. it won't be particularly ideal for birding, however. there's also a loss in quality with the converter. a better choice is the stabilized 70-300vr which is about $450 these days and an excellent lens, or a non-stabilized version for around $100-$150 from nikon and third party vendors (and nowhere near as good). stabilization at the longer end is *very* useful. however, depending on how far away from the birds you are, even longer lenses might be needed. tokina makes a relatively inexpensive 80-400, and lenses longer than that, the price starts climbing dramatically. |
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:52:25 GMT, someguy469 wrote:
A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED F 4-5.6 lens. I'm very happy with the camera and lens. Although I read mixed reviews about the Nikkor lens I purchased, I have to say overall the 55 to 200 mm lens takes excellent pictures overall for a $200 lens.I would prefer however, a greater ability to be able to take photographs of birds and wildlife at a distance. Unfortunately, I don't have $4,000 to blow on the lens at this point in time. My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable for me. Any suggestions would be great. TIA I don't think that will work very well. For starters, you'll lose autofocus (your f/5.6 lens will become f/8 if you mount a 1.4x converter). If your budget is $400, I'd think about trying to stretch a bit and get the $470 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 VR lens. That will get you roughly the same focal length as your 55-200 + 1.4x, and you'll get something that will actually work without massive amounts of fiddling. You could probably either sell the 55-200 or buy a used 70-300, and that would likely get the net price down below $400. -dms |
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someguy469 wrote:
A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED F 4-5.6 lens. [...] My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable I wish it were that easy myself. Keep in mind that tele converters do impact the picture quality. Good ones less than bad ones, but even good ones do. But more important Nikon states that teleconverters should not be used with lenses that are slower than F4 because it effects the autofocus. On the other hand many people report that AF still works, even with a slow lens. I guess it's really a matter of how well lit your scenerie is, but at least be prepared to fall back to manual focus. I bought a 70-300f/4.5-5.6G VR instead. It is still reasonably priced at e.g. 470$ at B&H and I am very happy with it. Unfortunately anything longer or faster is becoming very expensive very fast. jue |
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:51 GMT, Daniel Silevitch wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:52:25 GMT, someguy469 wrote: A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED F 4-5.6 lens. I'm very happy with the camera and lens. Although I read mixed reviews about the Nikkor lens I purchased, I have to say overall the 55 to 200 mm lens takes excellent pictures overall for a $200 lens.I would prefer however, a greater ability to be able to take photographs of birds and wildlife at a distance. Unfortunately, I don't have $4,000 to blow on the lens at this point in time. My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable for me. Any suggestions would be great. TIA I don't think that will work very well. For starters, you'll lose autofocus (your f/5.6 lens will become f/8 if you mount a 1.4x converter). If your budget is $400, I'd think about trying to stretch a bit and get the $470 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 VR lens. That will get you roughly the same focal length as your 55-200 + 1.4x, and you'll get something that will actually work without massive amounts of fiddling. You could probably either sell the 55-200 or buy a used 70-300, and that would likely get the net price down below $400. -dms Whereas you could get an excellent 36mm-736mm f/2.7 to f/3.5 IS lens by buying any one of the 12X Canon P&S cameras and putting nice $90 Sony 1.7x tele-converter on it. The Sony tele-converter works better than Canon's. All for the price of just that one lens. I don't expect you to do that, because ... well ... there's just no reasoning with the completely blind and totally insane. |
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On Dec 17, 9:52 am, "someguy469" wrote:
A recently purchased an Nikon D40 camera Kit at a Nikkor 55 to 200 mm AF-SED F 4-5.6 lens. I'm very happy with the camera and lens. Although I read mixed reviews about the Nikkor lens I purchased, I have to say overall the 55 to 200 mm lens takes excellent pictures overall for a $200 lens.I would prefer however, a greater ability to be able to take photographs of birds and wildlife at a distance. Unfortunately, I don't have $4,000 to blow on the lens at this point in time. My question is would he be reasonable to get a 1.4x Tele converter lens for the Nikkor 200 mm lens? I've seen Nikon Tele converter lenses for $3-$400 and this is much more affordable for me. Any suggestions would be great. TIA Try to find a 500mm f5.6 lens, $3-400 maybe a little low for such a lens, but you maybe able to find one that is not AF, learning to focus is not such a bad thing. The teleconverter is not a good idea on such a slow lens as your 55 to 200, remember it is f5.6 at 200mm. Another "cheap" birding outfit folks use with Nikon is the 300 f4 with the 1.4 teleconverter. f4 (f5.6 with the converter) is about the highest f stop you can use while retaining autofocus. Mjor birders use 600mm + lenses, well out of most folks range price wise, have to be obcessed with birds to get that one. Good luck Tom |
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