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Originally Posted by LewisCouch
Great shots of an amazing bird. We've got a few of them around here, however, I can never get as close to them as I'd like. Are you happy with the 2.0 extender you're using? I'm using the 1.4 and I'm not entirely pleased with the focus.
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Up until yesterday, I wasn't that happy with the extender and focus sharpness. I even took a few pictures without the extender figuring I could crop and enlarge in photoshop and get something better than I could get with the extender.
However, I printed 8.5x11 images that are pretty close to the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 12th images posted here. These are crops of about 1/4 of the original image area. The birds in the printed images look razor sharp to me.
I think the key is to stop down the aperture, since yesterday I made it a point to shoot in the F8-F9 range even though it meant shooting at iso 200-400 to keep the shutter speed in the 1/600-1/1000 second range. Previously I was shooting closer to F5.6 to keet the shutter speed up.
What I have read is that the 1.4x extender is better rated than the 2x extender.