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- From: mikec@spider.co.uk (Mike Coren)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: EOS Teleconverter Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.183803.13096@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:38:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.164915.23501@kth.se>
- Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <1993Jan25.164915.23501@kth.se> d90-nsc@nada.kth.se (Niclas Schopenhauer) writes:
- >
- >I am interested in getting a teleconverter for my 100-300 USM lens.
- >However, since the Canon "white" teleconverters only work with the
- >white lenses, I would like to know what other manufacturers make
- >teleconverters for the EOS lenses.
- >
- >Any info regarding manufacturer, price and optical quality would be
- >welcome.
- >
- >
-
- This isn't any of the info you asked for, just a warning: Most AF systems
- die when the lens' maximum aperture is f/5.6 or slower. It's not that
- they don't work well, they just refuse to work, period. Perhaps it's because
- there's too much depth-of-field to do a good nonlinear search? Anyway,
- your 100-300 USM is already at f/4 at the low end and f/5.6 at the high
- end, so a teleconverter will probably push it over the limit.
-
- >
- >BTW, I recently got a superb night shot of a traffic airliner passing
- >EXACTLY in front of the moon. Those opportunities don't come often!!
- >
- >So you can guess how disappointed I was when I got the photos from
- >the lab and discovered that the picture was very overexposed.
- >I used 200 film, aperture 5,6 and 1/180 sec and a focal length of
- >300mm. The sky was very clear that night.
- >
- >Does anyone have a clue as to what exposure values I should have
- >used?
- >
-
- The moon is, after all, just another object lit up by the same sunlight we
- get on the ground (a full moon is only 1/4 of 1% further away from the sun
- than the earth, so the light loss isn't significant). Use the "sunny-16" rule
- to get a good picture of the moon. That's an aperture of f/16, and a shutter
- speed of close to 1/film speed. I used this formula during the lunar eclipse
- in December, and had good exposures almost up to totality.
-
- >I really wish my Elan had a spotmeter. (sigh)
-
- The "partial" metering will look at the central 6.5% of the viewfinder
- only. This is close to a spot meter. The vewfinder should have a
- circle in it where this is (my 100 does). With the 100-300 at the high
- end of the range, a full moon should fill it.
-
- Mike
-
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- Michael D. Coren, Electrical Engineer mikec@spider.co.uk
- Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown, Maryland, USA.
- Temporarily at Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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