Teleconverter with Nikon 80-200 ED

[ujwal]

Is it possible to use a Teleconverter on Nikon 80-200 F/2.8 ED-N ?

 

I heard that Nikon does not make TC for this gr8 lens. Does any third

party TC work with it ? Kenko or Tamron? is it the design which does

not allow the addition of TCs ?

 

I hope to be totally clear in this matter. (Different version of the

lens make it confusing.)

 

Thanl you.

[yoni_perlmutter]

TC-14B works very well with this lens. You lose 1 stop of light, you lose

AF function. At f5.6 - 8 you get quite good, contrasty pics. This is the one

with which I have experience.

 

Some have had good luck with Kenko or other 3rd party TCs. Some of

them allow you to AF the AF lens. But I have no experience with these.

 

Perhaps someone else can jump in here.

[Michael R Freeman]

The Kenko Pro 300 or Tamron SP converters work well with this lens and retain all autofocus functions and exposure modes. As already noted, the manual focus TC-14B also works very well, but you lose autofocus and S and P exposure modes.

 

For some reason Nikon never saw fit to manufacture an autofocus teleconverter for the AF-D lenses, and abandoned that market completely to the independents. Even though almost every lens in the current Nikon lineup that will work well with a TC is an AF-S lens (that accepts the E converters) the 80~200/2.8D (along with the 180/2.8D) remains in production to point out to all the gaping hole in the teleconverter range that existed before the AF-I and AF-S era. Nikon could have easily added the mechanical drive to the E converters to drive AF-D lenses but instead chose not to, and in fact added an additional lug to the bayonet to prevent them from being mounted on all but a select few AF-S lenses.

[focus mankind]

Visit nikonians.org forum - nikon lenses - there you'll find a wonderfull chart with all possible lens-types and teleconverter (nikon and non-nikon too.

[focus mankind]

as mentioned forum is nikon lenses - the thread is pinned at the very top.

[ujwal]

Thank you Michael and Yoni.... my confusions are cleared up. I am going to get this gem ....amazingly selling for 800 bucks for new!