70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor + tele convereter

[spothier]

I just got the 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor. I love it so far but can't find if you can

use a tele conveter with. The Nikon site doen't say one way or the other. Does anybody Know?

[ShunCheung]

Check out this thread in the Nature Forum:

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00JJzH

 

Your starting point is a 300mm/f5.6. Even with a 1.4x TC, it'll be f8 and AF is practically useless. You will have a hard time focusing the combo.

[Peter_in_PA]

Shun, as usual, is right. Even if it works, it will be unusable. No AF or bad AF and very fuzzy

images. Cropped photos, upsized to match res, will probably actually look better, even

printed.

[Dieter Schaefer]

IMHO there are three issues here. All the Nikon converters are made for longer primes and have a protruding lens element. If that fits inside the 70-300, then it should be usable. The more important issue is of image quality and I doubt anyone would be happy with a converter on any of the 70-300 telezooms out there (or almost any zoom for that matter; the 70-200 VR and the 200-400 VR as notable exceptions). Lastly, as Shun noted, loosing one stop puts the AF almost out of action (I use a 1.7E on a 300/4 and that is marginal at best as far as AF is concerned).