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70-200+TC 400mm f:11 DSC_4568 top
Photos (NOT handheld shots) for comparison of the Nikkor 80-400 VR to the 70-200VR with and without the TC-20EII teleconverter. I have uploaded original full size photos for various focal lengths and apertures of each lens, along with two different crops of each photo.
All photos are unedited other than cropping.
The lens, focal length, and aperture data for each photo are given in the filenames.
All photos were taken with a Nikon D200 sitting on a stable piano bench approximately 8 feet from the feather, which was taped to a wall and sticking out horizontally into the air at about the same level as the camera, and roughly perpendicular to the camera's line of sight.
Auto focus was used to focus on the middle of the narrow blue stripe just to the left (in these photos) of the dark eye.
ISO was 100.
VR was off.
Mirror lockup and the default mirror lockup timed shutter release were used to prevent camera shake.
Illumination was from an SB800 flash mounted on the camera in TTL mode.
Spot metering was used.
70-200+TC 400mm f:11 DSC_4568 top
Photos (NOT handheld shots) for comparison of the Nikkor 80-400 VR to the 70-200VR with and without the TC-20EII teleconverter. I have uploaded original full size photos for various focal lengths and apertures of each lens, along with two different crops of each photo.
All photos are unedited other than cropping.
The lens, focal length, and aperture data for each photo are given in the filenames.
All photos were taken with a Nikon D200 sitting on a stable piano bench approximately 8 feet from the feather, which was taped to a wall and sticking out horizontally into the air at about the same level as the camera, and roughly perpendicular to the camera's line of sight.
Auto focus was used to focus on the middle of the narrow blue stripe just to the left (in these photos) of the dark eye.
ISO was 100.
VR was off.
Mirror lockup and the default mirror lockup timed shutter release were used to prevent camera shake.
Illumination was from an SB800 flash mounted on the camera in TTL mode.
Spot metering was used.