I am off to the rowing on Saturday.
Lake Barrington is a spectacular place, but it is big.
Time to use my much neglected 1.4x Teleconverter. I bought this when I up-geared a few years ago along with the EM1x, 8-18 and 300mm. These were the sentence finishers, the bits that quietened the nagging voice, but I must admit, the tc was the last thing on the list.
Every bit of that kit has been used regularly, with the exception of the teleconverter (tc).
To be honest, it is probably more use to me on the 40-150 f2.8 giving me roughly a 100-400 f4 full frame equivalent, but I use it sparingly, not as sure of the AF or optical qualities. The AF thing is down to me, using gear with original firmware mixed with latest and greatest, but it has worked for me and been stable, with the exception of the tc.
This is also possibly due to neglect. Olympus contacts tend to go quiet if left alone or sometimes even when brand new. Regular use makes for good conversations between devices, absence, not so much.
Below are a set of hand held, 860mm equivalent shots with shutter speeds ranging from 1/4000th to 1/60th of a second. No processing apart from some colour and a little highlight recovery and no focus misses!
The AF was a little odd at first, but I do think that is twitchy contacts, because it came right after a quick dismount-remount. The thing is already 6-7 years old and I have used it probably five times.
Adding to my previous post comparing the IRIX 150 macro to the 9mm Leica, the Oly “super macro” is a powerful beast bringing 860mm equivalent focal length to 1.4m range.
With sharpness intact, I know that this lens will happily get me down to about 2000mm equivalent after cropping (which is roughly above). I just hope the air is clear.
Ed. Some samples of the actual event.
The top two are actually the 40-150 f4, showing its stuff as a serviceable 5-800mm (ff equiv), the rest are the 300mm straight, which I ended up using most of the time anyway, except the very bottom pair with the converter. In the second set down, the woman in front is slightly out of focus as I focussed on the background. I have no hesitation submitting any of these crops as full sized images for social media or even decent size prints.
