New camera gadget
Sunday May 24th, 2009 @ 7:16 pm by Angelika
I’ve finally been able to try out one of the new gadgets we’ve purchased. It’s a 1.5x teleconverter from Kenko that I attached to my lens to see if I can get better results in macro. I have to say that so far all the pictures I have taken with the attachment are of lesser quality than my images taken without it, which was to be expected and I have been forewarned. Maybe better lighting will give me better results once we have some real “springing” happening outside. For now I have these for you:
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So were these with or without the teleconverter?
These 3 are with Kenko.
I think you need extension tubes, not a teleconverter. Your resident geek is getting slack on the gadgets I think!
Not sure what the difference is actually and just thought we’d try something….
…and we’ve been trying quite a bit of many types of lens attachment garbage.
Teleconverter increases the focal length of the lens where as an extension tube increases the image size on the sensor…. or something like that!!
Well, the idea was that I wanted something that would get me far enough from a bee that it wouldn’t fly away when I was trying to take its picture and at the same time get a nice detail.
I think they both move the base of the lens further away from the sensor? But the Teleconverter has a glass element, and the Extension Tube does not? Yea, I think the Teleconverter is more general purpose and something that we would more likely use on other lenses.
Right, the image is bigger with the extension tube so you would have to step back as well. It doesn’t bring you closer.