Tele-Convertor / Extender

[hobo]

Recently purchased a Canon 90-300USM lens, which is perfect 90% of time for what I want it for.

The problem is the other 10% it doesn't quite reach far enough.

Having looked on the Canon website, this lens is not compatible with thier 1.4 & 2 extenders, so I wondered whether anyone knew of any it would be compatible with.

Don't want to spend a fortune as won't be used that much.

[hobo]

Could pick the 1.4 up for approx. £200, but as said they are not compatible with the 90-300USM lens.

Need something that is, for around (or less hopefully) this money.

[hobo]

Just spoke to Jessops, they said that the Canon Extenders would actually work with this lens but I would lose the auto-focus feature (would still be able to focus manually).

Does this sound right ???

They said no other way around it (apart from new lens £silly).

Just spoke to anothers Jessops branch who said that they do thier own brand convertor X2 for £76 which would manual & auto focus.

Arse & Elbow springs to mind.

>> Edited by hobo on Thursday 8th April 10:16

[hobo]

Cheers for reply, suspect I shall be heading to Jessops shortly to give thier own-brand convertor a blast.

The objects I would be photgraphing would be at a fixed length so manual focus would be fine.

[hobo]

Will do.

Thanks.

[hobo]

Just had a look at the Kenko equipment.

Thier Pro300 teleconvertors are either, x3, x2 or x1.4

Can get x2 or x1.4 for approx £90 each.

Are these better than the Jessops own-brand models ? And would they fit onto the Canon EOS300 SLR ?

[hobo]

Thanks a lot for responses.

Have just come across the Kenko Extension Tube Set (3 Different lenses which can the matched to suit requirements).

This sound exactly what I want.

Problem now is I cannot seem to find anywhere in UK that sells them (doing search on YAHOO).

HELP !!!

[hobo]

Ending up buying a Kenko Pro300 x2 Teleconvertor.

Cheers for all advice.

[hobo]

Just taken delivery of Kenko Extender this morning and it all seems to be working just as I wanted.

Was a bit worried at first as I had it coupled with a 90-300 Lens & when I tried to auto-focus on an object within say 5 metres it couldn't do it. However, when target is above this distance away I autofocus's with no problem.

Thats for all assistance, as without it I could have ended up spending hundreds & not tens of pounds.

Cheers.