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Mike Black · October 6th, 2002, 10:49 PM

Hi to you all,
I bought the sony 1.7x extender because the Century 2.0X was not available for my trip to Alaska in July.
After seing the videos with the extender I am not happy with the results. They seem to be soft and without contrast.
I notice this especially when shooting with back lighting, like birds in a tree where the sky is behind the subject.
I used to have a Canon D30 and did not have this problem especially when filling the frame with the subject, but with the VX2000 and the extender my pictures are definately not good even when filling zooming in on the subject.
Has anyone had experience with these lens?
mike

Frank Granovski · October 10th, 2002, 01:56 AM

Kenko makes good ones. They have 3 lines: low-end, middle-end and high-end. The high-end are very good, for the money. And they even come with filter threads so that you can screw on a lens hood (or filter).

October 6th, 2002, 10:49 PM	#1
Mike Black Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica Posts: 37	Sony 1.7X extender Hi to you all, I bought the sony 1.7x extender because the Century 2.0X was not available for my trip to Alaska in July. After seing the videos with the extender I am not happy with the results. They seem to be soft and without contrast. I notice this especially when shooting with back lighting, like birds in a tree where the sky is behind the subject. I used to have a Canon D30 and did not have this problem especially when filling the frame with the subject, but with the VX2000 and the extender my pictures are definately not good even when filling zooming in on the subject. Has anyone had experience with these lens? mike

October 10th, 2002, 01:56 AM	#2
Frank Granovski Outer Circle Join Date: May 2002 Location: Hope, BC Posts: 7,524	Kenko makes good ones. They have 3 lines: low-end, middle-end and high-end. The high-end are very good, for the money. And they even come with filter threads so that you can screw on a lens hood (or filter).