Amusing statements
Aug. 20th, 2008 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crisavecI was debating renting a longer lens for the Road Lottery, and was looking though lensrentals.com since rentglass.com appears to be perpetually out of stock of EVERYTHING Nikon.
I was thinking about getting a 70-200mm f/2.8 and a TC-14E II teleconverter to go with it(takes it out to 280mm and F/4 or so) and on the bottom of the page for the TC-14E II I read the following comment by the company.
Please folks: If the lens you want to use this with isn’t listed above, don’t order it. It doesn’t work with the 80-400. It has never worked with the 80-400. Its not going to work with the 80-400 when you try it. Nor (I swear its happened) will it work well with a 12-24.
I started laughing at this. I can see someone really hoping it might work on the 80-400, but why on EARTH would you try and use a teleconverter on a 14-24? The thing is a specialty lens and I can't imagine ANYONE that has just a 14-24 and nothing else that could cover the 24-40mm range you'd get. There are probably a half a dozen lenses that cover this range, and most of them are less expensive than the TC-14 is.
I was thinking about getting a 70-200mm f/2.8 and a TC-14E II teleconverter to go with it(takes it out to 280mm and F/4 or so) and on the bottom of the page for the TC-14E II I read the following comment by the company.
Please folks: If the lens you want to use this with isn’t listed above, don’t order it. It doesn’t work with the 80-400. It has never worked with the 80-400. Its not going to work with the 80-400 when you try it. Nor (I swear its happened) will it work well with a 12-24.
I started laughing at this. I can see someone really hoping it might work on the 80-400, but why on EARTH would you try and use a teleconverter on a 14-24? The thing is a specialty lens and I can't imagine ANYONE that has just a 14-24 and nothing else that could cover the 24-40mm range you'd get. There are probably a half a dozen lenses that cover this range, and most of them are less expensive than the TC-14 is.
