Re: [APML] Teleconverter advice

[Dick Locke <rlocke1@houston.rr.com>]

Both my 300/2.8 and tc-301 are on the way, so I can't speak from 1st hand 
experience...

I think your combination should work pretty well, though there are warnings 
about vignetting under various conditions that I don't fully understand.


Did you get any other replies?
-Dick


Alson Wong wrote:

> I'm going to be traveling to Mexico this June for the annular eclipse 
> and to Australia in November for the total eclipse, and instead of 
> bringing my Vixen 102-ED and GP mount I'd like to bring a more compact 
> setup.  I have a Nikon 300/4 ED lens which is quite good and a Sigma 
> 400/5.6 that I haven't been too impressed with.  I'm thinking about 
> getting a TC-301 to use with the Nikon lens to get me to 600/8 for 
> closeup eclipse shots.  I don't plan to do night sky work with it, but 
> I'm wondering how well it would work for eclipse and daytime shots at 
> f/8 or maybe stopped down to f/11.
> --
> Alson Wong
> Riverside Astronomical Society
>   http://www.rivastro.org/
> Visit my Web page at <http://home.earthlink.net/~alsonwong/index.htm>
> 



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