topic Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens in EF & RF Lenses

2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

exploringusa48 — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:09:27 GMT

The 2.2x Professional Telephoto lens by Vivitar came in a kit with my Canon Rebel T5i. I put the lens on then placed my EFS 55-250 on MF.

Do I need to put the camera on a special setting to use the 2.2x telephoto lens? When I try to take a picture it blurry. My pictures are of birds.

Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

cicopo — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:44:08 GMT

You have to focus the lens manually. It's not easy to do using the viewfinder but you may be able to do it reasonably well using live view.

Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

hsbn — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:46:25 GMT

If you turn your lens to MF, then you have to focus it manually. Otherwise you'll get blurry out of focus photo.

Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

exploringusa48 — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:34:43 GMT

I don't think I'm ready to manualy focus the camera yet. I have so much to learn about my new camera. Thanks you for your time. 🙂

Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

hsbn — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:06:52 GMT

Then why you switch it to MF anyway. It works like filter, so it should work in auto focus mode. But I don't think you should use it because the quality of the filter is questionable.

Re: 2.2x Professional Telephoto Lens

cicopo — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:08:48 GMT

That camera won't be able to auto focus using that TC & lens. It can't AF at smaller apertures than f5.6