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EOS RP pics taken with RF Extender 2.0 come out blurry

Tims32ford
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In trying to take photos of a bald eagle in the top of a pine tree…about 100 yds away, every single image was out of focus.  Absolutely nothing is in focus…the eagle, NONE of the pine branches/needles.  I’m using a Canon RP with the RF 100-400 coupled to my just acquired refurbished (by Canon…purchased direct from Canon) RF Extender 2.0.  I removed the Extender and shot the same eagle/same location with probably just a 1 minute delay to remove and cap the extender.  Using just the RF 100-400…every image is SHARP…can be blown up to see just the eagle’s head…image is still SHARP. The RF body recognizes the lens and the extender.

Yes, AF switch is on.

Is there a chance the refurbished extender is faulty?

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Can you post the two original images to One Drive or Dropbox so we can examine them? 
Based on what you just posted it sounds like you are enlarging the image too much. I don’t know about the RF 2X extender, but the EF 2X extender image quality isn’t great; additional “enlargement “ by cropping really degrades the image. 

John Hoffman
Conway, NH

1D X Mark III, M200, Many lenses, Pixma PRO-100, Pixma TR8620a, Lr Classic

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p4pictures
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There are a couple of key points here.

  1. The lens manual mentions that you should attach the extender to the lens first, then put the lens + extender combination on the camera.
  2. The size of the active focus area - where you can position the AF point, or where the camera can focus is reduced when an extender is used. Often you will see a smaller rectangular or square frame in the centre of the LCD/EVF to show this usable area. 
  3. The lens will focus slower with an extender.
  4. Make sure you do not have Continuous AF enabled.
  5. Remember that the EOS RP cannot intelligently detect animals and birds. So you will need to use 1-point AF or AF point with expansion and position that on the bird's head to get the camera to focus on it.
  6. Adding an extender to any lens reduces the optical quality of the lens. A 2x more so than a 1.4x. 
  7. If you are still needing to crop in so that only 5MP remain, then you are looking at just 20% of the image area. 

 


Brian
EOS specialist trainer, photographer and author
-- Note: my spell checker is set for EN-GB, not EN-US --

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Tims32ford
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To everyone who replied with suggestions and ideas…a BIG THANK YOU!  Problem solved by just changing the AF to single spot AF…something that most of you know without thinking about it.

Thanks again!

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