Canon EF 400mm F5.6 L with Canon Extender 2x II - 800mm F11 AF on 500D

[lmj4life]

looks like an army condom

[TJ213101]

AF doest work here!!!?? i thought i would be gone unless used on a 1D series??

[fizk]

Can you please make a video of the 400mm f5.6 without an extender?

[whitewingsrich]

I've recently found a nesting site of Peregrine Falcons in an old disused slate quarry. They are on the farside of the quarry (approx 300ft-350ft) away, up towards the top of the quarry face. I have a 7D Camera & 100-400 IS L series Lens. If i was to buy an extender. Would it have any effect on pics? Not as sharp? Slightly darker? As i have heard although they boost the focal distance they do have their drawbacks

[hikinguphigh]

Can you get good bokeh with this lens as i cant really aford the 2.8 version

[bobwang890]

I just got the 2x iii and used it with 100-400mm on rebel xs.

I tried to tape the 3 pins it will search but won't find anything.

Anyway it is ok for still shots of birds for now. Birds in flight is not easy with MF.

I am extremely happy with the IQ. It is hardly noticeable IQ reduction. I can get shots which I can never get before. Totally worth the 500 bucks.

Just need to burst new while fine tuning the focus. Still beat getting the actually 800mm for 12000 bucks. Getting a 1dsm3 next

[pn3r]

What is the distance from the tripod to this roofs?

Is the AF motor still this noisy without the extender?

Can you use all AF points or you have some limitation from the extender?

Thanks!

[ashleychinchunkit]

LOL WHO IS THIS JAMES GUY. FUCKING RETARD.

[alexeykamensk]

hand made cover?

[harizle]

rolling shutter anyone?

[papydasy]

try panning with out shake ,anybody got a solution to this problem,

[y0r00t]

The rolling shutter distortion on this camera is really anoying :)

[jamesLG1]

Why 500D?

YOU ALL FORGOT ABOUT THE CROP FACTOR!!

HELLO!!?!?!

[tamoodfull]

AF is pretty loud

[Calvinkoolz]

i think you forgot to turn stabilizer off

[MonsterSlayer14]

whats EF, and how do you work that?

[EdOscuro]

So this becomes the equivalent of ~1200mm!

Nice to see somebody else giving the 500D some love with good lenses - I've been using the 17mm TS-E on mine. (A bit rarer than the 400mm f/5.6 though).

The leaning effect from the video reminds me of Jacques Henri Lartigue's race car photograph. Could be used to good effect.

[johngoundry86]

Amazing DOf shame about how noisy it is.

[AlexAirDubai]

IF I'LL PUT 2X EXTENDER ON MY EF 100-400 mm IT WILL BE GOOD?? I THINK YES BECAUSE I'LL HAVE 400-800 IN ONE LENS.

ANSWER ME PLEASE.

[photomike24]

Does anyone know how to get the autofocus to work as we see in the video? I have the same set up as the video (assuming everything is Canon) and I can't get the tape trick to work with the 2x like I can with the 1.4x. Thanks

[bmccallumphotograpy]

@photomike24

Try updating your firmware if you haven't done so recently

[jameswongmalay]

@photomike24 hi..tell me how to tape it into the lens use ext 1.4 please

[photomike24]

Great video. How did you get the 2x Extender to auto focus with the 400mm f5.6? My 1.4x works with the taping of the three pins. My 2x attempts to auto focus when I tape the same three pins but seems one step away from focus when it stops? Do you or anyone have any tricks that might work? Are there different pins I should be taping than the 1.4x?

[bigredrobot26]

Its really 1280mm, take in the 1.6x crop factor. ; )

[quickshooter100]

f11 is just useless! lol

[BadBoyBillionaires]

400mm x by 2 equal to 800mm DUMB ASS! use your brain man!...not your ASS!

[jeremychuayx]

!! 800mm on a 500D??!

[myduis]

what's problem with it?? :)

[jeremychuayx]

:] 800's like probably one of the most expensive lenses out there while the 500D's prpbably one of the cheapest cameras by canon

[conoramoia]

its not about the body....id rather cheap body + expensive lenses instead of expensive body + cheap lens

[jeremychuayx]

@conoramoia :) Actually I use a 400D and love it.

[conoramoia]

@jeremychuayx i have one too :)

[Goobers200]

@conoramoia - until you want to print out your pictures on something larger than a post card.

[fullboxxskater]

@conoramoia what about the megapixels of the body? big difference?

[conoramoia]

@fullboxxskater well basically no but the more the merrier..its all about the sensor..if the sensor is small and has a lot of pixels its pointless, you gotta find a camera with a good image IQ and of course some quality lenses..hope this helped

[fullboxxskater]

@conoramoia does the canon 7d have good IQ?

[conoramoia]

@fullboxxskater it does indeed

[jamesLG1]

@myduis crop factor

[myduis]

@jamesLG1 - CROP is ONLY CROP.

If you buy 400mm lens for APS-C 1.6x body, STILL you have 400mm, but cropped 1.6x. BUT NOT 640mm... DOF/GO is still 400mm, but you lost angle of view. Like 640mm, but not REAL 640mm lens. Read more about that.

[DrRClavan]

@myduis Soo right. I'm so fed up with morons who have a 50mm lens and a camera with an (imaginary) cropfactor of 10x saying "I've got a 500mm lens".

[pedalman]

@myduis , yes a lot of folks don't realise that the 1.6 sensor is just a crop , its better on a DX sensor than on a FX sensor as the pixels are more densely packed onto the DX chip for the same number of pixels that is eg..12mp DX and 12mp FX.

[36Bananapies]

@myduis

This is technically true, but you can't throwaway important stuff like pixel density...

[BadBoyBillionaires]

Yo Jeremy dude! Dont you get it 400mm using extender 2x is equal to 800mm..400 x by 2 equal to 800...learn some MATHS DUMB ASS!

[Sunshockey14]

@jeremychuayx the 500d has 15mp

[rewtenant]

What tripod and head did you use? Im looking for something as stable as the one you have here.

[roygift]

I love the lens and the extender but 500d is terrible when it comes to recording movies due to its very slow autofocus. You can forget shooting moving targets.

[myduis]

contrast detect type AF - works on 50D, 500D, 5D mark II.

[alvarogon0618]

show us some photos that you have taken and does this lens zoom in???

[Sturticles]

Hi.

I'm curious as to how this works. .

I thought at an apeture that low the AF would not work.

It is making some odd sounds when it focuses.

What is that? And also, when you're focusing the lighting goes crazy?

I'm not sure how you filmed this, etc. . .

Could I get some more info?

Thanks.