Canon EF Extender 1.4x III and EF Extender 2x III review and tutorial

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Canon has updated the 1.4x and 2x ‘Extender’ teleconverters, to adaptation III. The EF Extender 1.4x III and EF Extender 2x III both action absolutely fresh optical designs, acclimate aggressive construction, Fluorine coatings on the advanced and rear elements, and swear college AF accurateness than the antecedent versions. They additionally accommodate redesigned lens absolution mechanisms and chip processors for bigger advice amid the camera and lens.

Extend the ability of your telephoto lens with Canon’s Extender EF 1.4x III and Extender EF 2x II

London, 26th August 2010 – Canon today unveils two lens extenders advised for its L-series ambit of fresh super-telephoto lenses. Advised for photojournalists, attributes and sports photographers who charge to get abutting to abroad and arduous subjects, the Extender EF 1.4x III and Extender EF 2x III access the focal breadth of a lens by a agency of 1.4x and 2x appropriately while still carrying superb angel quality. To ensure the best accessible angel affection in all cutting conditions, they additionally amalgamate added ecology protection, redesigned eyes and bigger abstracts advice amid lens and camera.

Canon able angel quality

Allowing able photographers to shoot abroad capacity after accepting to backpack a cardinal of abundant lenses with them, these fresh extenders ensure there is no accommodation on angel quality. The Extender EF 1.4x III actualization three lens groups of seven elements, and the Extender EF 2x III actualization three groups of nine elements, ensuring bigger optical performance. All optical elements use Canon’s Super Spectra coating, abbreviation ghosting and blaze to minimise post-processing requirements. A fresh Fluorine Blanket on the advanced and rear elements makes marks, such as spots larboard by baptize or fingerprints, abundant easier to apple-pie than accepted coatings.

To facilitate the authentic alteration of imaging abstracts amid the lens and camera body, both models affection an chip processor which ensures all focusing, metering and ID advice is accessible – acceptance the columnist to abduction crisp, well-exposed images. Back accumulated with the most recent ambit of aberrant Canon L-series lenses, these extenders accredit college AF accurateness compared to antecedent generations, ensuring professionals accomplish altogether aciculate shots, alike back capturing affective subjects.

Redesigned for aerial performance

The Extender EF 1.4x III and Extender EF 2x III accept been advised to accompaniment the most recent ambit of L-series lenses, analogous their actualization and alms a arresting adverse from antecedent models. A anxiously positioned lens absolution apparatus additionally makes it accessible to arise the extenders quickly, abbreviation the time that the camera and lens are apparent to the environment. The extenders action the aberrant build-quality accepted from Canon’s able products, and are aggressive to both dust and water, acceptance photographers to use them in acute cutting conditions.

For acceptable transport, the 225g Extender EF 1.4x III and 325g Extender EF 2x III are supplied with a bendable case (LP811) and Extender Cap EII.