It works. I've tried
My take is, since you are using a Pro-lens, why waste it??:angry:
Make full use of it from the huge amount you paid for it.
Add a TC which costs a fifth of the lens price and Walah
It becomes 340mm.
Having 70-200 f/2.8 VR, you are already holding one the best trinity lens in Nikon series, adding a TC 1.4, gives you up to 280mm which is pretty near 300mm or if you want, go get a TC 1.7 which gives you 340mm. Using teleconverters gives you slower effective lens, basically is "multiplier * original aperture f/stop" For TC 1.4, your f/2.8 lens becomes f(2.8 * 1.4), For TC 1.7: f(2.8 * 1.7) and TC 2 f(5.6). Forget the 70-300mm, you are wasting money because your are repeating your focal length for 70-200mm range. Since you already own a 70-200mm, means weight is not an issue for you right from the beginning, if you feel it is any issue, then sell it away and gt the 70-300, but there you go, you wasted $ and also you get a much slower lens from 4.5~5.6 which wonders why you got the 70-200 in the first place
Both TC 1.4 and TC 1.7 gives good enough sharpness when use with 70-200, only TC 2 will give you a less than impressive image quality. At TC 1.7, your lens is still faster than 70-300mm.
2 issues with your recommendation though it's a feasible one that the TS must take note.
It comes with a price pal
d80 IQ is not anywhere near what D700 can offer you, even with a TC 2.0 on the 70-200 lens. Your 1.5 crop factor is not giving u extra, just that it crops. and gives u a tighter framing. Then if you use a D300, you still get similar number of pixels because the pixel pitch is smaller now, meaning your noise gets much higher in this case between D300 sensor technology is not much advance than D700's. Worse you are suggesting D80, lower pixel count and less advance technology compared to D300.
Of course if you are covering an event, 2 bodies is a very good to have option.
I total agree with what you have say :thumbsup: So do you have a TC ? And what do you recomm for shooting golf game ? Thanks
I have not covered any golf game, so I ain't the right person to give recommendation on it
But I suspect if you are in a golf game and you are using full frame body, I don't think 200mm is tight enough to cover a full person ? I observe over television broadcast that observers are normally quite far away. But you definitely don't need a f/2.8 for golf game because it will be quite well lit. I would say TC2.0 giving you 140-400 at 1.5 f-stop lesser than 2.8 is good enough on a sunny day.
My 2 cents worth.
