Right, stage one of the new equipment is complete. It was the cheapest bit.
Calumet won this one at £201.50.
Now I can only use it on my EF70-200mm f/4 still quite impressed with the results.
With this extender the f/4 drops down a stop to f/5.6. Now initially I was worried that this might be a little slow (hence me thinking of a 300mm f/2.8), but the tests from a couple of days ago seem to be quite positive. The weather not ideal for photography, bad light and pissing down. Still the 70-200 & EF1.4 is weather proofed so had no worries there. The 5D isn’t weather proofed, but it came through with no ill effects.
Both taken at Birmingham Airport (well the golf course next to it). Using the 5D EF70-200 f/4 and EX1.4 Shots both around 1/320 and at f/5.6 iso 400. The shots were taken at the max focal length of 280mm. Not great pics, but I’m happy. I will need to take some tripod shots as well.