70-200, 300 f4, and teleconverters

[curtyoungblood]

I've been trying to figure out a cheap way to get my lenses into the 300+ realm for sports for a few months. I've got a 70-200 that works pretty well, but it somewhat limiting, so I've been researching a 1.4x converter and the 300 f4. After reading about all the pros and cons, I decided to get the converter, but rented a 300 f4 this week for the Arkansas/A&M game this weekend. I now have a bunch of high school football photos from all kind of combinations of those three, and I wanted to share some samples for other people who may be making the same decision. I know that I found it difficult to find any useful images.

All images are processed and have been downsized for the web.

70-200 at 200: iso 8,000, f2.8, 1/640

70-200 + 1.4x: iso 12,800, f4, 1/640

300: iso 25,600, f4, 1/640

300 + 1.4x: iso 25,600, f5.6, 1/640

 

[tirediron]

Nice, clean images; what body were you using?

 

[curtyoungblood]

5d mark iii.

I totally meant to include that in the original post.