Originally posted by Nicolas06 A good lense doesn't need sharpening if not heavily cropped and to me you used post processing to try to compensate for the lighting, cropping etc. Maybe many would haven't done better in the same situation as you taking this shoot but this doesn't sell the lense.
Your absolutely full of yourself. I can't even be bothered to respond. And i wasn't trying to sell the lens. the issue was, is it as good with the TC. I picked a couple of images where based on my viewing on a monitor 2700 pixels wide at pixel peeping mode, the TC image was sharper than the cropped image with no TC. Now if you all want to complain about the sharpening fine... have at her. Hope you don' mind if I don't care.
I'm not going to get into all this doctrinaire BS everyone is posting. It would be a full time job.
If you aren't lazy full of yourself morons post a few images to illustrate the points you're making. I could have done the same lazy ass things you guys do. . I could have not checked out my images looking for a few that showed what I was talking about, put them up on line for all to see. I could have just shot my mouth off like everyone else.
I can sit back and snipe as good as the next guy. Ya'll are just way too funny.
My take on this, if you don't want to believe that it might possible to get more subject resolution with a TC than with an enlarged crop, challenge the sample images sharpening. Don't say anything where you might actually have to post some images that prove your point. Argue about sharpening. Great tack. But, don't be thinking I can't see what's going on here.
Have a nice day.