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Many of the kite flyers at the big festivals are semi-professionals who get their air tickets, hotel and food paid for by the organisers. Kite festivals are great attractions many places, and draw tourists and locals by the tens of thousands, people who spend money on food, drink.... and kites. The place I was in Malaysia, Johor Bahru, even has a kite museum next to the kite ground. The sultan of Johor performed the official opening.
Mamy thanks Louis. Very nice!I got a new toy for my Lumix Leica 200/2.8 the other day, which is the 2x Teleconverter - bringing the effective focal length up to 400mm (or 800mm equivalent 35mm fl).
The weather in the UK has been appalling for about a week but I managed to get a couple of good shots of two different birds yesterday.
Hi Louis,
In a way you are right. For small birds it is a very useful extension. But for larger birds, the 800mm effective focal length is hard to handle - and BIF is not easy unless they are in the distance (like the helicopter). The 2.0x will be very handy for small birds but for BIF I think the 1.4x is a lot easier.
I plan to do a review of both TCs and post it at my web site. I'm not into side-by-side testing. The IQ of both TCs seems good. The 2.0x may be a little softer but at present that could also be me, poor light and slow shutter speeds. I need some damn sun (missing a lot here in the UK) and my Kites out in Buckinghamshire in order to do a proper test (hopefully on Thursday of this week).
Great, if you could do a compare too with the PL100-400 and PL200+2.0x, let's say both at f/8.0, that would be awesome !
It looks like you figured it out as well. :clap:
