FS: Kenko 1.4x Teleplus Pro 300 DGX for Canon

Item for Sale: Kenko 1.4x Teleplus Pro 300 DGX for Canon

Item Condition: Excellent, very close to new. This extender saw very limited use.There are no marks on the body or the glass. I did some limited testing with a Canon 70-200 vII and it works well.

Sale Includes: Extender, front and rear caps, bag, original box.

Price: $65 includes PayPal fee & shipping

Payments Accepted: PayPal

Possible Trades: None

Shipping Methods Available (Ships From): USPS from Ashland, Oregon

Shipping Available To: USA, Canada

Item location: Ashland, Oregon

Best Contact Method: PM

Feedback: I have bought and sold many items here. Check the old feedback thread for many positive reviews

Reason for selling: Selling for a friends wife. He died recently and I am helping liquidate his equipment.

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This TC works great. It provides very sharp images with the 70-200 vII I tested with.

Is the 1.4x still available?

Yes it is.

bpalermini wrote in post #18653550
Yes it is.

Maybe you could mention the special features of this converter.

It is potentially problematic with the very newest bodies (with f/8 AF). I couldn't use mine with my 7D2, but on my 7D and my 6D (still my most current FF camera), it allows AF to attempt operation at all AF points with f/8 optics, It works slower than f/5.6, obviously, but does actually focus as long as lighting and contrast are sufficient. With my original 100-400 v1 and the 6D, it will actually focus at all AF points in light low enough for ISO 25600 at 1/250s at f/8, on flat surfaces with decent contrast.

Another great thing about this converter is that with the older cameras with which it *is* compatible, it gives correct EXIF data not only about its own influence, but including any non-DGX 2nd TC stacked between the DGX and the lens! If anyone is using the cameras compatible with this converter, this converter is golden! I really miss the correct EXIF it can give, when I use the older DG version on my 7D2, and all AF-points at f/8 (7D2 is center-only at f/8).

I have a Kenko DG version of this converter, which is excellent (just spent a week testing it against the Canon 1.4X III and couldn't tell the difference at f/8, f/9).

You are saying that the DGX version will not work with a 7D2/80D at f/8 (presumably it will at f/5.6 with all bodies). I am looking to pick this up as a second converter to use principally with a 300mm f/4L or 70-200 f/2.8L while I use the DG series one with the 100-400 Mk2 on my 7D2.

Getting tired of swapping lenses...

PM sent.

russbecker wrote in post #18653690
I have a Kenko DG version of this converter, which is excellent (just spent a week testing it against the Canon 1.4X III and couldn't tell the difference at f/8, f/9).

You are saying that the DGX version will not work with a 7D2/80D at f/8 (presumably it will at f/5.6 with all bodies). I am looking to pick this up as a second converter to use principally with a 300mm f/4L or 70-200 f/2.8L while I use the DG series one with the 100-400 Mk2 on my 7D2.

Getting tired of swapping lenses...

No; I mean it can turn a 7D2 into a paperweight that won't take pictures at all, or takes them but disables IS, or any number of strange phenomena. It was only designed for Canon bodies that already existed at the time it was designed, and had no guaranteed forward compatibility. It goes outside of normal TC protocol, which is to only talk to a lens that has the TC pins (not all do), and not to the body. The DGX intercepts the signalling that normally occurs only as pass-through between the body and lens and changes it, The signalling or timing apparently changed with some new cameras and the DGX's assumptions are wrong, and interfere with camera functioning.

I don't remember or know all the details, but I do know that I and many others can't use it with the 7D2 or the 80D, and possibly some other newer (only f/8 AF ones, maybe?) cameras. What it is guaranteed to do right is work like magic on older bodies, with older lenses (I don't remember if new lenses on older bodies is ever an issue off the top of my head).

For anyone using older f/5.6 cameras and older lenses, you can be sure that this TC delivers all the magic it is supposed to, and is a steal at $65, even if only for correct EXIF data for manually-focused optics with two stacked TCs. Just don't assume it will work with newer bodies, especially. I was very sad to lose what it did on my 7D when it didn't work with the 7D2. On the 7D or 6D, I'd choose it over the Canon 1.4xIII if I could only have one or the other.