The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Nikon TC-16A teleconverter

A small part of a large photograph of a group. I found it inside a cardboard tube. I did not remove it entirely lest it was a nuisance to restore. I suppose these type of photographs have been largely superseded by digital images now. At least that provides some extra space in drawers and cupboards in domestic dwellings.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f/4.5 lens.

Posted previously, but this is a brighter edit. My recent visit to Avebury on 4 October, 2018, reminds me of this scene photographed almost exactly three years before. The light at this time of year can be compelling if the clouds allow the sun to illuminate the stones. Nikon D2Xs + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

Nikon D2Xs + TC-16A teleconverter + 50mm f/1.8 AI lens.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs fitted with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens. With the teleconverter, the lens becomes a 120-240mm f/5.6. On the cropped sensor, the field of view is therefore 180-360mm - not bad for a dinky lightweight lens taking a 52mm filter. The Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 lens is generally accepted to have been the best of the Series E range; in 'The Nikon Compendium Handbook of the Nikon System' by Rudolf Hillebrand and Hans-Joachim Hauschild, it is remarked, 'The image quality of this NIC-coated lens is so good that it would have fitted perfectly into the Nikkor programme.' This lens was available only from 1979 to 1983, being discontinued because the market was demanding zoom lenses with greater reach. Hemlock Water-Dropwort is a common tall robust plant of ditches, streamsides and river banks, and is highly poisonous.

Sundial on Maud Heath's monument at Tytherton Kellaways, Wiltshire. Nikon D2Xs fitted with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter and a 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens.

Avebury stone circle, Wiltshire. Tightly framed for perspective effect with a Nikon TC-16A teleconverter between a Nikon D2Xs and a Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 series E zoom lens at full stretch. Thus the field of view was about 360mm using full-frame as the yardstick.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

September, 2015: Viewed from a country churchyard. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.

The Nikon TC-16A teleconverter between a camera and an AI Nikkor lens. Once you have roughly focussed the combination, the TC-16A will take over and provide precise critical focus, as long as the camera you have the rig attached to is compatible. The TC-16A was introduced in 1985 when Nikon were behind in the automatic focus department. It was designed to reassure photographers with a collection of fast manual focus Nikkors that their needs were being taken care of and that they need not switch allegiance to another camera manufacturer. Nikon were slow to introduce their range of AF lenses at that time, having been corporately sceptical about automatic focus for professional SLR users. They thought AF would be viewed as a gimmick. How wrong they were. The TC-16A is not compatible with every Nikon camera. It will work fine on the F401; F501; F801; F4; F90; F5; and D2. I use it on a D2Xs and an F90X and although Nikon say the lenses teamed with it must be f/2.8 or faster, I have noticed it works well enough with a 300mm f/4.5 lens as well. Some users hack their TC-16A teleconverters to make them functional with D200 and D300 cameras. Apparently it is not very difficult to modify the instrument, but I am not recommending it. Photographed with an AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G on a Nikon D2Xs.