Used teleconverter

[lodbrok]

Hi Anybody who knows what causes these lines when I use my pre-owned 1,4 teleconverter? And can it be fixed? I use it with my 200-600mm G lense. Maybee the previous owner dropped it and it has a mailfunction since that?

 

[MrFotoFool]

That is odd. Is it a Sony teleconverter, or another brand?

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

That looks like one of the elements is out of line, I'm surprised it's working. I would reckon fixing it would be expensive. I'd return it.

 

[lodbrok]

Yeah It's sony's

That is odd. Is it a Sony teleconverter, or another brand?

Hi it is Sony's TC.

 

[lodbrok]

That looks like one of the elements is out of line, I'm surprised it's working. I would reckon fixing it would be expensive. I'd return it.

I will contact the seller in Japan via E-bay and see what he has to say..

 

[lodbrok]

Time placed13 Feb 2022 at 11:46 PM
Order number15-08259-32343
TotalUS $497.00 (1 item)
Sold by ....................

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New message from: m...........a (13,471 )​

Dear ********* Thank you for your message. It is unfortunate, but this item is no longer eligible for return/refund. We hope for your understanding. Regards, M..........a​

 

[MrFotoFool]

That really stinks; very bad customer service. The price you paid also seems very high for a used teleconverter - I mean it is almost as much as a new one.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Time placed13 Feb 2022 at 11:46 PM
Order number15-08259-32343
TotalUS $497.00 (1 item)
Sold bymapcamera

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New message from: mapcamera (13,471 )​

Dear ********* Thank you for your message. It is unfortunate, but this item is no longer eligible for return/refund. We hope for your understanding. Regards, Map Camera​

Contact Ebay, they will rule in your favour, especially if the item has a warranty of some kind.

 

[lodbrok]

That really stinks; very bad customer service. The price you paid also seems very high for a used teleconverter - I mean it is almost as much as a new one.

Yeah! In my country Norway the TC cost around 750 euro. Almost the same in dollar for us since the norwegian currency is weak against dollar.

 

[lodbrok]

Contact Ebay, they will rule in your favour, especially if the item has a warranty of some kind.

Yeah I will do that.

Contact Ebay, they will rule in your favour, especially if the item has a warranty of some kind.

I will do that. Funny how the seller ended his reply:

We hope for your understanding.​

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Yeah I will do that.

I will do that. Funny how the seller ended his reply:

We hope for your understanding.​

Yeah, they have sold a faulty product, Ebay are great with this stuff.

 

[lodbrok]

Update

Was at my local camera-shop for a swop to A9ii from A7iii. Had a chat about that 'faulty' teleconverter making those weird lines on the sky etc. And then he show me a shot from someone else with the same issue. And then he said turn on lense-distotion in the meny's and it will take care of the problem. Sony has this by default set to - of - when you buy a new camera.. the other two in that department is set to auto.

After I set up the A9ii watching Mark Smith's preferences and ofcource the lense-distortion to on!!! The skyshots was perfect! No more weird lines.

And I highly recomend to put a custom recal nr1 to the senterbutton in the control-wheel with a setup for perched/birds sitting still. I set up mine with 1/500 sec. auto iso - spot-metering - flexible spot small - aperature as default. And then when I shoot in 1/3200 sec. on B.I.F. and all of a sudden see a sitting bird I instantly push in the senter-button and then I have a slow shutter in a blink of an eye!

I also asign custom recall nr2 to the lense with 1/2000 sec. and exposure compensation set to - 1,7 multi-metering etc.
And nr3 with the same only changed the exposure-compensation to +1,7.

This is much because I was shooting black-headed gulls one day diving with exposure comp. set to -1,7 or -2,0 and all of a sudden an eagle passes me... I then raised my camera with a lazer sight and back-buttom focused and all of the shots was only dark shadows out of focus...
Its always a struggle with dark birds and white birds and constantly changing the exposer-compensation when your out in the field.

So now I have expend flexible spot on my focusbutton and zone with tracking on my AEL button and the sitting bird program on the senter-button with flexible spot S.

 

[lodbrok]

Luckely I didn't do anything with the E-bay seller yet.