What made me interested in the lens converter was the purchase of the Nikon Reflex-Nikkor • C 500mm f/8 Telephoto Lens. It is a lens with the basic construction of a reflecting telescope such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This lens had piqued my interest in seeing just what I could see through it with the lens converter because additionally, it magnifies the lens once applied by a factor of x10.
I had initially read about the Nikon Lens Scope Converter as well as the Nikon Nikkor Reflex C 500mm f8 from Ken Rockwell. The interest in pointing my Nikon D780 skyward has always been one that I wanted to develop and already I had completed my first attempts at Moon photography with my AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 G ED VR FX. However, the Lens Scope Converter will not work with G series lenses due to the mechanical engagement to open the aperture. G series lenses aperture operation is electronic, the application of the Lens Scope Converter is mechanical. There are modification instructions available online to use the Lens Scope Converter with G series Nikkor lenses.
Anyway, I have two other 300mm lenses that I’ll try the Lens Scope Converter with, the Nikkor ED IF 300mm f4.5 AIS and the Zoom Nikkor 100-300 f5.6 AIS. The ED lens has a tripod mount where as the Zoom is a hand held. I’ve tried to hand hold the Reflex lens with no useable results as the magnification is far too great to actually keep a subject in the narrow field of view, steady for any reasonable amount of time. The magnification accentuates movement.
The Lens Scope Converter is an F-Mount device so I’ll try some of my shorter focal length lenses just for fun.
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