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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 211412" data-attributes="member: 13076">Re: Advice from the pro's plsThat 55-300 on a DX camera should be able to pull in the aircraft pretty well? I don't even think the 55-300 can be used with a Nikon 2x teleconverter, but even if you did, the loss in resolution and contrast, especially pulling in airplanes from far away, would be I think disappointing. Since you are usually focusing at near infinity anyway, consider a second-hand Nikon 300 mm f4 manual focus lens and put a second-hand Nikon 1.4x teleconverter on it. I bet the image quality would be so much better than with the 55-300 with a converter, and you would end up with the equivalent of 630 mm focal length with f5.6 which is not too shabby.</blockquote>