These Hyacinth Macaws were VERY high up in a tree in Pantanal, Brazil. This was taken with the Panasonic 100-300mm plus an extended telephoto feature of the Olympus OMD-EM5. The 100-300mm is great.

Nice shot, do you mean Digital Tele-converter in the shooting menu of the OMD-EM5 by extended telephoto feature?

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Renaud

I am sorry but I just realized that I did not use the Digital Tele-converter for that photo. The photo below was taken with the extended telephoto feature of the OMD-EM5:

All of these images are dynamite! Were these shots taken with the camera handheld or on a tripod?

I have an EPL-2 and was wondering if the Pany 100-300 would be like the proverbial odd-couple size-wise

The 100–300 is a good size lens. It definitely looks big compared to my G3, but not crazed like some of those giant lenses.

I don't think I've posted any of my bird shots in this thread — they're in the Nature: Birds thread — but I shoot handheld only.

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Whats the difference between digital teleconverter and extended telephoto?

All my shots on page one of this thread are handheld. I have only used a tripod once with this lens and that was to shoot the moon with it.

I use it with a Pana GF1 which is roughly about the same size and shape as your EPL-2.

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Darren

Digital tele-converter is a crop. So your image resolution is halved. You can do this on your own with any post processing software. Even MS Paint. All you do is resize the canvas.

The non-digital tele-converter is a physical part. Panasonic calls their Tele-converter lens, DMW-GTC1.



It's a $149 part you can buy. You attach it to the end of your lens to double the magnification, but you don't lose any image resolution. Most people will mean this when they say they used a tele-converter.

However I thought the tele-converter only works on the Panasonic 14-42mm kit lens.

Panasonic also makes macro, wide-angle and fisheye.

Olympus makes macro, wide-angle and fisheye. However no tele-converter.

Olympus OMD-EM5, Panasonic 100-300mm

Ok, but then I still do not know what he exactly means by writing:
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I am sorry but I just realized that I did not use the Digital Tele-converter for that photo. The photo below was taken with the extended telephoto feature of the OMD-EM5

What is the extended telephoto feature of the EM5?