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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Corfield" data-source="post: 1407314" data-attributes="member: 19132">What I tend to do is go for the least amount of magnification possible and just crop the image in close if I want the bird bigger in the photo. This probably applies more to modern dslr's of 12 million or more pixels which allows for plenty of cropping. Here's an example of a bird at approx 50m (165 feet). Photo was taken with just the scope at 600mm and to make focusing really easy I used Live View and magnified the bird to 10X. 2nd photo is 100% crop but to make a pleasing photo you would only really need to crop about 50%.Out to 100m I can get away with just using the 1.4X Kenko Pro teleconverter and at the most I'll combine it with the 2X GSO but the success rate generally goes down as the magnification goes up. Cropped photos using less magnification are as good as the ones where I've used maybe double the magnification.Paul.</blockquote>