Yes, it can make a difference, but it's going to make your camera considerably heavier, plus there'll be a big loss of brightness, so it's not worth the risk.
Without a teleconverter, the AF must work correctly. With a 2x teleconverter, however, it becomes a dark zoom with f13 at the long end and a cheap DSLR cannot cope with that. They usually stop working at f8. This is nothing new, it has been known for a long time. It should be in the technical data. Newer mirrorless cameras have no problem with this.
This product is compatible with the Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM lens, as well as with Nikon F-Mount cameras, so it should be compatible with your setup.
Hello Michael
The new TC-1401 and TC-2001 converters are not compatible with this lens, but the older teleconverters of the EX DG series would fit and are still available. I would advise you to use at most a 1.4x converter for this lens, with the 2.0x you will hardly achieve satisfactory results.
No, it works exclusively with Sigma 150-600 Contemporary / - Sport and a few other Sigma objectives. There is a table published on the according Sigma webpage, that shows with which objective it's compatible and whether AF works: https://www.sigma-global.com/de...
Hello Stefan
if it is the Sigma 18-200mm F3,5-6,3 DC Makro OS HSM | Contemporary, the converters do not fit according to Sigma.
See Sigma technical data: https://www.sigma-foto.de/objektive...
Greetings
Patrick
No. Teleconverters are intended for professional lenses with continuous apertures of 2.8. and max 4.
If you need extra focal length I recommend e.g. a Tamron or Sigma 150-600mm... everything else makes no sense and is even mechanically often not possible.
If it is mechanically possible then you lose autofocus and image stabiliser.
To achieve a long focal length I recommend a DX body (1.5x crop) and a 150-600mm.
This will give you 225-900mm.
With my Nikon 7100 and the Sigma 150-600 Contemporary, the AF unfortunately only worked up to about 450mm, after that you have to focus from Manuel. The multiple measuring fields don't work either, and so I have already returned the converter... :-(