View from the Shard with 1,000mm LENS ( Nikon 500mm PF + 2x teleconverter )

I went to one of the best London viewpoints - the View from the Shard - with my new Nikon 500mm f5.6 PF lens and the latest model of the 2x teleconverter - theNikon TC-20E Mark III .
Why ? Because I always wondered what sort of photos/videos can you get with that level of telephoto from the highest observation deck in Western Europe. Also wanted to find if shooting with this setup through the glass panels will get any decent images or will everything be just soft because of the window glass quality.

I'm testing the Nikon 500mm f/5.6E Pf Ed Vr AF-s Nikkor with the teleconverter and without, in FX and DX mode, shooting photos and 4K video, and while this video is in 1080, i show scaled 4k into 1080 timeline and crop 1080 out of the 4k for pixel to pixel quality while benefiting from the additional 2x crop.

Lens + teleconverter combo setups I test:
500mm FX 4K
500mm DX 4k ~ equivalent of 750mm
500mm DX 4k, 1080p middle crop ~ equivalent of 1,500mm
500mm FX 4K + 2x teleconverter ~ equivalent of 1,000mm
500mm DX 4k + 2x teleconverter ~ equivalent of 1,500mm
500mm DX 4k + 2x teleconverter ,1080p middle crop ~ equivalent of 3,000mm

All shot handheld, shot in Stabilization ON mode ( not sport ), NO post stabilization added, only saturation, contrast and sharpness +15 added, as shot in Nikon's Flat profile.

Vlog elements shot on iphone 11Pro with Feiyu-Tech Vlog Pocket gimbal.

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Music via Epidemic Sound...and unfortunately copyrighted music was playing at the Shard in the background that I cannot remove.

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