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The new Mitakon Canon EF to MFT Lens Turbo adapter can be ordered on [shoplink 45218 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. It basically does the same job of a Metabones Speed Booster but costs much less (and will not match the Metabones quality).
UPDATE: Personal View has a long topic about these alternative adapter. It’s interesting to read it to learn about their strength and weaknesses.
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Well, let’s not forget that the Metabones EF to MFT Speed Booster doesn’t even have a release date yet.
great, whats next? ill hope its a MD-M43. i have lots of MD glass that could use the extra speed and FOV for instance 135mm f2.8 would become a 100 mm f2
the metabones version is too expesive and even if i had the money its a very rare item u cant buy at the nearest camera store
There is plenty of mounts coming along 🙂 Keep an eye on this thread:
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9086/rj-lens-turbo-m43-adapters/p1
Strange, thought I posted already. EF-MFT exists for some time.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Focal-Reducer-Speed-Booster-adapter-For-Canon-EF-mount-Lens-to-Micro-4-3-Camera-/281240980971?pt=US_Lens_Adapters_Mounts_Tubes&hash=item417b44cdeb
I’ve been playing with several lenses on it.
http://beomagi.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-little-test-of-4-different-25mm-f14.html
http://beomagi.blogspot.com/2014/03/evaluating-cheap-focal-reducer-with.html
Cheapest of the bunch but you can judge the quality yourself.
Good comparison shots on your blog.
I bought the cheap FD/m43 focal reducer. I had already purchased a FD/m42 and FD/nikon adapter in anticipation. My 35mm Flektogon is now 25mm making 50mm actual on the em1. Still playing but it looks quite good, seems to keep the flektogon contrast ok.. Will try the panacolar next and change mounts on some of my other lenses to nikon and see what happens.
The focal reducer is smaller than a normal adapter and make for a small combination.
LOL… The lens in the picture is a Nikon.
Of course they’d pick a Nikon lens over a Canon.
Anyone with any sense would! 😉
Sense in this world is not relevant. After all we have Politicians. Wall St and other financial hangers-on and of course Lawyers. Sense, what’s that got to do with anything. (no question mark its not a question its a statement)
Really? Tell us more, “expert”.
JOKE ALERT!
Strange! Maybe its because the focal reducer is the Ai version????
I don’t understand why it takes so long for Metabones to make one of these EF to MFT adapter. It doesn’t matter if they can’t do the AF and IS working like the EF to NEX adapter. But at least we can enjoy the speed booster with the wider view and one extra stop of light on MFT bodies!! I’m sure Metabones would make the better quality than other brands 😛
WOW…I can put my GIANT Canon EF lenses on my small mirrorless camera body. This makes soooo much sense to me? I think this is what made the Canon M (for mediocre) so popular. This is the whole reason I bought into the MFT system to begin with. LOL! (All the above said with extreme sarcasm).
This makes absolutely no sense to me at all. Go figure? I will have a big lens on a small camera body that it was never intended to be on. It will have poor or no AF and work awkwardly at best. This is fantastic! LOL.
Wow, I can put a really small camera with at better sensor on my giant Canon lens. Getting better IQ, less vibrations and decreasing the requirements for the tripod.
Where is the better sensor? I am interested.
All the recent m43 cameras have better sensors than Canon’s ancient ape design.
I know it’s weekend but you should not take that stuff. Look I am sorry, I am not selling you anymore.
Better IQ? And what about your IQ? One figure? Two figures?
Calm down. It makes a lot of sense if you think (and you need a brain to think, go figure). You can use high quality cinema glass on, lets say BMP or GH3 (4), and getting the same fov as on 35mm but with 1 (or more) stop faster, dar sharper than using just an adapter. Because it streches the number of lpmm to a smaller sensor. Anyway, keep your sarcasm for you!
I would respond…but I have to run out back and put my truck tires on my Mini.
Hee Hee.
I wont ask……….. but I bet is 2 on the front and 2 on the back.
You sound as if someone is trying to force you into doing that. You could also sell your Canon EF lenses.
Look…I LOVE my MFT cameras…they are small and compact and give great results, to a point. They complement my FF camera system very nicely…but the certainly do not replace it or compete with it in image quality. Sometimes I just have to lug the beasts around to get stellar IQ for Large Fine-Art prints. I am not putting MFT down …just stating facts. Therefore I will be keeping my huge EF lenses on my giant 5D3 where they belong. This idea seems silly to me? That’s all. I am allowed to have an opinion.
For small cams, I went Nikon 1 and I will get a G1X: they are way smaller, no reason to spend thousands on M43, which I find overpriced and overhyped. I actually wonder why Olympus don’t come out with a fixed-lens camera, now that would be useful. I think they will be gone in a few years.
If they are big, they gather more light. Canon has superior sensors, much larger, didn’t you know?
Larger sensors? Why? Sensor size doesn’t matter. Oh wait, it does. Greatly.
BlackMagic shoots Super16 video only, not stills and it is meant to be used rigged, not handheld. Have you seen the size and weight of the cinema lenses (angenieux, cooke, zeiss etc) it is meant to go with?
GH4 users might also be interested.
The fact that the rest of us will give it a pass is neither here nor there.
You’ll have a digital back for Canon EF lenses, and any lens that adapts to a Canon mount – so that’s EF, Nikon F and G, Pentax K and m42, Olympus OM, Leica R, some Minolta, converted FD.
It IS intended that manual lenses be used – that’s why we have focus peaking, and and mf button setting. Photography is about compromise. If I compromise size a bit for speed or cost, then why not? It works great.
“Go figure?” American?
” I will have a big lens on a small camera body that it was never intended to be on” Who said? Start to live in the real world. 4/3 and M34 started the ability to use some of the worlds best glass on small high quality cameras. Now its a whole industry. Again, start to live in the real world.
” It will have poor or no AF and work awkwardly at best.” No AF is fine.
as for awarkard? You must be a lazy sod. Try working with MF for a year or twenty or more, even better do it with film where every shot costs money. Again start to live in the real world.
“Go figure”??
Wow yours is a smart comment, friendly and well written, too.
jimspc, could you elaborate?
For you?
No.
I don’t think you would understand.
ehm, we already used exotic 4×5″ lenses on 24×36 format, so what is the big deal here?
I already have one for a couple of days from a German brand or rebrand, Camdiox.
The quality seems fairly good but i’ll do some comparision tests soon on the GX7 with it, with a simple adapter, and the same lens on a Canon 550D.
Many users don’t get this, but it is a crucial piece of equipment for me. I got in touch with Mitakon in China and had early access to this version. We shot an entire short film earlier this month in China with the Lens Turbo and Blackmagic Camera. Our genre calls for frequent use of wider lenses (35 is our “close-up lens”) and we had a lot of night scenes. The Lens Turbo allows us to stay in true wide angles and not shooting at F4. I did some tests and it does get a little too soft if we go wide open. Sharpness is maintained if I stop down one stop. So what’s the point of the lensturbo if I have to stop down most of the time? I get a FOV similar to the Alexa, and I have the option to gain one more stop of light (while compromising sharpness) if the situation calls for it.
Yes…I do not shoot video…perhaps that is why I do not understand this…Thanks for the explanation! Soft stills are even less acceptable.
I contacted Metabones and asked (even begged) them to produce a non-electronic version of m43-to-EF speedbooster, and they bluntly refused my request. Then I moved on to contact Mitakon and they were kind enough to design a prototype in time for our short film. They also listened to my comments and welcomed any suggestions from my field experience. I can’t thank them enough!
” It basically does the same job of aMetabones Speed Booster ” Are you sure?
I don’t see anywhere it can control the aperture of EF lenses as the Metabones can.
I don’t see any Metabones adapter at all to use EF-glass on MFT.