Andrew Reid from EosHD (Click here) discovered that the very acclaimed EOS to E-mount adapter with electronic controls from Metabones was defective! Andrew says the optical design has “major ghosting and inner reflections from the internal plastic housing.”
The good news is that Metabones now fixed the problem with an anti-reflective part. If you already own one of the first issued adapters contact Metabones and send your adapter back for a service!
Metabones website: http://conurus.com/intro
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I guess other companies are not immune to releasing less than ready products to market.
I bought a metabones Leica-M to NEX adapter and it was incredibly loose and caused the lens to rock around noisily in the mount. Not sure if they fixed that issue since then. I only bought it over generic because the shiny red looked nice but I think the generic would’ve done a better job.
AGREED
Metabones are just lowsy expansive pieces of junk.
Metabones. Your smart adapter choice… eventually.
Why they put a square baffle inside the thing is baffling to me. This is an old problem before Metabones adapter. Some of the earliest Alpha/NEX LAEA-1 and third party adapters had the same problems with the square baffle. The cheap ones with full opening don’t suffer that issue. Perhaps the SLT in the LAEA-2 prevents that one from having problems, though it still has the square baffle design.
The square baffle might be to enclose the electronic parts. I think it is a good product except the price is still a little high to tackle single problem for specific lenses. I am still wandering to have one because I have Canon lenses and several adapter for Canon too. It still save some money on buying several type of adapter for NEX.
Is there bokeh cutoff with full-frame lenses? One of the top annoyances of the LA-EA1, IMO.
Given the price of this thing the problems with it are ridiculous.
I would never buy one.
Well, so far the Metabones Canon EF Adapter is the very best option to attach non E-Mount lenses beside these SONY LA-EAx Adapters and it isn’t not that much more expensive than these adapters were at the beginning. For Canon EOS Users it’s absolutely awesome to continue with their existing glass on a mirrorless camera or especially a NEX-FS100. If I had spend many thousands already for those lenses, I’d be very tempted to buy this adapter. But especially this proprietary port for firmware updates, that requires sending the adapter to Hong Kong for every updating process would let me wait until the problems are fixed and the price drops down.
The second gen Metabones adapter has many issues: first it only works 10% of the time due to improperly places electric contacts! I tried it with the 16-35mm EF 2.8 lens and the adapter and the lens move, which causes intermittent functioning. As soon as you touch the lens to focus, the adapter stops working!
The adapter is mechanically too loose. Metabones needs to eliminate these mechanical gaps that allow the lens to move, disrupting the electric pins/ connectors!
The second issue is that captured images have good detail only in the middle of the frame, the rest is visibly blurry! I tried the same lens on a Canon 5d2 and it was fine.
Thanks for the report. Was it a NEX-7?
So does this adaptor let you use autofocus on the body?