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Sorry to bother you again with Lens Turbo and Speed Booster news. But quite many SAR readers and NEX owners are interested to grab one of these. And since today they are now available in UK stores too:
[shoplink 18466 ebay]Canon FD to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18464 ebay]Nikon Ai to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18463 ebay]Pentax K to NEX (Click here)[/shoplink].
There is also a news on the original (and probably more high quality) Speed Booster from metabones. A new New Speed Booster Nikon G electronic adapter to be released by end of May. And Philip Bloom is right now testing the adapter on his Blackmagic Cinema Camera. We should see his reviews soon on his website.
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The “Ship from UK” is attractive for EU citizens, but check the seller’s feedback: 99.1 % with 43 negatives in the last 12 months, often complaining about wait times and shipping not from UK. I usually avoid sellers with similar feedback.
Personally I’m interested in the Minolta MD to NEX converter and I’ll wait with buying until I’ve seen direct comparisons between the Metabones Speed Booster and the one shown here.
ebay says:
“Member since: Apr-16-10
Location: Hong Kong”
I could ask you is 99.1% accpetable grade in school ? Often I think business reviews are hard because its a persons measure and not a standard. Don’t be so hard on business.
I think they are definitely UK based. I just checked the name and I used them before few years ago to buy an MD to NEX adapter. From what I remember I received my items within a week.
I have recieved items in less than 3 days from Hong Kong so it would be wrong to use the fact that it arrived within a week as evidence for a UK base.
Well it depends if you live in the UK doesn’t it. I do. Most things from HK take usually take a week to arrive here. For all I know you live in HK so saying you got something from HK in 3 days means nothing unless you’re in the UK yourself.
no, please. keep the lens turbo news coming, this is important news for nex users!
There’s also one seller (item number: 360659349671) showing pictures where the “Zhongyi” is gone – I’ve always wondered anyway what this name meant…
Am I missing something, or is there a definitive reason these couldn’t be made for A-mount with all the same benefits? Is it something to do with distance to the sensor? Or does no one think it worth their time to make an A-mount version? I would also like these benefits for my A65. Also, why not make one for using A-mount lenses on the NEX? I mean, wouldn’t that make more sense than all these other brands? Perhaps I just don’t get it, but I don’t have any of these other lenses that they make the adapters for, and I don’t think I’d buy one just for manual control of it unless it was obscenely good. What I’m basically saying is…. I don’t understand this craze at all.
It’s like a good idea that doesn’t support any of the native lenses or technologies for which it’s made. My one guess is that it’s a kind of bridge for people who have other lenses to get into the Sony NEX system, but that doesn’t help us A-mount system and lens owners at all, whether we’re thinking about getting a NEX or not. So it seems out of place on a website that’s supposed to be providing useful info and rumors to Sony Alpha users…
Just my two cents.
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Wtf is ebay DOING ? I keep having those messages really often when it comes about speed booster / lens turbo auctions…
There’s no such legal restriction in France.
Pfff
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I just got my Nex-FD lens turbo and tested with a nex-5N. This thing is nice. I didn’t see any sign of color spots are vignetting problems. As you would expect, the lens turbo works impressively with the 1.2 85mm. Along with various primes, I also tested a f4 70-210mm zoom. The zoom worked fine. I didn’t detect any images issues between various focal lengths… just the wider, brighter picture.
There is one issue using these FD lenses with this adapter worth noting. When a lens clicks into place with the adapter, because of the way FD lenses are designed, the aperture is stuck wide-open. If you have a older FD lens with the silver rotating mount, I think your stuck wide-open. With the newer FD lens, I found a work-around. You can unscrew the FD lens slightly from the lens turbo adapter to manually stop down the aperture.
Will these work with FL lenses? The Zhongyi ones require filing or digging it seems
No idea how I ended up on this page from the Canon FD speedbooster page…