TheMartists (Click here) posted a full Lens Turbo Canon FD review. It’s a very well written test you have to read if you consider to buy it! Another test has been posted by Ney001 on Flickr. Overall it looks like the Lens Turbo cannot match the quality of the more expensive Speed Booster. But I hope we can see a direct comparison soon! P.S.: the original Metabones Speed Booster has been officially launched in Japan (DC.Watch).
It certainly isn’t fair, but most of the Chinese Stores sell the Lens Turbo with the “Speed Booster” title. SO if you search for [shoplink 18583 ebay]”Lens Turbo” on eBay (Click here) you get 9-10 results. If you search for [shoplink 18455 ebay]”Speed Booster” (Click here) you find zillions of adapters! So be aware that the official Meatbones Speed Boosters can be found here: http://www.metabones.com/buy-speed-booster
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in my opinion
I tested the lens turbo with many lenses
and I found out that
the lens turbo works great with the lens with f1.8 – f2 onwards
but it does not works well with fast glass such as nikon ais 50/1.2 and canon fd 85/1.2L
it produce a lot of coma and aberration
you can see some sample from Lens turbo with
FD 85/1.2L
FD 28/2.8
FD 50/1.4 SSC
nikon ais 50mm f1.2
nikon ais 24mm f2
Helios 44-m4 58mm f2
Mitakon lens turbo Test images
http://siammirrorless.com/board/index.php?topic=738.15
http://siammirrorless.com/board/index.php?topic=738.30
All these old manual superfast lenses produce a lot of purple fringing with digital cameras especially wide open on a sunny day and I’ve never seen that worse than with a Canon FD 85mm 1:1.2L for obvious construction reasons – that’s not a new matter added by the Lens Turbo. But your samples stopped down look very impressive already including this typical Bokeh you’re getting from this special lens and I’d expect wide open shots to be be more fun at low light…
That is to be expected. Pricewise, they are still interesting for some people I think. Maybe whitin some time second or later ‘batches’ getting better quality though…
Andrea, Thanks! 🙂
There is only one Speed Booster and it works great. 😀
I would really like to see some tests on the NEX -> MD turbo lens. I know my father has all those nice Minolta primes somewhere… I would really consider buying a NEX if I can expect good results (or at least as good as other lenses results). In such a case, I can just invest between 400 and 700€ for a perfect setup for myself 🙂
Will there ever be a Leica M to Nex Speedbooster?
No. Impossible. Speed booster sits where the mirror is in DSLRS, and M-mount lenses have no space reversed for it.
I took delivery of the FD version of Lens Turbo this week. I also have SpeedBooster and initial impressions indicate that SpeedBooster yields better image quality.
I own 7 lenses in the FD mount—two of them could not achieve infinity focus. And although there’s adjustability on the Lens Turbo, it is not an easy task to achieve.
Then again, I only paid 1/3 the price as I did for SpeedBooster.
I got the Nikon LT. So far, it’s been disappointing. I have dramatic blurring at the edges from various Nikon lenses.
I’m afraid you cannot call The lens turbo Cheap because it’s arguably unusable.