Catching up with a news I didn’t post: Fotodiox 10-Stop ND filter adapter for E-mount now ships at:
Canon EF to Sony E-mount at BHphoto (Click here).
Nikon F to Sony E-mount at Amazon (Click here).
Minolta MD to Sony E-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Instead of going through long press releases to understand how this works…just watch those two videos:
Five Facts about the ND Throttle: Why Put A Variable ND Inside A Lens Adapter?
FDXtra: Variable ND Lens Adapter – the Vizelex ND Throttle
Reminder: Though full metal E-mount replacement at Amazon (Click here to preorder) and BHphoto (Click here to preorder).
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If it remains autofocus. Then this is something i realy need. ( Depend on and if this adapter is a good one )
Would be a nice option with a Nikon G > E-mount version. I can easily imagine the 14-24 AF-S with the benefit of the 10stop ND filter included in the adapter!
That would lure me one step more into sony to use my wide angle lenses here. Autofocus is not important for me there.
I believe there is one or one on the way.
Aah! Adaptors on the end of adaptors, then a lovely lens on the end of it all…Won’t that wobbly lens mount just love that!!
Roll Up, Roll Up, buy Sony ‘E’, the point and shoot for the rich and the only camera with a wobbly mount, no IBIS, and needs an adaptor for everything!
Put down the crack pipe Johnny Boy, drugs are bad.
That ugly blue ring on the adapter makes a perfect duo with the equally ugly orange mount ring.
Place some black electrical tape around it and stop crying.
There must be black electrical tape all around you
Sony should put a similar variable ND filter in the next LA-EA 5 adapter. That would be something.
Exactly what I have been thinking. Could also enable more light to AF system when light is plentiful to speed up and assist AF, while also being able to act as an ND controlled in camera (which could have some other nice benefits too).
In fact if they could make it fast switching enough it could eliminate rolling shutter issues.
I remember reading here or somewhere that sony is working on electrically adjusted nd. Nd value changes with electric current. Probably first used on high end video cameras. That tech combined with more robust sensor signal manipulation would render such optical nd filtration solutions obsolete.
Wow I guess it takes a admin to remove my comment to prevent people from realising that ugly bring ring on the adapter!
Well, if you are sponsored by Fotodiox then I guess it’s your job to censor the obvious fact 😛
Blue ring* #autocorrection
Do you still need Metabones to change the F stop or Canon body to change it and then put the lens on this Fotodiox adapter? Otherwise, you can’t change the aperture…
No AF, no electronic communication like metabones?
What if it wiggles though?
You wiggle in the opposite direction.
Great idea great product except for one pretty big flaw it doesn’t look like you can change aperture on the Canon lens
Novoflex adapters have such à blue ring and who cares? Does it makes the stuff quality, does it even makes the photo? This concern for a simple ring colour is more suitable for any fashion gadget, don’t you think so Gab?
@admin: removing posts so easily and for such comments is not a good point for you as well.
While this seems like a good idea on the surface, it unfortunately means you’re stuck with shooting your lenses wide open with no DOF control. Not only does shooting wide open making focus its most difficult, it also gives you no access to the ‘sweet spot’ of the lens which is usually somewhere around f/8 or so.
Nonsense.
It’s true. This is a dumb adapter with no aperture control for ef lenses. It’s also been out for months. When I first saw this on sar I thought fotodiox came up with a new smart ef throttle adapter.
You can change aperture by mounting and dismounting on a smart adapter or canon body lying around but that’s hardly practical
My bad, you are right. At least the MD version will work fine.
Well boz was wrong about wide open. Not necessarily wide open, depends on aperture value of last use before dismounting.
Only really useful for Samyang and adapted manual lenses, then.
Well I use it on Leica r lenses adapted to ef. And contax.
Ef is the most flexible for adaptation.
Oh sorry u already said
I have been waiting for such ND adapters to be more widely
available. As for options, I am familiar with the excellent design of the ND
adapter from HolyManta, but it is quite a nice option to now pick up a simple
ND adapter type at such a price point. For now there are no electric contacts
for lens/body communication for the Vizelex ND Throttle, maybe in
the future. I am curious if there is any noticeable IR contamination introduced
on the higher-level settings of ND that could affect color rendition. It seems
a common issue for some ND’s and camera combinations. Maybe no additional introduced IR
contamination is wishful thinking at such a price point. I will have to test
that out compared to other ND’s at some point.
So…
1.
Price point = good
2.
IR contamination = unknown
3.
Starts at 2stops of ND
4.
No electronic lens/body communication (basically
“dumb” adapter but with ND… yea!)
Starts at one stop nd. Nd2 is one stop
almost perfect to go with samyang 14mm F2.8 ! i just hope the built-in ND is any good. i hope they make a version that allows third party ND filter…
Controlling third party variable ND’s through the adapter would be tricky to do.
What I want is for holy manta to introduce fixed nd modules that can be slotted in and out. Too bad it seems they aren’t doing much these days. This bohus person has the advantage of scale
good point. may be they can do a pro version which comes with heliopan/B+w/hoya pro 1. i might even gamble and try to replace the stock ND myself…. none-the-less very welcome to innovative design.
What are the advantages of this vs screw on variable ND filters on the normal end of the lens of equal cost? Or, is this a better solution than 4×4 Lee type filters?
Price and convenience, maybe? One size fits all.
Convenience, compactness and speed.
Works with lenses that have a hard time taking front filters
looks like the best option, ironically, if you have a mixed set of Nikon AIS and M42 lenses and an A7S that benefits from throttling down the brightness
And contax and Leica r and Olympus om… All convertible to ef
Worthless without aperture control.
Besides, it increases the filter stack height, introducing abberations,
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/06/sensor-stack-thickness-when-does-it-matter
Please… you’re over playing that filter stack blah blah card. Read that article properly, he doesn’t say it happens all the time. This is a dslr lens and the light cone is fairly tubular. You’re using these lenses wide open and there will be plenty of aberrations to even notice anything from the filter.
Speak from applied knowledge… not bits and pieces you’ve picked up from here and there.
No aperture control ? Whyyy ?
Because Canon is electronic aperture control only? Can use manual lenses though and F mount has aperture control.
I meant there is no aperture within the adaptor + no electronic connection …. Which means that you have to always shoot at f4 with this adaptor…
I hoped that they would put an electronic support for their adaptors.
Will there be a Nikon version?
Already is for m43’s so presumably yes. Might even be for E-Mount as well, but not on B&H yet.
Yes, been searching ebay and amazon and cannot seem to locate one!!
http://www.fotodioxpro.com/vizelex-nd-throttle-adapter-nikon-g-lens-to-sony-nex-emount-lens-adapter-with-built-in-variable-nd-filter.html
Thanks!, guess i should have reviewed the mfg site first!!
No worries. When I saw there was a m43’s one I assumed there would be for Sony E.
An A-Mount one would be nice as well.
A-mount can be built in
Phillip bloom and Dan Chung did report some extra ghosting from this adapter, as I myself also found a few months ago. But it was acceptable to me for videography, outweighed by convenience. For photo it’s less forgivable. But Maybe fotiodiox has improved their glass.
Probably doesn’t even get close to the same kind of coatings you’d get on premo CPLs
Great concept, but the fact that there is no aperture control makes this a complete FAIL. Am is missing something? What were they thinking?
They were thinking “video” where people regularly shoot wide open but need a strong ND filter to get to a target shutter speed (usually 1/50s).
Is there a tripod foot for the adapter? Also, for shooting in bright sun and ND up to 16 stops would be useful