Finally! It is “rumored” that Metabones is about to launch the OM to MFT Speed Booster adapter on September 15. Many 43rumors readers own these lenses and finally we can sue their full potential! Really a great news for me too…I do own many OM lenses 🙂
P.S.: The Kipon Tilt AND Shift OM to MFT adapter is now shipping via [shoplink 40751 ebay]eBay China (Click here)[/shoplink].
OM prime lens links on eBay:
[shoplink 28869 ebay]21mm f/2.0 and 21mm f/3.5 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28870 ebay]24mm f/2.0 and 24mm f/2.8 and 24mm f/3.5 shift lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28871 ebay]28mm f/2.0 and 28mm f/2.8 and 28mm f/3.5 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28872 ebay]35mm f/2.0 and 35mm f/2.8 and 35mm f/2.8 shift lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28873 ebay]40mm f/2.0 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28874 ebay]50mm f/1.2 and 50mm f/1.4 and 50mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/2.0 macro and 50mm f/3.5 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28876 ebay]55mm f/3.5 macro lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28880 ebay]85mm f/2.0 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28881 ebay]90mm f/2.0 macro lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28882 ebay]100mm f/2.0 and 100mm f/2.8 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28884 ebay]135mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/3.5 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28885 ebay]180mm f/2.0 and 180mm f/2.8 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28886 ebay]200mm f/4.0 and 200mm f/5.0 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28887 ebay]250mm f/2.0 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28888 ebay]300mm f/4.5 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28889 ebay]350mm f/2.8 lens[/shoplink],, [shoplink 28890 ebay]400mm f/6.4 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28891 ebay]500mm f/8.0 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28892 ebay]600mm f/6.6 lens[/shoplink], [shoplink 28893 ebay]1000mm f/11 lens[/shoplink].
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Now if someone will offer me this price on a GH2, I would love them! 😉 Anyways, I think this is a steal for the G5! 🙂
I’m glad I jumped on the Amazon deal last fall $499 for GH2 and 14-42. Bought two, sold one camera and the two lenses. Got mine for $299. I’m surprised the deal didn’t last longer. I guess Panasonic sold out of their stock before they were deeply discounted.
@ ADMIN This thread used to have a G5 Lumix sale as the story, now it’s METABONES and all the comments below relate to the G5 … SNAFU?
Where are the whiners singing “oh but m43 is too expensiveeeee”
oh but m43 is too expensiveeeee
^^^ There’s one! Wow, how did you know that was coming? Dang, you’re good!
hey this would be an inspiration for a great poem from our resident poet -JChin! or also a musical composition: the “whiners blues”, you name it!
just bought one. sold my g3 a month ago for a lot more …yay!
O MG, Can you believe this is a semi-high end camera which announced in Sept.2012？
NEX-6 announced at the same time with similar position in NEX…
What a big difference in price.
“O MG, Can you believe this is a semi-high end camera which announced in Sept.2012？”
I can believe neither. It is not even “semi” high end, and it was announced Jul 18, 2012.
But it is certainly and incredible value now.
Official rubbish from Panasonic. I wouldn’t spend $5 on this piece of garbage
I wouldn’t spend 5 cents listening to your rubbish.
Panasonic will soon bring some new panecaca poweerzoom – I think this is the way it should be.
Sunday afernoon to have a m43 Cam in the jacket pocket!
PANASONIC I WILL WAIT FOR YOUR ANNONCEMENTS !!!!! 🙂
in my opinion:
it is better to have a good lens on the way than to have a pro lens at home…
pls make a nice design! 🙂
I would imagine this is the same Roberts Camera in Indianapolis, Indiana with whom I’ve dealt. They’re surprisingly good in the store.
it is Roberts out of Indy (carmel and Downtown Indy). They have a very large presence on ebay and as trustworthy as any place. I live in Indy and have bought from them for years. And have bought some of their daily deals on ebay as well . My GX1 was one.
They are also enormous in the used market (this listed auction is not used) – I like how they are forward thinking and made sure they were not just some great local shop that gets taken out by the internet
For all you haters
I own a 5D mk III a Fuji Xpro, some point and shoots, my iphone but ya know…
I put a nice lens on these cheap Panasonic bodies, put a piece of black tape over the ugly logo (on all my cameras)
and I love them. I also take very good professional photos and NOBODY asks me what camera they came from.
If you want to hate on panasonic or anything that is not the object of your camera consumer fetish, then proceed and have a nice day. I just purchased a very nice little cam body for $239 dollars. When I put my Leica lenses on it or even a panasonic lens (love the 20mm pancake) people hire me or buy my photos and i love creating the work.
Get a girlfriend or a shrink or both 🙂
This will be my backup camera, which will allow me to use the in-lens stabilization of the Panny 12-35 f2.8 while freeing my OMD to use those precious Oly primes.
Only one thing an 55mm F3.5 macro have not Olympus addad, but 50mm F3.5 macro and 55mm F1.2 (so is an very nice portraid lens) 😉
Also nice with out speed booster of course.
Olympus should have made that, not Metabones.
Agree.
Absolutely right. Olympus can be annoyingly stubborn. When they abandoned the OM system and went digital with 4/3, OM users cried out for a an OM -> 4/3 adapter. Olympus snootily stated that that would provide a sub-optimal experience because digital needed different types of lenses where the angle of light exiting the rear element was kept as near perpendicular to the sensor as possible and this would not be the case with older lenses.
Well Canon and Nikon went on the show them that the utility of being able to use film glass on digital bodies outweighed the airy technical perfection Olympus wanted to push. So ironically, you could get a OM -> Canon adapter but not a OM -> 4/3 one. The use of film glass on digital bodies became very popular with Canikon users and it really showed up Olympus’ attitude. I believe quite a few OM users abandoned Olympus and went Canon as a result.
Then of course, some third party manufacturers came up with OM-4/3 adapters and made Olympus look stupid. Then after awhile, Olympus finally climbed down off their high horse and also made an adapter – at a price!
I suspect the executives who were responsible for the corruption might also have been the same ones responsible for this stupid high-handedness. It seems that the current Olympus Imaging management are far less up-themselves and are listening to users closely – the E-M1 improvements and the 12-40/f2.8 prove that.
Even though I am primarily a stills shooter, I think Olympus are making a financially big mistake not improving the video capabilities of the E-M1. Just 24p and a better codec that didn’t fall over with movement in highly detailed areas would see a boost in sales of the E-M1 of at least 30%. They are beyond bonkers not to realise this. For the sake of Olympus’ profitability and economic survival, I really hope either the rumoured specs are mistaken or that Olympus will do something via firmware.
Meanwhile I have a case full of F2 OM glass that would welcome the Metabones with open apertures.
Olympus should have made FF camera, so you would have no need in Speed Boosters 😀
Excuse me I have an opinion.
Now the word “FullFrame” many people refer to the 135mm format camera. However if you say 135 is a “Full” frame , then how about the more larger format 120mm or 6×7 ?? Are they “Double/Triple/4 times Full Frame”?
I just know that full frame refer to systems which the image circle of the lens can be entirely cover the size of the image sensors.
Overfull frame? 😀
I just think that if we said 135 is already a “full” frame but there are still some more larger format.
Medium Format?
They did the stuck something similar on FF lens designs called them SHG and charge megabucks for them
I didn’t get this. The examples are with primes.
First question. Can I attach my 11-22/2.8 or 12-60/2.8 and get 1.8 at the short end? Second question. No IQ degradation? Hard to believe.
Those are not OM (full frame) lenses as far as I know.
You are correct in your statement, the lenses shown in the supplied images are not Zuiko Lens, I think they are only images to show a general explanation of the attached text. I would still like to see some genuine examples of what these can produce though as they are very expensive items.
Yes very hard to believe too. LOL 😛
I did contact Metabones (and you can too) and they confirmed that APS-C glass WILL work with the Micro 4/3 Speedbooster on Micro 4/3 body WITHOUT vignetting.
– Crop factor X2 and then Speedbooster X0.71
– Aperture is increased by one f stop
– IQ (MTF and sharpness) is actually increased
So yes, your 11-22mm f2.8 will give you about 15.6mm to 31.2mm f2.0 (not 1.8) with higher MTF and sharpness (because your are compressing the light AND resolution of the lens to the sensor)
But none of the Micro 4/3 Speedboosters have had any contacts so far, so no smart anything of AF or OIS. Which means that you may not be able to adjust aperture on the lens. They do have a manual aperture on the Speedbooster though.
you cannot use FT glass as it is designed to use the same size sensor. The idea of metabones is more akin to a magnifying glass reducing the suns rays to cover a smaller area thus brighter.So you need a lens designed to cover a larger sensor so that its image circle can be focused down to cover the smaller sensor thus gaining light
CRAP! That means OM glass will go up again on ebay.
Thank you. So, this gadget will not work with Zuiko lenses? And only with primes, or …? And what about AF?
No reason why it shouldn’t work with Zuikos nor any other lenses which they have produced a mount for, as regards zooms should but I’d expect to see a reduced IQ, though I wouldn’t consider using such a thing with a zoom.
Is there a rumored/annouced/existing speedbooster (or equiv) for m42 mount?
Yes, I’m waiting for an M42 mount as well. There are so many M42 lenses that would work great with the concept.
Doing the maths wrong or what?
50mmFF on m43 = 100 equiv no? then with speedbooster should be 70mm equiv?
So with my “rather boring unexpensive 50mm f1.8” I get a “(un)expensive 70mm equiv f1.2” right?
OM Does Not Equal 43rds!!
OM mount was well before the 43rds mount. So only OM lenses will mount with this adapter. People asking to mount 43rds lenses will not work.
Those are Nikkor lenses shown in the example pics. And the author’s math is a little misleading when he says “you get an exciting 24mm f1.0” What you really get is an exciting 50mm (equivalent) f 1.0. Nothing to sneeze at, but you end up changing the effective crop factor from the usual m43 2x to something more like the APS-C crop factor.
I confirmed with them a few months ago they’d be doing a Minolta adapter later.
So, my 55mm f1.2 can become a 78.1mm f0.852 ?
Woot woot, so my 50mm f1.2 OM lens will be a very sexy 75mm f0.95? Cant relly bo the math, but it must be close 🙂
That will be very cool to use… I hope I can get it before I fly on oct 1st
I have the Nikon G to m43 Speedbooster. It is all metal construction and has an adapter for a tripod. I have used with a 50 mm 1.8, 85 mm 1.4, 35 mm 1.8 and the 70-300 mm 3.5-5.6. It works very well with my EP2 and EM5. Focus is manual. There is an aperture ring in the adapter. I also used it with a Sigma 10-20 mm Nikon mount. I compared the image with another taken at the same spot with the Pana 7-14 and the field of view is almost identical. The adapter is over 400 USD but you can get faster lenses. Since the light is focused from the center of the lens, images are really sharp.