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Metabones Speed Boosters are having quite a success. But for the first time we will also have a second company offering a similar, cheaper (and likely inferior optical quality) product. The first and long-awaited Lens Turbo for Micro Four Thirds will be announced next week! It will be a Nikon Ai to MFT adapter. Unlike previous info we got that adapter will still have the first generation lens design as the [shoplink 43003 ebay]NEX Lens Turbo (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. But it will have improved coating to reduce the “blue spot” issue.
A Lens Turbo for Canon EOS EF and Canon FD lenses will come as next in early 2014.
Example of how it works: If you buy the [shoplink 43005 ebay]Nikon Ai 55mm f/1.2 for $250 on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink], stick it on the Lens Turbo and you get a f/0.85 aperture and f/1.2 alike depth of field.
P.S.: All Nikon Ai lens auctions on [shoplink 43007 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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I’m surprised they did not release a Canon mount version first. Everybody else releases Canon first, Nikon second and everybody else whenever. Not that I am complaining, I also have a Nikon, just not any old Nikon glass.
Yep Totaly stupid even bothering to make loads of diffrent versions…
Just make an EF one – this mount can pritty much be converted to whatever you need with cheap adaptor rings.. seems odd to go for anything else – same for all adapted lenses, get an FD adaptor, then get adaptors for that to the mount you want way less crap to carry when taking 2 or more different lens types with you!
sorry i ment FD mount being the most versitile!
I believe these things are limited to f/1.0 so f0.85 wouldn’t be possible.
The complaint is not that m43 doesn’t have enough DOF, but the contrary: that you can get a narrower DOF using larger sensors.
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Anyway, this is an exaggerated problem. For portraits, one need to stop down the mZuiko 45/1.8 to 2.5-2.8 anyway to get more than the eyes in focus (e.g nose tip, ears). And the various 0.95 lenses get very narrow DOF even on m43.
+100
On head shots perhaps, but full height portraits usually require more.
“need” is a theoretical leap I am not willing to take. Full body portraits allows for greater opening, which is not to say the faster speed translates de facto into better portraits.
m4/3 Speed Booster for Canon EF/EF-S lenses with electronic contacts is suspiciously late. That’s the one worth waiting for.
M42 version please! take my money!
Waiting for M42 version as well, but i believe its possible to get the EF version and add M42 adapter on top
FD will work as well m42/fd adapters are available.
Same here.
M42 +1 = M43 (one for me too)
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/09/there-is-no-free-lunch-episode-763-lens-adapters
Read the above and you may reconsider your outlook on adapters without optics as well. Roger at Lens Rentals is VERY experienced and thurough with his assessments on equipment. I find his take on thingss to be very scientific and relevant.
While I think all of the points he made are absolutely valid, in real world use I don’t think this is a major problem. I use many Canon FD lenses and they are all very sharp across the whole frame.
Don’t buy these things. Only adapters without optics are any good. Just step back a little to get the same field of view, rather than ruining your quality.
Those already having a collection of legacy lenses can judge on their own..
All generalizations are wrong.
It is a real booster for lenses that are not any good to begin with. I was actually told by a dealer in a respected shop that these things magically increase the light. While no one seems to like TCs, these boosters for some strange reason became a hype.
To Sk0gr – they ‘increase the light’ by taking the amount of light focussed on a bigger image circle (APS-C or FF) and focussing it on the smaller m43 sensor.
will Nikon 50 1.8D and G fit this adapter too?
Is it gonna work with pocket camera ?
Yup, this will be magic with the BMPCC. And because of its smaller than normal sensor for m4/3 the BMPCC can even have all APS-C lens work with a speedbooster on the BMPCC!
Guys, has anyone else heard that they’re not making a Nikon G to m4/3? At least that’s what they messaged me on FB.
Sooo……. is well into “next week” now, where is it?? :-/
Oh wait, never mind…. I see it here now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitakon-Lens-Turbo-Focal-Reducer-Adapter-Nikon-Ai-s-to-m43-Black-Magic-camera-/171187170171
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitakon-Lens-Turbo-Focal-Reducer-Adapter-Nikon-Ai-s-to-m43-MFT-Olympus-camera-/171187168641
Now hopefully they’ll make a Nikon G to m43 Lens Turbo too?