It’s definitely a Speed Booster day! A couple of hours ago I wrote you about the new A to E-mount Speed Booster coming in August. And now Metabones announced a Nikon G to NEX adapter too! it’s already in Stock and shipping on their store (Click here). Now you can tell your Nikon friends that they have no excuse anymore to switch over to the NEX system with their G lenses 🙂
And another new product is in Stock for the first time: The Rokinon 16mm f/2.0 for A-mount ships now at BHphoto (Click here).
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I wonder if someday they would make a Speed Booster for the A-mount only camaras…
They won’t, because it’s not possible – the A-Mount flangeback distance is too long. Most mounts cannot be adapted to A-Mount even without focal length reducing optics because of that, and with such optics the resulting flangback distance gets even shortened. That’s why those adapters never were made before the rise of the mirrorless systems. The best one can hope for is a future E-Mount camera which would make full use of A-Mount lenses, including stabilization, and could adapt all kinds of legacy lenses with or without focal length reduction.
I want a Konica AR speed booster. all those made available today are for mounts with too large autofocus lenses which look weird on a NEX.
try contax zeiss lenses. many of them aren’t too big. and the speed booster itself is smaller than the canon – nex one.
I see that a site has published a video of the new Canon 70D focusing. I don’t think it’s faster than my NEX-7 + speedbooster + Canon lens in a high contrast situation.
70d lags behind most mirrorless even with the new af
Canon fail – My NEX7 is faster. That pretty much sums it up.
Is this thing really only compatible with the newer G lenses or did Nikon contrive a new lens mount without me noticing? So many misleading post titles lately 😛
Oh well, my apologies. Seems like Metabones themselves are calling it Nikon G to Sony E. Weird.
Please acknowledge your tipsters…
Looks like their main page advertises this as g AND f.Which I take it means d lenses on f mount work too.
I take it the rokinon 16mm wont work well with upcoming speedbooster?
rokinon 16mm is for APS-C .You need full frame lens .
Thanks – that’s what I thought.
It will make nice circular instagram posts!
hey, that’s something! 🙂
Hope there will be a speed booster system with exchangeable mount soon, quite a waste to buy another $400 booster for every different mount while there’s only minor differences.
Maybe their competitors could come up with this!
Nikon G and F to E-Mount??
Does this mean the NIKON G Lenses (which have no iris ring) are supported with the build in aperture control of the FS100/700?
Like the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm?
Cheers Tob