The seller of the Commlite Nikon F autofocus adapter for Sony E-mount contacted me and told me this: The adapter will cost $359 with international shipment cost included in the price.
Preorders will start on early January with first shipment by mid of January
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359 is our country phone code 🙂
++359 🙂
Mine is 666
Fak face
Bulgaria, now that I looked it up I wonder why there is no logic behind the numbering what so ever.
our country code is +852.
That will be too expensive……
it’s ok with me 🙂
Sorry, it’s unclear to me if these things are much use on the a7SII. Does anyone know?
Their web page says that it works on an a7S2, also one of the tests done in the video was done at f/11 and it still worked which means it was using CDAF on the a7R2 – the a7R2 switches to CDAF at apertures slower than f/9. CDAF is the same type of AF system as what is in the a7S2.
Appreciate the info!
The lens automatically stops down.
So autofocusing when the lense is set at f11 does not mean it will focus an f11 lens.
I found nothing in their documentation on whether the lens is open at time of focus and then stops down to take the shot or the adapter sets the aperture to whatever is selected when you select it.
Diaphrams have had auto stopdown for 50 years.
That’s true, but not all live-view based cameras use them. Remember, we’re not shooting with a mirror and judging the shot with our eyes anymore. I have a Canon commlite adapter which I recently used with a standard 50/1.8 lens, and when I took the lens off to put it away, I noticed the aperture blades were actually stopped down still. I’ll have to look into why that happened, as normally the blades are wide open in their resting position with that lens. Truth is, when I’m done at work I can go throw the lens with commlite on my camera and see if the blades look stopped down before the shutter. Its possible that I was in video mode when I shut off the camera, and that would be why it was locked at the aperture the whole time, but I get the feeling the live view works the same as in photo modes when the “live view effect” menu option is set.
Yes. It supposes to work on A7SII. However, we are not 100% sure at the moment. We had public testing on 27 DEC and there was only one A7SII user show up with a Sigma lens. We hope that the same A7SII user will show up again or more A7SII users join the next testing day. Then we will put up the supporting list afterward. Please LIKE our Facebook page to follow the latest news. Thank you!
Thanks! If you do one of those in New York City, I’m happy to show up with my a7SII and bundle of Nikkors. I have a lot including a couple of the 2.8 zooms and all but one of the 1.4 primes.
If there is sponsor for air ticket and accommodation, we will do. By the way, we tested it in Hong Kong and make it confidence for your purchase from the States. Please LIKE our facebook page and an online shop will be set up later. Thank you!
From the video description.
“Around 20 different kinds of lenses were tested on Sony A7 series. Unfortunately, another testing day need to be arranged becuase something was not right…… Here is the story:
We have been testing lenses 20 different lenses and differnt A7 start from 3pm, the initial thought is firmware version 2 is better than 3. By the end of the event, 2 guys came up. Both of them using A7RII and they share the lenses (24-70 and 70-200). Funny thing happened. Guy A was trying 24-70 and it was not working well (as you see from previous video, some machine gun sound comes from focus motor). Guy B tried the same adaptor and same lens. It worked amazingly unbelievable well!
Then we compare the camera setting page by page. Form the manu section 1 page 4, there is an option called “AF drive speed”. You won’t believe, the working one from Guy B was set to be “Normal” and Guy A was set to be “Fast”.
At the end of this video is the actual performance of 24-70 under “Normal” setting. I am sorry that I was too excited about the finding and forget the shot a video on 70-200. We will get it done next time!
And due to the “Normal” setting issue, some lenses did not do well during the testing should be working well and have better performance under “Normal” setting as mentioned about. We will find out later!
Please stay with us on our Facebok page. More information about this adapter will be announce. (including retail price, supporting list and firmware update method)
Thank you and Enjoy!”
Hmm, the A7RII has an AF Drive Speed setting? I should see if the A6000 has that too.
Are you saying that surprisingly, some lenses worked better (faster AF) with the drive speed set to “Normal” instead of “Fast”? This makes sense – same deal as the EF85/1.8’s issues with the Techart III – http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56692298 – faster AF motors actually can cause overshoot/hunting problems.
The good news is, if the camera’s AF drive speed setting does something, then the adapter supports that capability.
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The price is justified if the adapter can be updated frequently. Otherwise, it should cost the same as the canon one…
I think we learned yesterday that it is updatable via the camera body similar to how Sony lenses are updated I would presume.
I’m really surprised as the process for doing that is extremely “unknown” and depends on reverse engineering all of Sony’s USB-based firmware update process too.
I can see them being the first to pull off a Nikon adapter – but first Nikon adapter AND first third-party unit (not from a Sony contract manufacturer like Tamron or Zeiss) that’s body-updatable? I find this difficult to believe, and body-updates are one of those things where if they don’t get it perfect, it’ll result in a lot of bricks.
Even if it is updatable, there’s the big question of how user feedback can be fed back to them. Commlite has a track record of being a fire-and-forget company with no post-sales support just like nearly every other Chinese adapter company. Look at Techart – there’s no way to file bug reports with them, and when I filed a bug report through their reseller DEO, DEO said “we’ll pass that on to the engineering team” – no requests for clarification or anything. Two weeks later a new firmware update came out without fixing the issue, and at this point, it’s been almost 3 months since the last firmware update without either of the known issues (one of which cripples the adapter with many lenses) being fixed – http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56620518 or http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56692298
I can understand $360 with the mechanical complexity of Nikon adapters, but Commlite is going to find a lot of people hesitant to pay that price for something coming from them.
The only Chinese adapter manufacturer (and I think it’s a one-man operation) that actually seems promising right now is Steel Chen – even if his adapter were identical in capability to the Commlite AND more expensive, I’d recommend it when it becomes available simply because we’ve been able to communicate with him here.
I agree, and would be more inclined to buy the Steel Chen product or better yet a Metabones product despite it’s likely higher cost. Actually I don’t mind manual focus, I’d be happy with an adapter that just fed through the lens EXIF data.
Then you must be using A7S or A7SII, aren’t you?
Brick is horrible and that may cost a lot to fix it at the Sony service center. That’s why Commlite is being very caution on the firmware update. We are totally agree with Chinese manufacturer is not good with communication, including Commlite as you can see from their website. Therefore, we Sharpest Light is being a bridge between the user and factory. More information will be provided in “International” manner through us. Please understand that really takes a while to education someone or an organization to change their mind.
There is no double that Steel Chen has done a great job on the development. We have also warned Commlite on the work of Steel Chen and Commlite said “Don’t worry, he is still far away from mass production”. We hope that Commlite is not over-confidence. However, if you watch Steel’s video a few times, you will have a question that whether the aperture can be adjusted…..
We respect your choice and good luck!
Once again, everyone will be happy if this adapter will be cheaper. However, due to the construction with motor to drive the aperture, the cost will not go down to the level like EF-NEX. The list of supporting lenes will be posted together with the shopping cart on our Facebook page. You may check if your lenses is being supported before buying. Please LIKE our Facebook page to follow the news. Thank you!
0:05 A7II 70-300mm 4.5-5.6 IF-ED VR
0:58 A7II 18-35mm 3.5-4.5G ED
1:13 A7rII 35mm 1.4G
1:35 A7rII 35mm 1.4G AF-C
1:59 A7II 50mm 1.4G
2:41 A7II 50mm 1.4G AF-C
3:08 A7II 16-35mm 4 ED VR
4:01 A7II 16-35mm 4 ED VR AF-C
4:43 A7rII 17-35mm 2.8 IF ED
5:39 A7rII 24-70mm 2.8G ED
Thanks for your help again!
I need an adapter that works for Nikkor AF-D glasses, that’s where nikon’s gems at.
maybe not impossible, but it would need to incorporate a screwdriver motor. The issue with this is that it would be bulky and likely very power hungry. I guess nothing a battery grip couldn’t address.
Judging by the size of the Contax G AF adapter that have a screwdriver I don’t see why it would be any bigger than it is.
And about power consumption, it should perform better than LA-EA4.
I’ve never seen that adapter. Does it also have a motor to drive aperture?
Yes. It does! We will have some close up photos for everyone to understand it. The supporting list will be posted on our facebook page next week. Please LIKE us to follow. Thank you!
The model number of this adapter is ENF-E(1). What do you think if the number change to (2)?
Might as well get a cheap Nikon and use that as a second body. These adapters need to come down in price.
That will be a good news if the price could come down. However, we don’t see this happen at the moment. In compare with EF-NEX electronic adapter, this adapter has a motor to control the aperture which cost a lot more than just a PCB inside EF-NEX electronic adapter. We are going to take a few picture for everyone to understand more on it. Please LIKE our Facebook page to follow the news. Thank you!
I asked
Commlite if it will work with my 800mm f 5.6 Sigma.
The evaded my question.
Even Nikon’s moving away from supporting their own long lenses on their Nikon 1 adapter. Not sure of their reasoning on that.
That would be interesting to use Sigma 800mm on A7 series. Commlite would definitely want to test on it. However, one thing for sure, the performance for using Sigma lenses with this adapter is not good which is a result from previous public testing day. Commlite is now working on it and hope to get better support for Sigma lenses in next firmware update. Please LIKE our Facebook page to follow the news. Thank you!
Steel Chen is also working on a pdaf capable adapter and his is looking very promising.
His is still prorotype so will not be ready as soon as Commlite will.
Do you have any more specific knowledge about performance on long and/or sigma lenses, or about performannce with teleconverters ?
The findings of testing day on 27 DEC was….. Sigma is not working well with this adapter or A7 series. And no one show up with teleconverter. Hope that someone will come to our testing day next time. Also, Commlite is trying to improve the performance of long range tele. Let’s see what will come up next. At the moment, Commlite adapter supports both PDAF and CDAF.
Thanks…since niether Sigma 800 or 300-800 have built in stabilization the A7Rii would be the best camera to use them on if the adapter can be made to work.
When it comes out will it have the latest firmware, and will users be able to update firmware themselves ?
As told by the factory, launch date of mid Jan with not postpone. Personally, I don’t think there will be enough time to improve and supporting Sigma in this firmware version. By the way, who knows, maybe they have a breakthrough suddenly tomorrow. Please LIKE our facebook for latest information. Thank you!
Stock will come in mid Jan. Users can update by connecting the adapter through your A7 with computer. At the moment, A7RII with firmware version 2.0 shows the best performance. Please wait for our next update on our facebook page on Sigma lens compatibility. Thank you.
Thank you for the update.
Clearly the Commlite adapter will be available first, and I do not want my expensive 800mm sigma sitting idle. So I will probably be getting one as soon as available.
Since you are aware of at least one user that very much eants to use this particular lense, hopefully you will make sure that Commlite will at some point fully support it.
P.S. I have already downloaded version 3.0 firmware to my A7Rii. Is this more or less compatable than version 2.0 ?
If you still with version 2.0, stay with it and don’t update! Something wrong with it but not sure. The trade in price of version 3.0 is lower than 2.0 in Hong Kong.
Not totally sure what you comment means ?
Like many people I have already updated to version 3, and I am sure more people will continue to do so.
I do not know if there is even a way to go back to an earlier version.
There is no way going back. According to the last testing, version 2.0 performs better over version 3.0 with same camera model and same lens. Also confirmed with factory, the firmware of this adapter is based on firmware 2.0. So, if the problem fixed in version 3.0 bothering you, update it. If not, stay with ver.2.0 for a while. Nothing to lose.
The testing of these days found that correct camera setting will get good result on A7RII with same lens but different firmware version.
The first mass production lot will be firmware 2.0. The update is mainly on Nikon long range lens focus performance.
Tele converter is supported as written in Commlite’s documents. However, we are sure that performance of sigma lenses is the worst among 3 brands. That would take a while for Commlite to update the firmware. Please stay with us on facebook for latest update.
We agreee that Steel Chen videos are good and which are well prepared with pre-selected lenses.
It better focus a lot faster than that video shows for 360$… sorry but that’s a ripoff.