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I can imagine that some of our readers do own Canon lenses they would love to use on their NEX cameras. Until today you had no way to control the aperture of the Canon lenses using the currently available adapters. Kipon now provides a solution for your problem. they made an [shoplink 5561]EOS to NEX adapter[/shoplink] with built-in aperture control! You can find a review including image samples at the japanese website DC.watch (Click here). They tested the 50mm f/1.4 USM and 24-70mm f/2.8 Canon lenses.
If you have “Canon-friends” you might mention them the adapter to help them to buy a into the NEX system 😉
Check out current Kipon adapter auctions at [shoplink 5559]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
9 Responses
If the image is right, it’s a built-in aperture, and NOT a built-in aperture control. Which is really not that great, can lead to weird vignetting and uneven bokeh.
Also, the exposed aperture blades are dust collectors that bring dusts right to the sensor…
this will not work.
Much more elegant solution would be electronic version of adapter that would “translate” aperture control signals from E mount to EF one. It should be perfectly possible as E-mount specifications are disclosed now and there’s a firm that converts Contax N Zeiss lenses to EF mount – both – aperture and AF work!!! See here:
http://en.conurus.com/index.html
They should call it “NEX adapter with built in VIGNETTING control” because that’s all that putting an aperture behind the lens is going to do.
An electronic control over the len’s aperture is still the holy grail. It can be done. No one with the resources to pull it off has tried yet. I would be happy with manual aperture control. Camera controlled aperture would be awesome.
I would even be happy with an aperture control ring and no coupling to the NEX system except for power.
I agree the placing of the aperture at this point is optically naive. Sort of worrying really.
I wish they would allow othe companies to do the same for alpha cameras.
pls tell me where to get this adapter Kipon EOS to NEX adapter with built in aperture control.
It does in fact work. The aperture ring will control the depth of field. Wide angles will vignette more than tele. One other thing to consider is that the max aperture on the lens decides the aperture not the adapter. Yeay duh but I mean that if the lens is 2.8 the aperture ring will be around 6 for the first stop down. If the lens is 1.8 the aperture ring will be around 2 for the first stop down.