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Kipon announced the release of two new “Speed Booster” adapters for EOS and M42 lenses. The adapters cost 20,000 YEN (150 Euro). They have a focal length reduction of 0,7x which means a 50mm FF lens will become a 70mm lens on the MFT camera using the adapter. These adapters will be soon for sale on [shoplink 55931 ebay]eBay (search link here)[/shoplink].
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Now, I wonder how good those are. Not exactly expecting Metabones levels of performance here. But if the M42 one would be decent, I’d pick that up, as I got some M42 lenses that I play around with from time to time.
Metabones are Chinese too y’know…..
I know. So what? They still make the best focal reducers as far as I know (they don’t make one for M42 lenses thought).
That’s why any other quality reducer with m42 support is quite interesting.
And is that price correct? I see their other focal reducers are much more expensive than 150 EUR. They’re in the 280-380 EUR range on Amazon, which is not as attractive. Well outside the “hey, that could be interesting, I’ll buy that to have a bit of fun with legacy glass” kinda impulse buy range.
You are generally better off buying china adapters from ebay. There are two types of afapters the orginal (metabones) and these knock offs. The Knock offs come in varied quality levels. I recomend Metabones.
and what is the difference between the two ? (could not get anything about that on the translated page).
Fit – one is EOS-m4/3 and the other M42-m4/3.
No other difference.
Not electronic, so rather overpriced for a simple lens.
And considering they’re only x0.7 not x0.5, one may as well use a dumb adaptor.
x0.7 is not bad, as it turns 35mm lenses into a “nifty-fifty” equivalent on MFT. And you don’t have to worry about vignetting and extremely poor corners.
And those 35mm lenses can be had for cheap. A lens like Super Takumar 35/2 (a bit more expensive than your average legacy glass) might be an interesting one to shoot with an adapter like this, as it would become 25mm f/1.4.
Also, my Pancolar 50/1.8 would become 35/1.2, which should be pretty nice for wider portraits. The lens itself is actually pretty decent wide open, so should perform fine.
If this adapter turns out to be below 200 EUR like suggested here, I might be interested. But if it’s 350 like most others, I won’t even bother.
Kipon is a solid name. Curious how they would compare to something like the Lens Turbo focal reducers from like R.J. and/or Zhongyi/ZY Optics.
Yes, I’d like to see a comprehensive focal-reducer test comparing all the different brands. Some time ago, I’ve seen a comparison that came out with Metabones being the best, followed by Zhongyi/Mitakon by some substantial margin, and two or three others else not really worth the trouble. Kipon-BavEeys wasn’t there yet, if I remember correctly, and think both Metabones and Zhongyi/Mitakon now have new, improved versions of their adapters…
Are they any better than all the $90 (or below) Chinese adapters for m43? Or is it the same optics?
Why it had no AF?
They(kipon) doing well on EF-M4/3 adaptor.
If they’re optically much better from the really-quite-decent Lens Turbo II or R.J. focal reducers, then that’s a fair price. If not, they’re just another generic product.
Metabones are clearly a step above in optical quality, but you pay a substantial price premium for it.
They already being sold on eBay, but the prices are much higher than 150 euros, for just a piece of glass.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Baveyes-Focal-Reducer-Optic-Adapter-EOS-Lens-Micro-Four-Thirds-M4-3-Body-/121763237170?hash=item1c59a78d32
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Baveyes-Focal-Reducer-Adapter-M42-Lens-Micro-Four-Thirds-M4-3-MFT-Camera-/111775125976?hash=item1a065111d8
310 or 290 is quite hefty.
Amazon.jp and Rakuten.co.jp where Kipon themselves link to, does sell ’em for 22.800 JPY, which comes down to roughly 190 USD/165 EUR. Wouldn’t say it’s ‘just a piece of glas’. I mean, there are lenses costing in the thousands… does take some engineering and quality. And these are supposedly designed in Germany…
Metabones still awefully more expensive… still some cheaper options availlable. But for me I don’t see much use for EF mount without smart aperture control (electronics). Not much love for Canon anyways. I’d rather get Nikon mount lenses and adapt ’em to either native mount Nikon DSLR like the D5300 or with a simple booster or non-glass adapter featuring a simple aperture ring to either E-M1, GH4 or BMPCC.
I might actually pick up one of the M42 to M43 ones. I’ve got quite a few crazy Russians in my collection which I’m sure wouldn’t mind a little boost to their cooky character… of course, for the 22.800 equivalent, not for 300 bucks.
no electronics? Kipon keepin on
I suspect the first lens adapter manufacturer that comes out with an affordable model offering full electronic coupling, AE and AF, will reap great rewards. Given current prices for dumb adapters and most photographers’ reliance on their camera and lenses’ automatic features, these dumb adapters seem like overly expensive novelties.
Does that mean that the EOS adapter would allow me to mount a lens like the Canon 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6? If I was to mount it, what would be the equivalent focal length in FF terms? Would it be 10mm x 1.6 x 0.7 = 11.2 mm at the short end, or in other words 22 mm on a u4/3 system?
I find there is a shortage of good wide angle lenses for u4/3 that can have filters added to it. the 7-14mm’s are fantastic but a filter can’t be mounted. The 9-18mm is more of a wide angle kit-lens optically from my experience.
read the news: a 50 FF becomes a 70…
The formula is f-lenght x 2 x .7
yeah but I’m talking about an APS-C lens, not a FF lens.
Multiply by x0.7 to get real focal length. This turns 10mm into 7mm. Now, apply a crop factor, which is 2 in case of MFT. And you have 14mm equivalent in FF terms.
But your EF-S lens won’t work well with a focal reducer. It will vignette a lot, maybe even not cover the 4/3 sensor. An x0.7 focal reducer makes the crop factor of MFT to be 1.4. Canon EF-S lenses are designed for x1.6 crop sensors.
10mm is 10mm in any camera. Apply the MFT crop and multiply by the reduction. 10mm*2 (MFT) *0.7 (Speedbooster) = 14mm
Better than the overrated Metabone$ crap…