People owning the VG900 Full frame NEX may be happy to know that they can use the soon to come Contax G to E-mount adapter with full autofocus on their camera. It covers the full Full Frame image circle. It is also a good news for the future NEX-9 FF camera because this may be a cheap alternative of the expensive Zeiss FF NEX lenses that will be announced along the camera. (Source: www.deo-tech.com).
Reminder: Here is the list of great G lenses with links to eBay price:
Hologon 16mm; 1:8 on [shoplink 16235 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] -> (will not work on the DEO TECHART adapter).
Biogon T* 21 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16236 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] -> (will not work on the DEO TECHART adapter).
Biogon T* 28 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16237 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 35 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16238 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 45 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16239 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sonnar T* 90 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16240 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Vario-Sonnar T* 35 – 70 mm; 1:3,5-5,6 on [shoplink 16241 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Amazing stuff. I really hope SONY are paying attention to these developments, and fix the sensor problems in any new FF stills camera to really take advantage of these lenses.
Without IBIS onboard the NEX people can always buy Canon and other lenses with inbuilt stabilization. Sony will not sell lot of A-mount for FF NEX.
+1
It shows that Sony is an electronics company in a business where optics matter as much as the electronics, if not more. Unfortunatelly
Yes yes, just like Olympus. Oh wait.
See that picture of the vg900, you’ve got that massive circular area around the lens & all the recording electronics at the back. I really wonder how Sony are gonna make a NEX camera without it turning into nearly dlsr proportions
In a similar way they did the RX1 in DSLR proportions
Great news Andrea, I mailed you for this problem and here it comes! Great lenses on FF NEX will be amazing, definately worth hoping into the Nex train, Alpha might be good, but Nex has too many posibilities, its an endless world that I want to explore.
Any video sample?
Awesome! Not surprised by the news but very glad to hear that this works. Looking forward to more reviews on this new adapter.
Is this AF only or does it also have a manual focus ring also? As I understand the Contax G lenses were AF only but there are other adapters that lets you manual focus the lens.
Found the answer on youtube. It will have a “provision” for manual focusing. Whatever that means.
It can acheive manual focus by wire, sort of like the current E mount lenses.
I think people overestimate old lenses. I was a big fan of old lenses too, but I have to admit after testing many lenses, that new lenses outperform old lenses, period. There is no point of using Zeiss Contax or even old Leica lenses, the new Zeiss or Sony are much sharper, with less aberrations, etc. Do your test.
Correct. I bought a lot of old lenses too but nowadays you cannot trust the sellers anymore. Bewre of fungus when you buy old lenses. I bought a couple of lenses over the net that I could bin right away even if I asked a numer of questions about the condition every time…. A lot of people are not honest anymore or too ignorant. I never had problems though with newer lenses (and you onla seldom hear about problems regarding fungus with newer lenses). And old lenses can also suffer from separation so eiter you give it to a repair shop or try to do the canada balm replacement on your own. And last but not least old lenses often have scratches or quite some dust inside. Although some glass is very nice I regret that I bought so many old lenses…
I think people overestimate old lenses. I was a big fan of old lenses too, but I have to admit after testing many lenses, that new lenses outperform old lenses, period. There is no point of using Zeiss Contax or even old Leica lenses, the new Zeiss or Sony are much sharper, with less aberrations, etc. Do your test.
Yeah I know, I had heard many great things on the Minolta 28-135mm f4-4.5 lens and I was over the moon when my friend loaned me a pristine copy.
However on comparing it to the 18-55mm kit lens I found that while sharpness was very similar the contrast on the kit lens was much better than what the Minolta was capable off.
I found lower contrast to be a common issue with most old optics. With newer lenses being optimized for higher MP cameras I would wager that most of these optics will outperform most reasonably priced optics pretty easily.
I will concede that MF lenses have their own charm in their impeccable solid build and finely damped focus rings which is a pleasure to use.
Yes, Enrique/Brenden I want everyone to believe you guys totally correct. As long as plenty people believe Sony lenses blow away old Zeiss or Leica lenses, I can keep getting the good stuff at reasonable prices. Ignore the T-coating on the Contax Zeiss G lenses giving trick contrast. Ignore the high MTF of Leica lenses. Nothing here folks, keep moving along.
Well, actually these Contax G lenses are not that old. They’re from the 90s, and at that time, totally smoked the offerings from Nikon or Canon. I have the Contax G 35 f2 and 90 f2.8. While the G35 f2 certainly has issues with electronic sensors and has lower contrast and resolution at large distance, the G90 was a absolute winner, topping all other lens that I’ve used to date in sharpness and contrast, including Canon 300 f2.8L and 70-200 f2.8L, as well as the well respected Canon 85 f1.8 at f2.8. The only issue is purple fringing which can be corrected in post and the quality of bokeh is only mediocre, but at some $200 to $300 it is a great deal.
I’m more and more happy that i snagged one of these adapters on pre-order and that I’ve already got the 28/45/90 trinity 🙂 Looking forward to this time next year when we should have a FF NEX 😀