Nikon F to Sony E Adapter – with Autofocus & Stabilisation
Our friend Matt Granger (website here) posted the world’s first hands-on review of the Nikon G to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter. Please keep in mind that what you see here is a prototype and has no PDAF support which will be added soon too. So yes, autofocus sucks for now, but it’s a start. I am sure the final version will be much faster and maybe in a year or so we will have very useable ones. A good news for those folks owning a lot of Nikon glass!
The adapter will be sold by end of this year by [shoplink 38429 ebay]Commlite on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The same company alreayd makes a “decent” electronic AF adapter for [shoplink 38430 ebay]Canon EF lenses on Sony E-mount (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Isn’t commlite causing focusing issue on Canon lens in previous tests? With this the camera really is going to weight the same with Nikon bodies.
Thank you Commlite. Let’s get this finished ASAP. I am sure the market will be very good for this adapter, if they can make it focus accurately with PDAF. Blazing speed is not really necessary, and accuracy should be the priority. As an A7RII owner with a fair amount of Nikon glass still in the cabinet, I can’t wait to get my hands on the finished product.
I think compatibility with other PDAF cameras would be a major, specially for the A6000.
Dear Nikon friends… enjoy your Nikon glass on a genuine Nikon camera. It’s been demonstrated numerous times that D800 series is just as sharp as a7rII, without the issues.
Don’t give up your excellent native mount AF performance.
Don’t give up your elegant flash system, and all the third party support is enjoys.
Don’t give up your professional ergonomics with quick AF selection and ability to operate with gloves.
Don’t give up your battery life.
Don’t give up your vast rental capacity.
Don’t give up your pro support.
You’re in for a big surprise if you think Sony EMount provides solutions. Buying into Sony forces users to ask more questions. But you won’t find any answers.
Stick with your brand for a little while longer and wait until Nikon answers the mirrorless market with a more professional solution. One that can only come from a long standing camera company with close working relationships to professionals worldwide for more than half a century. Not going to get that any time soon from a gaming company.
Remember history repeats itself… Minolta set the world on fire with AF… and did it with a full system designed from the beginning to support pro lenses. Still, after a couple of years, CaNikon answered with better solutions that served their loyalists well. Sony started EMount as a half baked compact plastic mount and tries desperately to evolve it into a pro grade status that it was never designed to become… which should be obvious by the lens selection five years later. By the time Sony develops a few more lenses, CaNikon will have answered the mirrorless market with serious performance that goes beyond counting megapickles.
Upon that day, there will be a whole-lotta EMounts for sale. Pick one up then for pennies on the dollar. Your dog could always use it for a chew toy.
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Signed:
Long time A/EMount user who is thoroughly disgusted at Sony’s lack of respect for their most loyal professional users. Can’t wait to get away from Sony EMount porrrn frenzy adhoc false promises of a toy pretending to be pro. The emperor has no clothes.
All of that didn’t stop them to be far behind in market share against other DSLRs, stop being naive.
well, nikon already answered to its lightweight-seeking customers: with its “nikon 1” line. The lamest camera line ever. Came from “a long standing camera company with close working relationships to professionals” 😀
” Minolta set the world on fire with AF… and did it with a full system designed from the beginning to support pro lenses. Still, after a couple of years, CaNikon answered with better solutions that served their loyalists well”
One should also remember that the major reason Minolta went down the tubes is that they got taken to the cleaners by ridiculous American patent law with biased enforcement by the american judiciary. Check out the Chevron – Minolta trademark case.
Please would you provide a link, as I can’t find any reference to this case.
I’m aware that Minolta had a fight with Honeywell over AF technology, but I’m in the dark over the one you say caused Minolta to go belly up. Indeed, I wasn’t even aware that had happened at all, given that Konica Minolta sold their functioning camera business to Sony.
I am afraid that, when it comes to mirrorless market, LG could be more of a threat to Sony. Nikon is good in making mechanical bodies, it cannot compete with Sony in electonics. What will happen is that in near future, canon and nikon will be known as good lens makers only, like zeiss. Camera market will be a playground of sony, fuji, samsung, panasonic, and very probably few more electonic giants like LG, Sharp or even some chinese companies on the rise.
I am a little confused. Nikon’s electronic part seems decent enough. Of course you can’t install something like multi-language keyboard app on Nikon like you could on Sony.
No electronic part in nikon is made by nikon. Now, put there an EVF which would probably be made by another company for them, and put away pdaf mechanism… What else is there for nikon to make, a chasis? I dont think they would be competitive with 80% of the camera made by third party manufacturers. They simply lack resources Sony has. Sony can make anything electronic you can imagine and put it in a camera. And electronic components will inevitably replace mechanic ones.
In other words, if nikon even somehow manages to make a camera identical to a6000 in specs and quality, it would cost $1800. Sony can sell it for $600 because they dont have to buy parts. They could put their own blue ray, 50” led screen, phone and spy satelite in it. Hack, LG can put as a bonus a refrigirator, hair dryer and blender if the market demands it.
I don’t believe that’s true. Business is business. If they can sell for $1800 they won’t sell it for $600, considering Sony is slowly going towards bankrupt.
Economy is not really that simple. Sometimes you need a cheaper product to make more money.
Does that matter if the job is done well enough?
It does. It doesnt affect the quality, but it affects the price. I am saying that nikons products would be more expensive than sony counterparts.
So you think it’s fair for D810 to be as cheap as a7r, regardless of noticeable better mechanical performances and other advantages?
I am not sure i understand what do you mean by that, D810 is $1000 more expensive than A7R. And its not that A7R has no advantages over D810…
What’s important for photography? Battery life, wide lens selection, speed, focusing performance, dynamic range, WB accuracy, you name it. In practice I think A7r could offer only part of what D810 can offer. But, on the other hand, A7r allows you to install multi-language keyboard and send photos to blogs. However it has nothing to do with photography.
It depends… Leica is the most expensive brand in the world, and great majority of their lenses is manual. So, in that regard, Sony has a wider lens selection… In example, sports or wedding shooter would surely benefit more from D810, but more casual or street shooters may go for a smaller form factor. Image quality and dynamic range are almost the same. EVF is a huge step forward in my opinion. D810`s biggest advantages are focusing speed and stronger body, other things are more a matter of taste.
But i wasnt talking about DSLRs…. Nikon`s DSLRs are great, no argue about that. I only said that Nikon couldnt compete with Sony in mirrorless market. I mean, just take a look at Nikon 1 cameras at $600.. They are leagues below a6000.
Nikon’s current mirrorless is not very good.
He has a rubbish screen behind him for a photographer.
I gave up on Nikon over 2 years ago already. Never looked back, but I did keep about a dozen lenses, so I am quite interested in this adapter once it is fully functional.
“Upon that day”, if that day ever comes I will still be a happy E Mount user, having had the A7r, A7S, A7II & now just got the A7RII. Each time I have upgraded it has cost me about 30% depreciation, from what I paid to what I sold for. I did sell each time just before the announcement of the new cameras, based on info from this fine web site. At the rate that Sony is innovating, especially in their sensor division, it is going to be a long hard road to catch up to them, for both Canon & Nikon.
I don’t think he understands what’s the difference between focus systems on those cameras, he didn’t point out that it only works in CDAF, and the PDAF is on the works, that should make it perform like the Canon one.
Testing with the A7II and A7rII was irrelevant in this case, specially since the adapter might not even recognize properly the A7rII without a firmware update.
When will a adapter maker produce a complete solution, it shouldn’t be hard to make an electronic adapter with drop-in filter even in focal reducer models.
All the Nikon v. Sony stuff aside (which is truly endless), does this mean that we could potentially see a Nikon F-Mount to M43 for someone who wants a GH4 as a backup body while retaining VR?
Following up – Commlite can’t seem to manage to keep a website up or maintain a Facebook page, so I’m turning those hopes down.
I fear that the 1 system may be the only response we Nikon folks get. Every time I lug my D800, I seriously think it may be time to switch systems….
I wish they gave it to someone else, this guy talks and talks and talks just show us the actual camera performance. Loves to hear his own voice I guess.
Is this auto focus adaptor available now to buy i have a F2.8 17-55 nikon lens G that i want to use on my sony A6000