As you may know Fotodiox launched the Vizelex Cannon Nikon G to E-mount adapter which is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here). But from first testings at personal-view we know that the quality is inferior compared to the (more expensive) Metabones.
The company reacted on the critics and announced on Personal-View that they are working on a new version:
Thank you to everyone that bought the Light Cannon. Fotodiox Pro realizes there are issues with the optical quality of the results, and is working hard to fix the problem.
If you are unhappy with the Light Cannon you may return the merchandise for refund of the product cost or exchange, if the return is made within 14 days of receipt. Refunds will exclude any return shipping charges.
However, if you decide to keep this first generation product, you will have the opportunity to receive the Light Cannon Mark II for FREE, when it becomes available in 3 to 4 months. The Mark II will address the optical quality of the glass with an upgraded optical element. The optical element will be completely redesigned to correct the color shift and to keep sharp focus across the image. There will be two versions of the Mark II: 0.5x (created for full-frame lens to open the aperture up 2 extra stops) and 0.7x (created for APS-C Sensors which will open the aperture up 1 more stop). As a Fotodiox Pro customer that tried our first version of the Light Cannon you will get your choice between the two. With the higher quality optics, the Mark II will retail around $199.95, but the optical quality will be better. In order to get the free Mark II, please contact info@fotodiox.com to request the code for a free Light Cannon Mark II when it becomes available for purchase. Please include your name, email, what website you ordered from, and your order number so we can reference your order. Thank you for your continued support for Fotodiox Pro.
More adapter news:
The High Quality (and more expensive) Metabones Speed Booster are now for sale via BHphoto too. And next month the new A to E-mount Speed Booster will be released!
Like the Vizelex also Chinese companies are selling a cheaper Speed Booster clone named “Lens Turbo”:
[shoplink 18692 ebay]Pentax K (here one Bay)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 22693 ebay]Minolta MD/MC (here one Bay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18694 ebay]Contax C/Y (here one Bay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18695 ebay]M42 (here one Bay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18696 ebay]Canon FD (out of stock out) (here one Bay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 18697 ebay]Nikon Ai-s (out of stock out) (here one Bay)[/shoplink].
Leica R will be released on 1st or 2nd week of July. Save this search in Slidoo to get notified when there will be an auction.
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I’m not excited by the “Light Cannon,” but the nex to a-mount speedbooster sounds like fun.
I hope it will come with good af functionality and a screw drive motor. 🙂
If they can achieve comparable optics to the sb it will be a winner. Else, waste of development time.
Thats just the thing. There was obviously no development time here. They just copied an idea that another company brought to fruition and they did a crap job of it. The Metabones Speedbooster was engineered by an experienced lens designer, and then brought to market with a high level of production quality as a finished and tested product. This thing is just thrown together will little thought of how the parts work together to give light an unobstructed pathway to the sensor.
I mean, I can just look at it and tell is crappier then my Speedbooster. BTW, here is my C/Y speedbooster on flickr. I hardly ever take this thing of my camera now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8539414@N07/sets/72157633126249795/
Nice photos, especially the macro shots.
Thank you 🙂
looking forward to the A to E speedbooster, if it works well enough, I don’t even think I need a FF NEX
I’m still hoping that some company provides a focal reducer with good optics and interchangeable mounts. Ofc, you could get an EOS mount adapter for which you can get several adapters to other mounts, but it’s still to long to use FD and such.
Anyone else think it is strange that on a Nikon G to NEX adapter, they use the word “Cannon” Then continue with version 2, repeating the “Cannon” name and add “Mark II”. So, not only are they duplicating an existing product with a cheap imitation, they are taking a spelling variation of another manufacturers name and version naming path.
Ha ha. Yeah, good point. That’s the Chinese for you though.
On page 5 of discussion on Personal-View Oedipax post some jpg examples of vizilex adapter compared to plain adapter. Examples full of bloom, lack of sharpness, absolutely unusable! How can they even start sold this obviously unfinished product? I don’t think people should trust in mk2 version of this adapter for +50$, but this is only my opinion.
I hope Mitakon will release A->E version and will fix blue spot issue.
Speed booster is overprice 600$ I bought zeiss 50f2 macro for 650 for second hand .
A second hand Speed booster will be cheaper then your zeiss 50f2.
And why compare an adapter to a lens? They have different purposes. It is like saying you can get a low-end SLR camera for less than $600. So your zeiss is overprice?