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The new Contax G to E-mount adapter with full electronic aperture and autofocus control is now available for sale at www.deo-tech.com. Original price is US$299 but pre-orders will get 20% off and there is a 1 year international warranty. Shipping…now!
Some early tests can be read on the Chinese Xitek forum.
May not all know that Contax lenses are actually made from Zeiss 🙂 Superb quality for a great price!
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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What language is that guy speaking?!
erm, let me guess, English? Perhaps you should get your hearing checked?
My hearing is fine, thanks for your concern. Are you sure that is English? Could be Chinglish, but I neither speak or understand the dialect…
Don’t be a dick, Dac.
Yes I am sure. Can you speak Mandarin Chinese?
You must speak it for sure, since you understand chinglish and the gibberish coming from that guy trying to sell people into something (presumably that adapter he keeps pointing at).
So no then, you can not speak Mandarin Chinese.
Next time show some respect for somebody who is speaking using a non-native language so that “we” can understand them.
He may struggle with English, you are just ignorant.
I may be ignorant, true that, but I would never sell you into something using reps that don’t speak your mother’s language adequate. In my humble ignorant opinion, that is minimal business courtesy for the consumer. If you and others stop waving that away, you might as well start learning chinglish or mandarin or orange or whatever dialect they speak in the far east, for you acknowledge contempt for correct communication and language use in detriment of your own basic human rights.
There’s no “may” about it.
It’s actually English with a heavy Hong Kong Cantonese accent, quite different from the Mandarin English accent if you’re familiar with them.
If they’re going to market this to the world, I agree that they probably should hire someone with better English. That’s not difficult in Hong Kong. These small tech companies often fail in the last mile — presentation.
But Dac, there’s something to be said for English as no longer “your” (whatever you are) mother language, but more like a global language no longer tied to the UK or the US or Canada. So I also think it’s good to be open to other accents — at least to the point that you don’t become frustrated and irritated.
In fact the (German?) admin Andrea’s English is often off. But there’s something about an Asian face speaking English in a funny accent that particularly ticks people off.
I am sure that non-English speakers get ticked off by ignorant people speaking English VERY LOUDLY at them, like it’s some sort of universal translator.
I wish I were intelligent enough to speak multiple languages. He did well. Fine example of Asian education beyond our lacking American system, which doesn’t even teach our own kids how to speak/read/write English properly.
You mean like using “true that”? 😀
Reading Dac’s comment below made me realize he or she is a European racialist who jumps at any opportunity to spread venom online – anonymously of course, and generalizing irrationally about the entire “Far East” with a bizarre mixture of fantasy and received images. Complaining about English accent was just an excuse.
Not just me that thought it then.
From someone who’s been to mainland China many times for work, I can honestly say that this guy did a good job. His English isn’t perfect but I was able to understand him fine.
My mandarin is TERRIBLE and would be so embarrassed to use it, so I applaud this guy for being able to do it, and having the guts to do it on camera!
No it’s clear that this Dac poster is a very ugly person inside and doesn’t even realize it.
As the world gets smaller people like Dac seem to get more and more fearful of people with different cultures and language.
It actually boils down to sales 101? 🙂
Go back to /pol/ , ‘muricafag
I hate to break it to you Dac but there are more people in China who speak English than in the rest of the world combined. So who decides what correct English is?
Yes, his English is very bad. but hey he is not a native speaker
I think i can still get what he is trying say. Isn’t that enough?
Please don’t be ignorant. I wonder if you can speak two languages.
Don’t watch, don’t complain, dic..problem solved for you. You think you can do better, go make a video showing your face and post it here. LOL
$299? for a adaptor?? or maybe $29.9?
If you think you can make one so cheaply then do it and undercut their prices. Put your money where your mouth is.
No adapter from china should cost more than 30$ since the humanoids making the things are worse off than middle age slaves (no working rights – less pay than one needs to eat and have a roof over one’s head) and all the cash goes to the communist party kingpins and/or hegemonies.
Make one then.
But half the things you buy in Europe are made in China.
…and the other half contains components made in China. 😉
wow, for a guy who does not speak Chinese language you know a LOT about their economical system, or rather you drew your conclusion from biased political viewpoint? I am no fan of comminism but admire the guy who singlehanded develop this adapter, put in a mini-motor in the adapter, has some sort of electronics/firmware crosstalk with the NEX without have the E mount protocol (is this the RIGHT ENGLISH word to use? I am no longer sure).
I agree it is not the Walmart 1.99 price tag you got used to, but if I can use it on my NEX-7 and 4 G lens, I will buy it.
I trust most of us come to SAR for rumors/facts about the technology, not ideology, ecnomics 101 or English lessons. Therefore please tolerate our detest against trolls.
“Crosstalk” refers to interference between signals destined for different recipients as in two sets of communicates talking across from one another, not as in talking across one line between the camera and the lens.
Make one for me too, dic. lol
your name should be dic, not dac..
If it could fit with FF Nex, you would think it is so cheap.
Have you seen the prices for other active adapters? Happy searching.
Looks as though it hunts a little, but excellent news and pleased to see the final comment on the specifications, that manual focus will be available in the final version.
If we do get a fullframe NEX and they can make a similar adaptor for that too, then these little Zeiss lenses will shine.
It will be better if the video shows how fast it can focus. $299 won’t be too expensive if the focus speed is acceptable. (Based on this video, it is not.)
Awesome!!!
Could a fullframe NEX now be any more enticing?
Good call! For those willing to deal with the soon to come price explosion on a dead lens system, that may not provide for manual focus option. But the idea is there, in essence.
The price of G lenses exploded a few years ago already…can’t imagine an expensive adapter’s going to make it that much worse.
Arguably though they are still somewhat under-valued compared to other Zeiss designed glass that works on more/more installed systems. If adapters become more reliable, affordable, and available I imagine the price will continue to creep up just as a lot of old lenses seem to be doing.
Not “just like using original sony lens”… unless it has a manual focus override. Though I applaud the efforts and bravado necessary for such innovation towards a dead lens system, I would hope it wouldn’t be crippled in the other direction, preventing any manual focus… which users of this level of glass, with peaking, would be more likely to appreciate.
The DEO-Tech website is stating that this is the Beta and that the final version will have manual focus: I’d agrea; I’d be far less interested if there’s no option to focus manually.
I think somewhere I read the developer (not the guy in the video, he is a business partner with the developer who, as far as I know, speaks no English, if that provides any comfort to Dac in terms of language purity) said that he is going to include the MF in the release version. Though that MF is also driven by the motor, while you can decide where to stop. At least that’s my understanding.
The website checkout system doesn’t work. They’re overwhelmed at the moment, it seems.
Could it be that they’ve reached that 60 quota already?
What’s up with the racism displayed above?
WTF?
I don’t think any online forum could be immune to this sort of behavior. He has his freedom of speech, as long as he does not promote hatred, which is a crime in most of the developed country.
I agree – show some respect people, and I am also much more interested in knowing how fast this will focus. There are some nice Contax G lenses out there.
Concerned that, though you may gain the use of a better lens, overall performance in real world conditions will decrease because of loss of vibration compensation. To me, a net loss under all but a few shooting situations (this isn’t the camera combo I’d take outside for landscapes, etc., but indoors where it would be a loss).
So are they saying the final shipping version will provide manual focus? Their copy is a bit confusing: “Manual focus is Enable (final version only)”
Does it let you focus to infinity?
Does it have a glass in the adapter? <<If so, does it multiply the focal length of the lens?
Thank you.
Existing adaptors already focus to infinity without any added glass.
The main difference with this version will be the electronics and the motor to enable the NEX to turn the screw drive focus in the lenses.
DAC – What are you so insecure about? No need to be so afraid, cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Can’t wait to add this to my collection!
Ive ordered one.
If its even half usable then my contax g system just doubled in value.
Nice.
I like it! I like it very much! I wish I’d bought some of those superb Contax G lenses when they were affordable 🙁
The adapter looks very good. However there is no electric aperture feature on it. There is no electronic aperture feature on any Contax G lens. Contax G user since 1995.
There couldn’t be electronic aperture. It’s a manual click ring.
EXIF however would’ve been nice but difficult and understandably not a high priority.
Yes, maybe what they mean is the aperture information is passed to the camera and recorded in the image.
I guess we will need to manually adjust the aperture value on NEX, just like when you use the Contax C/Y lens on a Canon camera. Worked for me.
That’s right. It works in both A and M modes. I bought my NEX-7 to use Contax G lenses and have no problems with this.
Geez…and I was wondering why the 90/2.8 sonar exploded in price…. It’s bc guys like you can stop talking up the contax-G series ;-). Can you just hold back a bit until I get a full set? Prices are getting kinda crazy!
This Mr. Not-So-Funny-Guy up there may have a hearing impairment or a lack of command of English language himself not to understand the Chinese rep., properly. His eloquence is by far sufficient to me to understand every word he says perfectly well.
Would love him to try his German/French/Spanish or whatever else, for a change. Wonder what funny accent he might be having.
Totaly did not catch anything the guy said… He seemed very happy though.
Should I make a transcription for all of you who didn’t grasp the contents? :-))