Metabones (Click here) just released the new Canon FD Lens to Sony NEX Speed Booster. The price is $399. The FD system offers a large range of good quality and relatively cheap lenses you can buy on [shoplink 22286 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The most “famous” lens is the [shoplink 22287 ebay]Canon FD 50mm f/1.2 (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
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couldnt you just get the dapater with the smallest DSLR flange and adapt the longer ones onto that? like if you had the canon EF speedbooster already and just put an FD to EF adapter onto it
you can’t do that on all the FD mounts because there are pins that go out behind the mount, so most FD to EOS adapters that you want infinity focus withing cutting that pin off would have a piece of glass (which normally isn’t very great IQ) in it
if anything, just buy a FD lens and get a A7/A7r 😛
and I got a 55mm f1.2 FD S.S.C, very sharp and contrasty, well worth the money and looking forward to use on a sony FF!
isnt a speedbooster kinda useless on a FF?
Who said it is for the a7/r?
Canon to Sony nex, so apsc
Not exactly I think it give better dof and a lower f stops. You’ll have to try it to be sure.
Thats better dof OR extra f stop ….you cant have .
Both…….you also still cant edit sar comments!
can me use this on ff, what will happen?
Speed Booster is specifically for APS-C NEX, not FF FE. If you use it on A7 or A7R, you’ll have to use it in crop mode or probably get unacceptable amounts of vignetting or even a distinct circular mask.
Or turn your brain on and use a straight adapter with no optics as they would be completely unnecessary on the full frame camera as this is a full frame coverage lens.
But wouldnt it give me better DOF?
Maybe almost as good as a medium formart or a leica camera.
Speed boosters increase DOF, it says it on the website. Go check it out.
it reduces the image circle of a lens
so you get nice black vignettes on FF
but hey if you want to waste $400 on it, go for it
This should work on for FE:
Some MF lens -> MF mount to Canon EF adapter -> Canon EF to E SB (doesnt necessarily have to be Canon EF)
There is nothing that dictates that you have to use an FF lens in front of your SB. Just use a lens that covers more than FF to get rid of the vignetting. I don’t know how it impacts IQ though.
i also have the 55 mm 1.2 ssc canon – that will be sweet on the a7r, i hope so 🙂
does anyone know what the on/off ring on the sb does? is it to release the lens?
Not on this adapter, FD lenses release from the lens side, not the camera side, much like OM lenses.
It may be the aperture link up.
FD lenses has a lever on the mount side that needs to slide into position for the aperture ring to work.
My current FD adapters both has levers marked “open” and “close” that does exactly that. In “open” mode, the lens stays open no matter how you position the aperture ring.
FD lenses are kinda fiddly that way, and it takes some practice to be able to change lenses quickly. Sometimes I mount a lens and discover a little while later that I can’t change aperture. Admittedly, this is user error, but it’s easy to do.
There are other mounts out there.
Will these work with FL lenses?
This is a waste of time and totally foolish for anyone to give a “rat’s ass”. Moving along as Sony totally F#$%ed current APS-C users. So pissed, so pissed… F&$% Sony and their BULLSH$% crappy, fuzzy, overpriced lenses. Rant over, let the flames engulf me in burning nirvana.
How are the ones on ebay compared to metabones? Im planning to get one for my minolta MC/MDs.
Particularly for E and FE mounts – with very short flange distance – mechanical precision is critical. Someone remarked that any slop in the adapter interface will introduce unintended tilt effects.
The eBay examples for less than ~€40 can be hit and miss. I have tried several for m43: FX-m43 and 43-m43 worked wonderfully, OM-m43 was a wobbley joke.
More spent on the Metabones (Fotodiox maybe too) will save money in the long run.
“Optics designed by Caldwell Photographic”
Forgive my ignorance, but why does an adapter between two FF systems need an optical intermediary? And…doesn’t this mean that no matter the quality of the glass you put it front of it, it can’t possibly be any better than the quality of the optic in the adapter allows it to be.
– Captain Obvious
Thanks for reply. Have someone seen anyone comparing these NEX speedboosters in particulary the Minolta one?
The one teset that I’ve seen and can confirm is that ALL of these adapters result in a heavy hit on the image on the edges of the frame at large apertures – say f/2.0 and larger.
I have the Metabones speedbooster and if I use the 50mm Canon f1.8 on it you can see how the image deteriorates when trying to focus on an image near the edges.
To get great image quality across the frame you have to stop down to about f/2.8. Anything less will only give you great image quality in and around the centre of the frame. This might be desirable for some shots but it’s irritating when the person’s head is mushy whilst their body has nice colour and contrast.
YMMV.
Swapping lenses with this adapter … causes no dust to come onto the sensor. No need to worry about cleaning sensor. Depth of field just like with FF and gain in f/stop. Hmmmm…
LOL, too late.
They’ve also released a “normal” Canon FD Lens to Sony NEX adapter. The 1 Mio. $ question: IS THIS NORMAL ADAPTER COMPATIBLE WITH FULL-FRAME CAMERAS AS SONY A7 ??? Does somebody know??? Thank you, Steph
Well, probably yes because e-mount is e-mount.
So with a normal adaptator, you can use cropped Canon fd lenses on Sony a7/a7r (with apsc mode on).
Thanx gugu!
But I’m not interested in using them in the crop-mode. I want to use them in full-frame mode (as intended since they are covering ff). Anybody?
The Speed Booster is only interesting for Sony NEX crop cameras but not the new Sony A7/A7r!!!????
OKOK everybody seems to know but doesn’t wanna tell :o) Will ask metabones then if the “normal” adapter works with the FF A7…
Sony Australia is shipping the A7/R a Metabones Adapter of choice. They demoed the EF mkiii in Melbourne VIP launch event
Yep, the EF MKIII adapter is also compatible with the FF Sony! But that’s explicitely advertised! And that’s an expensive smart adapter with auto-crop support. i hightly doubt that the “dumb” 99$ FD adapter will have this feature.