The holy grail of the adapters got tested at Dpreview. And they basically come to the same conclusion of other reviewers: “Image quality is very impressive, with results that compare exceptionally well against a full frame sensor. You do pay a small price in terms of corner softness and CA.”
If you have more questions about the adapter check out this FAQ on Metabones website. And the interesting news you can read on it is that “We will be looking into [shoplink 16763 ebay]Canon FD (lens here on eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 16762 ebay]Minolta MD (here on eBay)[/shoplink] and Sony Alpha in the future.”
UPDATE: SAR reader Vivek sent me a link to his super nice set of image samples with the Speed Booster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vivek-iyer/sets/72157632630886829/
The EF to E-mount adapter is now shipping via the Metabones website. To get notified when more adapters are in Stock on eBay save this search on Slidoo.
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yes, a mount!
The msost interesting thing that this does is to decouple one’s NEX interests from Sony’s full frame technology. Right now, it is hard to suggest other mirrorless systems for long-term photo/video. At this moment, I find it attractive to consider Canon full-frame tech to augment NEX, instead of Sony.
Lensrentals tested it too
Softness is okay imho, CA’s not so much…
CA is easy to fix in PP, softness isn’t.
Yes! Possible future a-mount support! Can’t wait to use my Min 35/2!
We should have a reviewer compare the speed booster on the nex 7 to a regular adapter on the vg900, that way we can see how it compares to full frame e mount!
IMHO best “reviews” of SpeedBooster so far, must say that even with some hickups its still nice with 50/1.2L.
http://verybiglobo.blogspot.cz/
OK, so we may get a Minolta MD version for the NEX? Great, can’t wait to see what my Minolta lenses are like, a 24mm turning into a real wide-angle on the NEX.
I’ll be all over this thing when it comes out for Alpha-mount. Hopefully well before summer.
Since by their own admission the autofocus is poor, I’d be interested in adapters without the electronics. Simpler, less expensive. Speed adapters for manual focus legacy lenses.
Ditto this. Waiting for the release of the C/Y to NEX version.
okay, an Alpha mount version is tempting!!
For 600 I prefer to get new lens . It is overprice .
$600 doesn’t go far for faster lenses like f1.4, f1.2
When the Sony Alpha SLT APS-C cameras go mirrorless in a near future, Sony could design the, still DSLR-like, camera body making place for an adapter-part in between the camera-body and the A-mount lenses.
Then Sony could have one adapter-part for APC-C only designed lenses and another adapter-part, like this Metabone-adapter, for FF-lenses taking full advantages of its light capacity!
Maybe it could be other possibilities with such an adapter-part in the future too.
did you mine if we use this sped adapter on APSC A-mount camera we still can use with full frame lens? example use a300 with metabone speed adapter and cz 50mm/1.4? or we can’t use full frame lens on it? just for APSC lens?
It would be nice if Metabones for the non electronic adapter instead of making one for each mount instead could make only one with a bayonet for separate adapters for different mounts. That would be a much cheaper solution for those who own lenses from several different systems. Because buying several adapters with glass would soon eat up too much of the cost difference compared to buying the full frame Nex instead.
Agree that Metabones should look at one adapter per camera with different bayonet fittings. Even if the adapter only supported electronics for either Canon or Nikon, as long as you could add dumb bayonet fittings for different legacy lenses, that would be great. This is the concept of open source style development at its best!
Also I wonder if you could make a speed booster with removable glass element just like many expensive lenses and video cameras have drop in ND filters? Imagine that a single Metabones adapter with removable speed booster element and removable bayone fittings for different lenses. Would be a good business model for them as well. If say the speed booster adapter to the camera cost $600 still and came with a single bayonet fitting. But then you could buy dumb bayonets for maybe $50 or $80. You could basically leave one on each lens and have a universal camera system with removable speed booster. Dream on.
can we use this metabone adapter booster on A-mount APSC?
No, you can’t.
It’s only usable on camera’s with a smaller register distance then Sony Alpha because you need space for the adapter(Nex, Fuji X, M43,…).
Sven
If there is gonna be FD or MD mount, it will need no electronics, since all these lenses are manual. There is a possibility to make it cost a bit less. Would be nice to have interchangeable mount and no electronics. I have some FD stuff waiting.