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The Metabones A to E-mount Speed Booster should come any time soon. But the Chinese company that makes the Lens Turbo was faster and is now already shipping their adapter internationally via [shoplink 21020 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The Lens Turbo basically does the same job as the Speed Booster but it’s cheaper and also doesn’t deliver the same kind of image quality.
I guess you all already know what you gain by using these adapters along an A-mount Full Frame lens. You keep the Full Frame focal length and gain one stop aperture.
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This is getting interesting.
What about this one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271270414302?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Also come from China, Alpha mount, and even cheaper.
From the picture, there does not seem to be a aperture controlling mechanism, it’s a pity.
it does. see “open”?
I’ve got the glassless version of this adapter, which works well and does allow aperture control (it is the third Alpha-NEX adapter in this thread from Dyxum: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/nex-adapters_topic88155_post1035012.html#1035012
Sony will have wide acceptability…only if it has All range (Wide & Tele & super tele) lenses below $300 . Sony is comiting mistakes..by just designing cameras…3-4 in a year…..but missed out just one very important lens…
A)70-300
This is the second lens people buy after buying a DSLR….hope somebody will tell Sony that.
Who says lenses will be front heavy…cant they put tripod mount on the lens ??
How do they plan to sell $2200 SEL 70-400G2 lens ?
But they cant design one simple $300 lens.
What happened to Sigma or Tamaron ?
Many are shying away and buying Nikon /Canon heavy DSLR as cheap lenses are available in all ranges, including Birding (Sorry No SLT..with transmission loss).
Sony is an electronic company. They’re good in making camera body. That’s why they outsource high end lens to ZEISS, one of the best lens makers in the world. Maybe when they have large enough demand, they would able to produce cheap lenses.
does ziess just make the glass; and ship the glass to sony for the rest of the process? or do they make the whole lens and it has sony logo on it?
Zeiss degns the lens and does quality control and inspection.
The Sony/Zeiss lenses are manufactured in Japan by Sony, but outsourcd to Tokina I think.
The lenses have both Sony and Zeiss logo on them.
Zeiss doesn’t make any glass.
SEL24F18 is designed and made by Sony.
Touits are designed and made by Tokina.
ZEISS just licenses their trademark to them.
Wan’t the Olympus 75mm F1.8 designed by SIGMA?
Give your head a shake! No company Canon or Nikon included offers a full line of lenses for $300. I bet you expect them all to be f2.8 or faster for that amount of money. You are trolling for an argument. I love to argue but give me something intelligent to argue about.
And most importantly…I fail to see what your post has to do with the speed booster shipping?
70-300 was one of the first lenses i SOLD because i never use it! sigma and tamron both have one in A-mount, theres also the 55-250 on E-mount
Metabones A to E mount Speed Booster is comming out next week, as I was told by
Alex from GBI Ltd.
Will it have AF? Aperture control?
AF? The best you can get with the NEX body and no additional focusing hardware (LA-EA2) is a AF so slow and unreliable you are better off with manual. As for aperture control, that would be a nice thing.
Metabones A to E mount Speed Booster is comming out next week, as I was told by
Alex from GBI Ltd.
the lens turbo sucks. I had one from fotodiox and I sent it back the next day. Tried it with my 28-70 F2.8 ED Nikor and all the highlights had MASSIVE distortion. LIke it looked like warp speed in Star Trek.
The fotodiox version is not the same as the lens turbo. The fotodiox sucks and the lens turbo is ok, not as good as the Metabones but still usable. Apart from the blue dot reflection issue (not a problem most of the time).
Yeah well don’t buy the one from fotodiox. Its disturbingly bad.
I did try the Lens Turbo in Nikon mount and it sucked *big time*. Sold it at a loss and was still happy to be rid of it ! Should have paid for the Metabones, those look truly good.
Fotodiox is a different company. The Lens Turbo is made by Mitakon.
I agree with Randy. Lens turbo sucks. Optically unimpressive, I would never dare to use it on an assignment and certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone serious about their images/videos. It wouldn’t lock the Nikkor lenses -the pin was too short-you can of course ignore this until you accidentally drop your $lass, I was planning to use with my FS100/700 and the nex mount didn’t lock on either camera either, way too tight.
>You keep the Full Frame focal length and gain one stop aperture.
wrong.
you keep the full frame field of view.
will someone release m43 to NEX adapter with electronic coupling I wonder?
A fully working M43 adapter would need an E mount camera with a moveable sensor. It would have to bring the sensor closer to the lens mount than 18mm to allow for the thickness of the adapter.
Why? M43 flange focal distance is 19.25 mm, which is greater than E-mount’s 18 mm. M43 throat diameter is also significantly narrower, so contact pins’ positions don’t overlap with e-mount’s.
Designing electronic coupling would be a challenge, but nothing impossible here.
BTW mechanical adapters already exist (poorly manufactured ones, of course, don’t permit infinity focusing). Some people mounted sammy 7.5/3.5 to nex (180 horizontal FOV!)
ALSO: as native AF m43 lenses can focus beyond infinity (to ease production tolerance) probably an extra mm or two are available.
I got one for nikon and Its pretty awesome because you can also use m43 lenses as well with a additional almost paper thin adapter. I got the second version that they claim fixes the blue dot issue although some say its still there,just not as visible as before. So far I have not had that problem. I am getting the nikon 105mm 2.5 P.C just for that adapter.
When will you post rumors for RX and NEX FF as you mentioned a few days ago? Thx!
I will wait for the real SB.
Andrea
no news or rumors about the nex ff for days
I took a break. Now I am back don’t worry. First an ILCE rumors to come!
Is there a MC/MD speed booster?
metabones A to E speed booster is out! check their website.
LOL prices are falling fast on focal reducers.
What would have been if Sony had been clever enough to make them from the start of NEX system? Noo, their LA-EA1 without glass and screwdriver costs more…
Actually there are several reviews on the web that put the lens turbo on the same level as the speedbooster….
I bought a LensTurbo adapter about a month ago, and so far I’ve been really impressed with the results using it on my NEX5N. Although I’m only using it with Nikon primes. A 50mm f1.4, and f2.8 28mm, 100mm and 135mm lenses.
Here’s the last music video I shot with it using only 50mm lens. – http://vimeo.com/73433679 Be sure to watch it in HD. Oh, and excuse the colourful language 🙂 Some shots here also used a cheap variable ND filter I bought off eBay too.
I think the video quality is pretty good it is possible people could be getting bad copies of the lens turbo. Mine does not say anything on it and the seller says its the newer improved version. I need to do more testing but so far it looks good to me.
True, I’ve not encountered any of the problems I’ve seen people talk about. I thought there may have been some softness around the edges, but haven’t seen any yet. I’ll definitely be sticking with it.
Nothing for me. I’m waiting for / saving my money for a FF Nex. 🙂
Good idea, me too! hopefully sony will get the e-mount FF lenses out soon, because I’m putting off buying anything new.
I am wondering how is the performance on F1.4 lens with the LensTurbo ?
This is not a Lens Turbo!
This is not our product, not from Mitakon.
This is a lens turbo clone, fake product and the quality is poor.
We do not release the lens turbo for Minolta/Sony Alpha SLR lens to NEX camera.
We are finding this company and will stop their sells.
They are violate our patent!
Most Lens turbo clone seller will remove our logo by Photoshop(red words on top of the adapter – “Zhongyi”).
Please be careful!
Interesting…^^
LensTurbo = Metabones’s Clone ;
Now the other china guy “jinfinance” (ebay) is selling = LensTurbo’s Clone…. ;
So, “jinfinance” (ebay) is selling = Metabones’s Clone’s Clone.
We are not copy Metabones.
The lens design is totally this different and we also have patent for it.
We understand our product may not perfect.
So we are designing the version and announce soon!