While I am still deciding what kind of third party lens I should buy for my NEX-7 I found two crazy adapters I never saw before. One is the [shoplink 10924 ebay]Wallimex Tilt-shift adapter for Nikon lenses (Click here to see on eBay)[/shoplink] and the other one is the [shoplink 10925 ebay]Kipon EOS adapter with built-in manual aperture ring (Click here to see on eBay)[/shoplink]. I have no use for both but maybe you could be interested to get those.
By the way, thanks for all emails you sent me with your third party lens suggestions. I will sum them and post your findings on SAR soon. I really learned a lot form you and I will try to help SAR readers to figure out which lens works best on Sony NEX cameras.
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There are NO tilt/shift adapters for the NEX that I know of. The Wallimex adapter you mistake for one is nothing new. Adrian Lolli, AFAIK was the first to come up with one, followed by 2 or 3 others from China.
Kippon has combined tilt shift if you care
It’s only a Tilt-Adapter, you can’t shift the lenses with this one. There are also Minolta MD-, Olympus OM-, Contax- and even Canon FD Tilt-Adapters for the Nex available. The Canon FD Tilt-Adapters have a lens to focus to infinity.
Hawk m adapter allow close focus And infinity
+1. The One that Hawk created for M -> NEX is a master piece.
The Canon Adapter with the built in aperture does nothing “right”.
If you use it and close down the aperture the lens you use will heavily vignette. There was a thread on dpreview in the Nex section about it a while back. If it would work I would own it 🙂
yes, definitely. I am still waiting for the adapter from Conurus which have electronic part to control the aperture of EOS lenses. But I think it may be available in early 2012. Please be patient.
eh, those are failed adapters…
I got one a couple month ago, it vignettes heavily with zoom lenses and is not suitable for ultra wide angle lenses, however it works great with primes from 28mm upwards, no vignetting or other problems
How many blades on the aperature on the EOS adapter? Quite a few.
I own the Kipon EOS-NEX adapter. It does actually work on a few lenses (all of them primes, like the Canon 50 f/1.8 and the 28 f/1.8), but my biggest complaint is that the aperture ring is really loose and can be knocked easily. Aside from that, when it works it works well.
What about the Lensbaby Composer with Tilt Transformer? That looks fun. http://lensbaby.com/lenses-composer-tt.php
I’m pretty sure their quite expensive composer is fun while tilt photography usually has been something much more serious especially with architecture. Two weeks ago I’ve ordered a tilt adapter from China to use an old Leica R 35mm lens with my NEX-5 (with and without tilt) – still waiting for it’s arrival, of course, but very curious…
If you’re going for a tilt adapter make sure there is NO correction lens inside. There is a Canon FD to E-Mount adapter famous for ugly results because of that.
I just got the Fotodiox with built in aperture and can’t wait to try it!!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B005ODK5LC/ref=aw_d_cr_photo?qid=1325341813&sr=8-1
Hmm, remembering everything about this takes a little long, but I DO remember from lessons long ago that aperture/diaphragm should be INSIDE the lens, not in front of or behind the lens. I can’t remember what the problems otherwise are, vignetting or distortion or maybe both 🙂
Vignetting (heavy or bearable depending on the lense) and cropped bokeh (“swirling bokeh”, or even worse depending on the lense)
Adapter with build in aparture is not good idea, aperture is not in correct place (it cannot be anywhere, the ono inside the lens is correct one)
You can use 5$ diy electronics to control Canon EOS lens – including IS and autofocus !
Could you please give us more information about the electronics you have mentioned above?
The EOS-NEX tilt adapter is nice because you can buy EOS-to-other-mount adapters and use them with it. Basically it’s a universal tilt-adapter.
Kippon have tilt and shift adapters for NEX.
They trade a bit on the expensive side, but then no competition exists