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Canon Pancake To Sony Nex-6 Via Speed Booster
...in between connections:  . Jan 31 13 05:22 pm Link Jan 31 13 06:21 pm Link This is a great product, that I feel they're marketing the wrong way. If even the producing company says the AF is terrible, then why are they starting off by pushing it for AF lenses? As good as the AF Canon lenses are, the fact remains that by design, AF lenses have lighter and more poorly damped focusing rings than even mediocre old MF lenses - because otherwise the AF motors would have trouble operating them. Plus you got all those AF contacts in there anyway, and that certainly adds to the price. Since it's a niche product anyway, why not pick a better niche? It might not be easy to get people to spend $600 to make Canon lenses mostly work on an NEX, but I'll bet that you could get a lot of people to spend $300-$400 to make OM or M42 lenses work on an NEX. I'm thinking that the Leica R adapter is the only one they make right now that makes any sense. I might be willing to pay $400 to make my M42 Schneiders wider and brighter on my NEX. I'm not going to pay $600 so that I can manually focus a lens that was designed not to be manually focused. Jan 31 13 08:04 pm Link Zack Zoll wrote: There are converters for $40-50 that will convert any lens to a Nex camera. Metabones has 2 types of adapters for Canon lenses, one for $400 that allows the use of Canons autofocus, aperture control and IS through the Nex camera at 1.5 crop. The Adapter that is the subject of this thread and costs $600 gives you an extra stop of light beyond what the lens is rated at and the appearance of the lens being on a full frame camera, no magnification, full frame. Jan 31 13 08:10 pm Link Jan 31 13 09:09 pm Link Yeah, I read the link, and I already have the cheaper adapters for my M42 lenses. Maybe I explained myself poorly. They already make a product that costs two-thirds the price and allows for better AF. This one costs more ... and while the adapted Canon lenses work better in some ways, they work worse in others. Most notably, you're trying to manually focus a now wider-aperture lens that is built using a design that requires the MF ring to work worse. I don't want to pay money for that. By necessity of AF lens design, this adapter is going to make focusing harder, focus peaking or not. The same is true when adapting Nikon or Minolta AF lenses. Contrast that with the Leica R adapter, which has no such problems. Those lenses focus very well manually, and they will continue to do so. Using this adapter with those lenses, or any MF lens, is all benefit, with essentially no drawback. I'm sure the Alpa adapter works great too. But if you've got a bunch of Alpa gear sitting around, I don't think you're the "try to eke out more performance from an inexpensive camera" kind of person. Leica owners will cringe at some of those price tags. That's why I say that the Leica R adapter is the only one that makes any sense. Jan 31 13 09:12 pm Link What I want to know, whats the final focal length for that setup? 20mm + 1.5crop + adapter Feb 01 13 10:47 am Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: 40mm + 1.5crop + adapter ~ 43mm Feb 01 13 10:51 am Link cy be rea n wrote: heh heh, don't you mean 63mm ? Feb 01 13 11:57 am Link cy be rea n wrote: Smedley Whiplash wrote: nope... i wrote what i meant Feb 01 13 12:13 pm Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: Or for about $70 more than the cost of the speed booster itself, you can buy a brand new Voigtlander 28 f/2 or 35 f/1.4 with THAT adapter. Buy used Minolta or other older versions, and you can have them BOTH for the price. You could buy a 50 f/1.2 used for that too, and almost have enough for one of the other legacy lenses. Feb 02 13 05:07 am Link Zack Zoll wrote: The adapter will allow you to mount any Canon EOS lens to the NEX, 85 1.2, 135 2, 50 1.2, 100 mm macro all come to mind, also you can mout any lens that will mount to a Canon EOS mount through an adapter. So you might be able to buy the Leica lens and a mount for the NEX but you still can't mount your EOS lenses. Feb 02 13 06:52 am Link Well, if you've got a bunch of $1,000-$2,000 lenses, then it's a safe bet that you have a full-frame camera already. That means that if you buy the speedbooster, for $600 you get an extra stop of light. At the expense of: worse dynamic range from the APS-C camera, worse ISO performance, increased vignetting - and the lenses you listed already vignette - increased CA, now-terrible AF, merely acceptable MF, very front-heavy balance, and a camera form factor that, between lens and adapter, is barely smaller than the FF camera would have been. Shorter and lighter, but no thinner. Sounds like an excellent trade-off to me. I'd love to invest in a $2,000 prime lens of superb optical quality so that I could immediately adapt it to a system that will reduce the lens quality. Of course, none of that changes my initial point, which is that they are marketing it all wrong. Look at the lens they show with it. Their promotional materials don't show it with an 85 f/1.2. They show it with that 40. And there is absolutely no reason why anyone would need to adapt that lens to an NEX, except 'because they can.' It's a fantastic lens for the money, but it's a fantastic lens that doesn't need adapting, as cheaper, better alternatives are available from pretty much every OEM manufacturer. Feb 03 13 07:52 am Link |
