Personal View site logo
Make sure to join PV on Telegram or Facebook! Perfect to keep up with community on your smartphone.
Please, support PV!
It allows to keep PV going, with more focus towards AI, but keeping be one of the few truly independent places.
Metabones lens speed booster adapter, focal reducer
  • 873 Replies sorted by
  • chefchef

    http://www.eoshd.com/content/10375/metabones-speed-booster-for-micro-four-thirds-first-look-and-gh3-images hands on with sample pics w gh3!

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

  • mintcheeriosmintcheerios

    Contax/Leica R to MFT is available for purchase now.

    http://www.metabones.com/buy-speed-booster

  • silvertonesx24silvertonesx24

    They choose to release C/Y and Leica R first before EF?

    How many Canon mount users are out there that just can't wait for this thing on m43, a lot more than C/Y and Leica R shooters I'd guess

  • soundgh2soundgh2

    Oh I dont know :) No Cannon glass here just lts of nice C/Y Zeiss loveliness

  • RRRRRRRR

    c/y before EF any day of the week.

    Besides, EF is NOT easily converted to MFT with electronic control (with focal reducer or not), or there would be a bunch of options already.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

  • JAY_TJAY_T

    Has anybody used a speed booster with a GH camera or other M43 for video? All I've found so far is from the Sony NEX series.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @JAY_T

    m43 version is not available yet.

  • Brian202020Brian202020

    @JAY_T @Vitaliy_Kiselev

    On the Metabones website they are currently selling two M43 Speedboosters, and have been for weeks.

    http://www.metabones.com/buy-speed-booster

    @JAY_T

    Also Philip Bloom tested the currently selling M43 Speedboosters on the BMCC MFT. Vitaliy posted it earlier in this thread.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    On the Metabones website they are currently selling two M43 Speedboosters, and have been for weeks.

    Yep, sorry, I meant common mounts, I just fully forgot about their weird approach.

  • JAY_TJAY_T

    Ya, the CY to M43 and Leica R to M43 boosters. I couldn't find any vids at all. I did see Bloom's but I'm more interested in how it looks with the pannys. Cheers guys.

  • coagulosocoaguloso

    Is there any information from that guy @Brian202020 ?, i really want to build something similar, with a 0.5x focal reducer, making any FF lens adapted to m43 while keeping the focal length, i am planning in buying the same focal reducer and build something similar, i am not a serious photographer, but i like to play with lenses so quality is not an issue, also i have a Olympus OM 55mm F1.2 i would like use, it is very soft already so maybe mantaining the focal length will keep the softness away, i don´t know...

  • RRRRRRRR

    c/y-m43 speedbooster is, in short, awesome. I got mine last week and I´m considering getting another one. Well worth the money.

    It really makes the lenses pop as the zeiss full frame glass looks so much better on a slightly bigger sensor (than m43). Until now, I´ve hesitated to use anything but the 28 f2 and 60 macro on my gh2´s.

  • nomadnomad

    @RRRR Thanks for posting! Did you observe anything negative regarding background? Some of my Contax Zeiss have such beautiful bokeh, I wouldn't like to ruin that. Sitting on the fence for the Speedbooster…

  • RRRRRRRR

    @nomad

    Absolutely nothing, so far.. (quite the contrary as I´ve observed) I could maybe make a somewhat comprehensive (stills) test with all my c/y glass.

  • nomadnomad

    Well, if you publish a few of the wider ones for the forum, it should suffice.

    Thanks anyway!

  • vicharrisvicharris

    That would be great.

  • nomadnomad

    Thank you!

    Obviously, it doesn't ruin anything. The 28mm has a bit nervous bokeh sometimes without it too, and the f…ing beautiful bokeh of the 60mm isn't harmed at all.

    Good to know.

  • RRRRRRRR

    absolutely.. I find in particular the 85mm to improve a whole lot with the SB. Aberrations are much less noticeable, and that is true for the whole range of lenses as far as I´ve observed. Coma is also a lot more under control wide open.

  • RRRRRRRR

    Here are shots with the 28mm f2.

    The lens is set to the same aperture, although the actual T stop obviously is different. I tried to aim for the yellow sign for far focus (I may have set it elsewhere for some of the first shots) and I tried to keep a distance of approximately 1 meter to the focal point for the near focus shots.

    (Click on the images to open)

    28_f2_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 416K
    28_f2_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 463K
    28_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 515K
    28_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 593K
    SB28_f2_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 422K
    SB28_f2_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 558K
    SB28_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 516K
    SB28_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 687K
  • RRRRRRRR

    Here are shots with the 35mm f2.8

    35_f28_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 412K
    35_f28nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 646K
    35_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 446K
    35_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 563K
    SB35_f28_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 420K
    SB35_f28_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 517K
    SB35_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 469K
    SB35_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 714K
  • RRRRRRRR

    And finally, the monster of a lens: 60mm f28 macro.

    60m_f28_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 331K
    60m_f28_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 402K
    60m_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 365K
    60m_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 440K
    SB60m_f28_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 324K
    SB60m_f28_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 438K
    SB60m_f56_1mfocus.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 357K
    SB60m_f56_nearinfinity.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 500K
  • DphotogDphotog

    quick question will the EF version of Metabones work with crop lenses like the new Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 or is it only meant to work with FF lenses.

  • MeierhansMeierhans

    It depends on the image circle of the specific lens. I checked the Sigma and it should work. Actually it was right at the border.. so it might vignette a tiny bit at 18.

Add a Comment