Comments on: New Adapter Makes Your Lenses Wider, Faster and Sharper!

By: Arturo Mieussens

Arturo Mieussens — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:44:00 +0000

This is great, but it’s a viable business only because of the lack of really good lenses for mirrorless cameras. There are some very good lenses out there, specially fuji has very good quality lenses, but selection is very limited yet.

By: DavidBickley

DavidBickley — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:23:00 +0000

My 85 f/1.2 is basically always on manual and ti’s rare that I miss what I’m focusing on. It just takes practice.

By: Hail Sagan

Hail Sagan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:44:00 +0000

Like every one else who loves MF lenses. ;)

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:25:00 +0000

Typically they had a much different focus screen than the pure matte we get in today’s SLRs. I prefer some variation of split screen and microprism ring and find it really slow to focus on a matte plain.

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:09:00 +0000

This sounds wicked right? The only catch is I hear M-mount lenses wont work with this due to the back of the Leica lenses. I don’t know much about Leica lenses but this is what I was read on Fuji rumors.

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:07:00 +0000

Focus peaking will aid tremendously in the use of this type of device. Sony has it, Fuji does not but the X100s does have white focus peaking which I don’t understand why they don’t also make it other colors, though I did read from a color blind photog that he can’t see the colored peaking. Fuji also is using a new split screen focusing aid.

I would not worry about focusing the lenses at f.95 as there has been much success doing this with the SLR Magic 35mm lens due to focus peaking on the Sony Nex cameras. The other big question is, how will this effect the sales of the Sony RX1? If this device proves to be VERY good, it will surely change the marketing strategy of these companies. We could see a future of smaller bodied full frame cameras. I have wondered about purchasing an NEX 7 for a while and the answer always turned up no, maybe this could push me more towards yes as this would not only make it VERY close to full frames field of view, but would also be BETTER.

The Fuji x-trans has already been stated as out resolving many of the pre 5dmk3 and d800 full frames.The only problem I currently have with Fuji’s x-trans is the raw file handling, beyond that, the camera are wicked. I can’t wait till this hits the market and I get to see it in true action.

By: John Meadows

John Meadows — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:54:00 +0000

Newsflash …. people were able to focus fast lenses without autofocus for decades . . .

By: tonyc0101

tonyc0101 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:53:00 +0000

Whoops, nevermind…”Mounted between a mirrorless camera and a SLR lens” (Metabones webbie)

By: tonyc0101

tonyc0101 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:52:00 +0000

Ok, am I the only one confused by the interchangeable usage of the terms DSLR and mirror-less and what type of camera body these adapters are actually made for? lol.

By: C.K. Lee

C.K. Lee — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:37:00 +0000

That’s a pretty ignorant remark; just because you rely on autofocus for what you shoot doesn’t mean others do.