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Mitakon lens Turbo, Speed Booster analog, available
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  • you need a lens with a full frame image circle ....m43 lenses don't have full frame image circles.

    It is also wrong, you need about APS-C image circle for m43 reducer.

  • you need a lens with a full frame image circle ....m43 lenses don't have full frame image circles.

    (this got posted out of order and was in response to someone asking about using m43 lenses to m43 speedboosters ...sorry )

  • Problems I’ve encountered while not deal breakers, have to be mentioned. Opening the aperture of the lens while on the lens turbo requires some care. When putting on the adaptor, one must be careful to hook the aperture lever onto a little metal rod – this done with the lens wide open. This has been a little tricky as there is no open/lock switch on the adaptor. Another problem I do notice is the “blue dot issue” – where a blue light appears in the centre of the frame. This occurs when pointing the camera directly into light with a higher aperture. Vigneting hasn’t tended to bother me much (even on my 20mm) but that could just be a personal preference. Wide open on my 50mm at 1.4 (which is really more like f1) there does seem to be some subtle light effects (I’ll call them auras and rainbows) that disappear when stopped down a bit. There is also a definite color change, some have referred to it as being more green.

    All in all, though not perfect… I’m delighted at this cheap $200 adaptor and what it has given me as far as field of view and extra light. I haven’t done an extensive tests of sharpness or distortion, but the results seems to be quite comparable with non Lens Turbo shots.

    http://themartist.com/lens-turbo-canon-fd-review/

    Other few test images - https://picasaweb.google.com/118178147574042355432/LensTurboChineseSpeedBoosterTest02#5877029592679937458

  • @lolo

    Please format post properly. And I think it is wrong topic to post it, it is more about Speed Booster.

    Anamorphic market is just tiny.

  • i find this message regarding the speedbooster, on Voldemort´s forum:

    JohnBarlow wrote: Hello Brian
    I completed an inquiry form at your website in connection with an anamorphic interest.
    Did you get it? (I can resend if you did'nt) , Am I likely to get a response?

    I've been swamped by email lately, and yours may have been lost in the shuffle. Sorry.

    Anamorphic is something we are thinking about, but I can't say anything beyond that right now.

  • "There's no such thing as a M43-to-M43 speed booster. It's impossible."

    @niGGo, it is not impossible at all. Just illegal.

    You can have a focal reducer that maintains back focus distance rather than reducing it. However, Kodak has a patent on that vague idea.

    A similar reason why you can have lenses with a focal length shorter than the back focus distance.

    Eg; the Angénieux retrofocus design, aka the inverted telephoto group.

    Simply put, you can increase back focus distance of a lens optically without increasing focal length, a focal reducer reduces focal length by adding it to another lens.. you can do both at the same time.

  • Still no words on MD to m43?

    Not available yet.

  • Nice to have this on the deals :)
    Still no words on MD to m43?

  • bring on Canon FD to M43!!

  • @QuickHitRecord

    You can check chinese forums from time to time, I mean links in the first post.

  • Has anyone seen any reviews posted of this adapter yet?

  • Once again: Nikon G with aperture control to m43, please :-)

  • Yes, it would be nice to have aperture control using something like the Tokina 11-16 on any MFT body.

  • Yes aperture control for Nikon g lenses. The tokina 11-16 with Nikon mount would be the ideal lens for M43 and BMC pocket camera.

  • The sad thing is that they are first for the Sony mount for Nikon F lenses and so far none of the have aperture control.

    You mean aperture control for Nikon G lenses?

  • The sad thing is that they are first for the Sony mount for Nikon F lenses and so far none of the have aperture control. If they don't start building them now, could we expect aperture control for m43? I am having doubts.

  • FD-MFT please!

  • Can Vitaliy ask them for a m43 nikon/canon version. Unfortunately they just copied metabones while the obvious market is the M43 one. Still shooters (more so Nex camera) are a very poor target market for this adapter more so when they are going to loose autofocus and IS. While with the advent of the GH2, now Gh3 and the black magic cinema camera and BM pocket camera, you have a whole market of video shooters that would that don't care that much about autofocus etc.

  • Mitakon please m43 - PK !

  • Mitakon please m43-takon (MiFTakon) OK ?

  • I need that for m43! Come on Mitakon!!!

  • Dang! Too bad Sony NEX has awful aliasing for video. Still-wise this is gonna be a killer! Any news on m43 turbos?