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p.3 #14 · p.3 #14 · FotodioX PRONTO: Leica M-Mount to Sony E-Mount with AF! | |
Fred Miranda wrote:
We are talking suspicion of 100% cloning another AF adapter and all its intellectual property, research and ingenuity. It think it's different than reverse engineering AF when designing third party lenses.
TechArt Pro is based on Sony's reverse engineering as well and to me, that's a different story.
It would be fine is Fotodiox borrowed TAP's concept and created their OWN adapter.
I think we are splitting hairs here. We cannot see the details of the camera to lens protocol so it seems like not a big deal to reverse engineer this protocol and sell lenses that meet the protocol. With the adapter, it visible to us so there is something we can hold in our hands and see the copy...but none the less there has been many man years of developement for both the protocol and adapter and both are being ripped off. Just because you cannot see the protocol does not make it less of a ripoff.
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