Thanks for this, but these comparison shots are flawed because you're matching 50mm shots with 75mm shots.
he's shooting a test chart with framing matched. i don't think i'd call these flawed, it's up to the viewer what conclusions to draw. the shots from the 58/1.2 on the 5DII give a good idea of how the LT + lens compares to the lens on FF. having used some of the other lenses natively on FF i can say the edge softening and SA is coming mostly from the LT and not the lenses.
thanks for doing all the work phillip! i think i'll probably wait a while and see if they actually do come out with a speedbooster version in MD mount, maybe i'll pickup the c/y one in the meantime.
Mine just went up on the Buy and sell forum. It was not so bad, as you can see in my images above but not compelling enough to make me want to leave it on the camera all the time.
Just did my first bit of handheld/wide open night shooting with the Lens Turbo (and NEX, for that matter).
Honestly, I'm somewhat disappointed. In daylight, it is great, but at night, I have a LOT of flare/glare that shouldn't be there, and even large halo/blobs around point light sources.
I am doing a massive upload to picasa right now, hadn't cleared the card in.... a week or two. I'll try and post some samples tomorrow.
Why does this start to remind me as being the modern equivalent of all those dirt cheap 2x converters everyone seemed to have as part of their 70s-80s era SLR kit with 28, 50 and 135mm lenses? I used to work in photo retail in the 90s and those were so common with trade-ins that we were literally swamped with them. I can't ever remember re-selling any...
As I said earlier, his results didn't come anywhere close to mirroring mine, for some reason or another. Had mine behaved like that, I would've attempted to return it probably.
Also-
I actually found myself in a perfect "brick wall" situation.
This is a bit of a compromise though, but still against my usual methods.
Handheld, low light, but easy shot to "get right".
F1.4-f8.0 series, aperture denoted on bottom, and a bonus "auto awesome" gif of them all haha.
Just got mine from eBookman. Raining like heck outside and its dark but my available light tests actually look better than I expected with my MD 50 1.4. We'll have to see how it goes with real light.
I got my Lens Turbo for Minolta FD yesterday from eBookman. So far I'm pretty impressed. Yes I lose sharpness but overall I think it's going to be a nice tool to have when I'm looking for a particular look. It seems to have problems with CA in some of my shots but overall I'm actually surprised. These are raw out of the camera with my default settings applied which add a bit of sharpening and saturation boost to mimic the OOC jpegs best I can.
