To be fair, you don't HAVE to have the most expensive Metabones. In fact, you can get some cheap adapters on ebay that will work fine, according to the Angry Photographer.
I bet that's the reason why he's so angry then
I once, what now seems as a long, long time ago, in a universe far, far away (I moved since, met Kristina, became a dad), owned a Sony NEX. Only recently did I think back at that adventure and told Kristina that I would NEVER buy a mirrorless camera again, because...
On that Sony I had a cheap $20 "Made in China" adapter. It took some 2 return shipments, some shimming and some lightsealing of obvious design flaws to get that halfway usable.
There are 2 lenses I'm most worried about when really going this route. The 16mm f3,5 fish eye and the 55mm f1,2 which both lose a lot of their original character adapted to a crop sensor camera. The expensive 0,71x magnification Metabones adapter would save the character of both lenses at the cost of 4 extra glass elements adding distortion, losing sharpness and changing said character. But at the benefit of retaining the field of view and pretty much all of the rendering of both lenses.
The alternative would be buying both a new full frame fisheye and a fast standard lens (which would then be one of the 35mm f1,2 offerings, or Nikons 35mm f1,4 Nikkor-N). In both scenarios I spend around $500. The question remains, where did I spend it best?
So, where are those beverages you guys are talking about?
May 23, 2017 at 04:24 PM
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