Opticallimits

http://www.kipon.com/en/articledetail.asp?id=80

 

They claim it is the first adapter between the two with AF, is that right? For some reason I thought there was one already, was there only the E-mount one from metabones (with or without speed booster, and maybe others now?).

 

Now, the Sony one was said to offer poor AF speed. Kipon here chooses the words "HIGH SPEED" in their description, in caps no less. Wonder how it really performs?

 

Also I have to wonder if there is much of a market for it. MFT arguably has the mainstream lenses well covered already. It is still lacking in exotics so would that be enough of a niche? Will it help hesitant system switchers smooth the transition? Or will it add flexibility for those running dual systems?

There are some videos around on youtube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFwXztcOzA

 

Convincing IMHO.

 

I felt like you that the need is slowly fading... well, I guess there are still people with EF lenses they kept. For others, I'm not sure I'd add the price of an adapter to buying an EF lens.

 

Curious, like you, I went to look if there was any progress with EF to Nex and it looks like there is still much work to be done on the EF to Nex. 

Ooh, hadn't seen that. Based on that set of 3 videos, it looks good enough for single shot AF. Personally I would have preferred to see how well it performs if they selected a single point AF and point it alternating from near to far focus. Also two STM and one USM lens is hardly a big sample. STM might be expected to be more suitable, but the single USM example looked ok too.

 

I'm still eternally debating if it is worth me going dual-system, and reuse of my existing EF mount lenses may or may not factor into that.