Metabones Speed Booster - Faster, Sharper, Wider lenses on APS-C and below...

[Kholi]

I Don't post news often... but this is the first big node for me of the new year:

http://philipbloom.net/2013/01/13/speedbooster/

From the looks of it, even this beta image is very very promising. I think they need to work on coatings to deal with the slight reduction of contrast but so far...

This is pretty significant to me.

Changes a lot of things about APS-C... and will change MFT creative application in a great way.

REALLY looking forward to this on Blackmagic...

[dcloud]

now iwant to exchange my BMC ef mount for an MFT one.

[jakobim]

wow just $600

[Stranden]

Wow, did we just witness progress in optics? Oh well, NASA did it for like 40-50 years ago, but still if this is as good as it sounds and looks then the BMC production queue just got significantly larger. ;)

[James0b57]

...if this is as good as it sounds and looks then the BMC production queue just got significantly larger. ;)

+1

Definitely takes the mirror less realm to new places! GH3 just got better iso performance, and with no DR penalty too.

[keylight]

Looks very promising. Itching to give it a try with the new GH3 centered rig I'm putting together.

[stefancolson]

The most shocking thing about this is that nobody has done it before in this application. It seems like such a simple, obvious idea. I can't wait to get my hands on one.

[morgan_moore]

Will this actually work with mft?

[hoodlum99]

Metabones said a mft version is coming. Up until recently (ie. mirrorless) the flange distance was too long on APS-C for this to work.

[morgan_moore]

great,

id like a dumb nikon one - no need to pay for the electronics