I just wanted to tell everyone of my experience with the metabones c-mount to M4/3 adapter because it scared the you know what right out of me. The adapter itself is a nice piece of engineering and is of much better build quality than the $15 rainbow imaging adapter and others like it you find on eBay. The moment the adapter arrived from China, I attached my Canon 25-100mm c-mount lens and put the lens on my AF100. It seemed to go on a bit stiff, but it clicked into position nicely and I had no black screen problem when I fired up the camera as has been the case with some other adapters. The mount was solid and did not move on the camera. I was very happy to see that I could now achieve infinity focus through the entire zoom range with the metabones - something I was not able to do with the cheaper adapters. My excitement was short lived and my heart sank into my stomach, however, when I tried to remove the lens from the camera and the adapter would not budge. I mean, it was like it was cemented in place and wouldn't turn at all, no matter how hard I squeezed it with my fingers and tried to turn it. The lens, being a c-mount, started to unscrew from the adapter right away as I attempted to remove the metabones from my AF100. So, I took off the lens altogether at that point and decided to focus on getting the adapter off of my camera. Much to my horror, it just wouldn't move. I tried pliers, but the adapter was just too wide and thin to get a good grip on. So, with great care, I had no choice but to bang the adapter off of the camera using a screwdriver and hammer! I stuck the screwdriver into the little "u" shaped indent in the top of the adapter and tapped with the hammer while holding down the lens release button. Thankfully, the adapter loosened with each good tap of the hammer until it finally was loose enough to get off. A truly awful way to dismount an adapter, but it was my only choice unless I wanted to be limited forever more to c-mount lenses on my AF100.
Anyway, I am curious if anyone else has had this problem with the metabones c-mount adapter. If not, what on earth am I doing wrong? I mounted the adapter on its own without any lens and it did the same thing. Maybe I got a defective piece? I'm positive the adapter was lined up flush with the camera each time I put it on, but it just gets stuck on the camera every time.
Anyway, I am curious if anyone else has had this problem with the metabones c-mount adapter. If not, what on earth am I doing wrong? I mounted the adapter on its own without any lens and it did the same thing. Maybe I got a defective piece? I'm positive the adapter was lined up flush with the camera each time I put it on, but it just gets stuck on the camera every time.
