filmguy123
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So now that the speedboosters have been out for a while..
Any advantage to the metabones adaptors @ around $400 vs Fotdiox around $150?
Any advantage to the metabones adaptors @ around $400 vs Fotdiox around $150?
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GH4 MEtabones Speedbooster VS Fotodiox Excell+1 (or others)
- Thread starter filmguy123
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The cheaper speed boosters have issues with reflections, as far as I know none of them have fixed this. When the lens flares it can produce blue tinted orbs, can look awful sometimes.
Also the Metabones adapters have electronic contacts, and can therefore control electronic lens apertures, and also image stabilizers... the cheap ones can't do this.
I personally have a cheap one, and just work around it's limitations for now until I have the budget for a metabones.
Also the Metabones adapters have electronic contacts, and can therefore control electronic lens apertures, and also image stabilizers... the cheap ones can't do this.
I personally have a cheap one, and just work around it's limitations for now until I have the budget for a metabones.
I remember a guy posted something about this a short while back... the news wasn't great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFrcr7mfTU
To reduce it all to a cliche, "you get what you pay for"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFrcr7mfTU
To reduce it all to a cliche, "you get what you pay for"
The Excell +1 from Fotodiox is a joke. Go to cheesycam and search for reviews. It is so bad, that Fotodiox had to come out and claim that actually the Excell is not a speedbooster, only a "focal reducer" and not meant to be used on a lens faster than f4 or f8 or some similar kind of madness. Completely useless. If you want to compare the SB from metabones, don't compare to the Excell +1 but to other ones, like the much better reviewed RJ Lens Turbo.