Last week Metabones officially announced that the new MFT Speed Booster adapter release has been delayed til late 2013. But there could be a good news soon. The Chinese company Zhongyi Optical announced the cheap alternative of the Speed Booster named “Lens Turbo” The first adapters are made for the Sony E-mount system but the MFT version should follow soon. There are some differences with the popular Speed Boosters:
1) They have no electronic contacts (no AF and no automatic Aperture control).
2) To avoid patent disputes with Metabones the adapter has a different design and a reduction ration of 0.726 (Speed Booster is 0.71)
3) The Lens Turbo price is set at US$239 which is half the price of the Metabones Speed Boosters

Zhongyi Optical also makes the Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 lens (here on eBay). But…I am not sure Metabones lawyers will stay calm on this…

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Reminder: Here are the links to the lenses you can find on eBay and that will be supported by the Speed Booster MFT adapter:
Nikon F lenses
Contax C/Y lenses
Contarex lenses
Alpa lenses
Rollei lenses
Canon EF lenses

I think Sigma Foveon sensors are the technology of the future and it’s only a matter of time until they solve the few remaining issues (like low quality at high ISO). That said a Chinese company promises right now that they can modify your Sigma DP camera in an interchangeable lens camera for every mount. On the picture you see the Leica M-mount version.

Just send in your DP camera at Taobab (translation here) and ask for the mount you want. The full modification costs you round $300.

43rumors reader Mike Bacchin made that nice LF1 rendering. Of course, expect the LF1 to be much different but I liked it so much that I wanted to share it with you readers

Thanks Mike!

P.S.: The G6 and the LF1 fixed lens (and with built-in EVF) compact camera will be announced soon (in 2 weeks from now).

If you want to see more image samples taken with the new GF6 than check out these links at Photographyblog, Hybridcams, Focus Numerique, Dkamera and Photoscala.

P.S.: Sources can send me info about the upcoming G6 and LF1 by using the anonymous contact form. Thanks!

This was a very busy week! And here are the rumor/news highlights to remember:

Links to the two new MFT cameras:
We had two new MFT camera announcements. Here are the preorder links for US. I still haven’t found EU preorder link options
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera specs and preorders at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Panasonic GF6 specs and preorders at t Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

Olympus E-P5 and E-PL6:
There is an Olympus announcement scheduled for early May. There will be a new E-P5 with no built-in EVF and likely same OMD sensor. It comes in black, silver and white and with the 17mm f/1.8 lens or with the 14-42mm.
There maybe also a new E-PL6 with small improvements over the previous E-PL5.

Panasonic G6 and LF1:
In late April Panasonic will announce the G& and the premium compact and fixed lens camera named “Panasonic LF1″. it has a built-in viewfinder.

Panasonic affordable lenses:
Panasonic showed their charts about the current Mirrorless sales and also said that they want to focus on the development of affordable lenses: http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-wants-to-focus-on-affordable-lenses/

Metabones MFT adapter:
They have been delayed and will now come in late Summer: http://www.43rumors.com/metabones-speed-booster-adapter-for-mft-delayed/

That was a hell of a week! And there are plenty of new rumors and news to come the next week too!

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Kenmorecamera still sells the GF5 for an incredible low price:
1) $169,00 for the Black body only (Click here)
2) $217,90 for the Red body with kit lens (Click here)