See what happens if you use Micro Four Thirds lenses on the Sony NEX :)
I guess not many of you knew that there is a new adapter (made and sold by a taiwanese company on eBay) which enables the use Micro Four Thirds lenses on Sony NEX cameras. Woodent (a dpreview forum user) tested the Voigtländer 25mm f/0.95 on the Sony NEX-5. Click here to see the camera+lens combo on Flickr. There are also a few image samples (again on Flickr). The lens has a lot of vignetting at f/0.95 aperture. The focal lenght on the Sony corrisponds to 37.5mm (fullframe). That’t definitely not an ideal combination, but the Sony NEX system currently offers only three lenses so you have to be inventive 
P.S.: There are only a few Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lenses in Stock in Europe (via eBay and Europe shipment only). And the US store Cameraquest has already sold out the 2nd factory shipment of 25/.95 lenses expected by late December.
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Brian
2 years ago |I don’t think that is going to work very well.
Dan
2 years ago |So you’ll have a nice lens on a P&S camera with a horrible interface?!? Hmmm… Perhaps not!
Arpan
2 years ago |This is actually kind of interesting. I would have thought that when Voigtländer designed a new lens for M43 cameras, they would have made the image circle a little bigger so that they could later be released for other mirrorless cameras.
It looks like they are not planning on targeting any other mount, only m43.
Jonathan
2 years ago |That’s the nice thing about the nokton – it is designed specifically for m43. I think it would have to be much bigger to cover an aps-c sensor.
On the other hand, CV may also introduce Nex mount lenses… they are definitely well selling cameras.
bookervrk
2 years ago |The adapter itself is the product with surprise. Six months ago, several friends and me discussed the M4/3 to Nex adapter in Taiwanese forum, due to the birth of Nex. And we didn’t want to buy a set of adapter(For nex), for we just buy a set of adapter for M4/3. So we ask Hawk to do us a favor. Then, a month ago, he told one of friend to come to his house, they just try the 20mm F1.7 and some of ZD lens. And you will see in photofan.jp.
Now we know the ZD SWD lens can focus with the adapter, but other can.
And 20mm F1.7 is great lens, for its very little vigenette.
With MZD9-18, it would be switched to 10.5mm without the vigenette.
with 7-14, it would be 9mm without the virgenette.
Seika
2 years ago |Being short sighted on that. Thought there’s not much point for an adapter for those electronic lenses. But to cut off need of buying another set of adapter when moving to NEX…
Woodent
2 years ago |maybe I was doing something wrong, but no way did my 20/1.7 or 9-18 focus on NEX with that adapter. Which is kind of logical, given that “focus-by-wire” is a digital, rather than mechanical, system, as far as I understand
bookervrk
2 years ago |Actually, It would be focused by the M4/3 body in advance. It’s realy for fun, though.
Seika
2 years ago |The electronic lenses are out of question.
I mean the situation when you already invested EOS, Nikon F, Pentax K, C-mount, MD mount, M42, M39, Leica thread, Leica M, etc adaptor to M4/3 system, lots of them. Using this one adaptor user could use those adapters with the NEX without having to buy another set of adapter for them, albeit using two adapters.
That part… didn’t thought of it before.
bookervrk
2 years ago |“Now we know the ZD SWD lens can focus with the adapter, but other can.”
Sorry it has a mistake in typing.
the Text should be
“Now we know the ZD SWD lens can focus with the adapter, but other can’t.”
Miroslav
2 years ago |Sacrilege
!
This adapter was obviously made with Voigtlander lens in mind. Vignetting is actually not that bad in 16:9 at night, but the focus problem at lower apertures makes it useless.
Woodent, thanks for the pictures and comments.
M43Photo
2 years ago |It’s rather useless, since you cannot control the AF nor the aperture from the camera. So you’re stuck with max aperture and near infinity focus.
Except for the 25mm f/0.95 lens, of course, which has manual focus and a manual aperture ring.
kesztió
2 years ago |+1
And – last but not least – hardly surprising that it has lot of vignetting. Let’s be serious. Cannot use lenses designed for sensible smaller sensor w/o serious compromises!
Woodent
2 years ago |Actually, 20/1.7 covers the entire sensor of NEX. But doesn’t focus, of course.
kesztió
2 years ago |I’m surprised. As far as I know the 20/1.7 has some vignetting even on MFT.
Adam Maas
2 years ago |It’s soft vignetting (light falloff), not hard vignetting (insufficient image circle). The two are very different and soft vignetting can be compensated for in post.
Woodent
2 years ago |I wouldn’t say entirely useless, combo does have its uses – like, shooting in low light some stand-alone objects with extreme bokeh, like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/41626753@N06/5252010303/
But there is, unfortunately, no way to use the Voigtlander as a standard lens on NEX. Not at least with the currently available adapter.
But no one will stop me from using this sweet glass on my E-PL1
ecle
2 years ago |20mm has a lot of vignetting up to ~F2,8 on Micro 4/3
Woodent
2 years ago |well, it is still there, but it is still vignetting, not the dead-black corners, as with Voigtlander
tmrgrs
2 years ago |DPR says that the 20/1.7 has 1.5 stops vignetting at f/1.7 and zero vignetting at f/2.8.
Camajan
2 years ago |Man, 90% of m43 news on this blog is people testing lenses not made for it…
admin
2 years ago |Hi. Please click on “reviews” and then check if your statement is correct. 90% are Micro Four Thrids lenses
Jack
2 years ago |Just read this, http://suwenchee.blogspot.com/2011/03/voigtlander-25mm-f095-for-sony-nex-e.html. Possible? I cannot understand how he use an adapter to do infinity focus?