Cheap Speed Booster alternative coming? The “Lens Turbo”.
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 [shoplink 37365 ebay]Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. 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:
[shoplink 37925 ebay]Nikon F lenses[/shoplink]
[shoplink 37926 ebay]Contax C/Y lenses[/shoplink]
[shoplink 37927 ebay]Contarex lenses[/shoplink]
[shoplink 37928 ebay]Alpa lenses[/shoplink]
[shoplink 37929 ebay]Rollei lenses[/shoplink]
[shoplink 37930 ebay]Canon EF lenses[/shoplink]