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Speed Booster at 35mm F1.0 on the Sony NEX 7 With the Metabones Speed Booster APS-C and Super 35mm sized sensors have taken a barrelling charge up to the door of full frame. Does it blow the doors off?

I'm going to use the FS700 + MB SB to create sharper, full frame cat videos for youtube. That and test charts. Maybe combine the two concepts and shoot a Hello Kitty test chart.

This changes everything. People will be shooting awesome films, getting into Sundance, and getting 3 picture deals left and right.

According to the MB whitepaper*, the SB will increase image quality (measurable MTF) in the same way an extender reduces image quality. If accurate (in mass production- the math/physics makes sense), that means that not only is FF possible and -1 effective f-stop, but also higher IQ. I ordered the SB and and FS700 to test. If it works as advertised, the FS700+SB looks to be the most affordable/versatile pro camera right now (S35 and FF, very low light, multiple frame rates, super slomo, true 1080p pixels). C300 has better ergonomics and perhaps a more bulletproof internal codec, but has far less features and costs $16k.   * http://www.metabones.com/images/metabones/Speed%20Booster%20White%20Paper.pdf

My Sekonic 308 hardly gets used now - shot film for 20 years so it was essential but seeing as you can now see the image you are shooting instantly its not used much now I now work on the notion of 'if it looks good..it is good'

I'm just blown away that this technology even exists. This is something that should just be built into all small sensor cameras right? I mean, wouldn't it be great if the Black magic cinema camera just had something like this built into the camera? Just before the lens mount? Why not?

    Not possible.  Without being recorded through a speed booster, all editing software will crash during export from here on in.  

Getting a certain look in-camera always was the DPs job, be it for movies or documentary. Not saying that things shouldn't progress and there are A LOT of situations I`m happy to be able to shoot flat. But for Blanche´s situation, travel documentary, I´d opt for the best in-camera look, expose properly and roll. And then you can really say "I did that." ;)

  What it means is the death of sacrificing video performance just to get the look of full frame.  None of the full frame options currently available, or announced, offer anywhere near the best motion picture performance.     $1000 USD camera (why, when you could buy a GH2, but whatever) + $700 adapter cost = video performance that totally curb-stomps a $1700 full frame camera, or a $2975 full frame camera, or a $6728.99 full frame camera, or a $12,728.99 full frame camera.   That's what this means.

  I guess it can start some sort of change in market, we will see right? Just remember one thing - when pen was invented, it didn't help to produce many more great poems:)

  Don't forget the fact that every lens you buy suddenly has a double purpose (with and without speedbooster). And you don't have to buy f/1.4 lenses anymore, you can pay less than half for a f/2 and have the same light gathering capabilities. Even a dirt cheap f/2.8 prime makes a nice f/2.0.   For example: I'm interested in buying a reasonably fast (at least f/2) standard lens (50mm equivalent) and a wide angle (35mm equivalent) for my GH2.   I could buy a Canon FD / Nikkor 24mm f/2 to get the 50mm equivalent, that would cost €300 to €400 on eBay. To get a 35mm equivalent, I'd need a 17mm. I could buy some crappy, rare, huge 17mm f/3.5, but that's not fast. The only choice is a Voigtlander 17.5mm f/0.95, for €1200!   With the Speed Booster, I could buy a Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 for €100 to get 50mm f/2 and a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 for €200 to get a 35mm f/2.   For the price of the Voigtlander 17.5mm, you could buy the Samyang 24mm f/1.4 and the Speed Booster, and get pretty much the same effect: 35mm f/1.0. Plus the added bonus of all your lenses suddenly behaving the same as their much more expensive counterparts.   It is not cheap. But if you are in the market for a a few fast standard/wide lenses like me, then the Speed Booster instantly pays itself back. Plus you get options that aren't even possible without the adapter.   To me this actually is the most exciting product I've seen in years. Yes, we have seen a lot of technical developments on the camera side. Better sensors, cheaper camera's... Nice, but glass always stays the same. Nothing changes physics. Good glass is expensive. In a way it's nice that this doesn't change, lenses retain their value.   But now Metabones manages to come up with something that turns this very fixed part of photography/filmmaking upside down. If I were Sony (CaNikon are too slow anyway..) I'd instantly buy out Metabones and release this technology inside a mirrorless camera (with A-mount, just fit the element in place of the SLT-construction and use Phase Detection pixels) That would be the break trough cheap 'fullframe' camera and stir the market :)

What about medium format camera (C/Y, HS..) to NEX/m43 adapter [if it will be created]? - angle of view and aperture x4? :)

  Yeah and what do you say to those you WILL be shooting awesome films with this adapter and getting into Sundance? I think they should make you watch the films with the edges cut off and a 1.5x crop version just for Mr Sarcastic.

  Nikon F please.

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    hey man infinity is for buzz lightyear and neil armstrong. eye shoots hardcore ggilf  80 years old plus old folk action same scripts as milf stuff but with beyond grey action. dis adapter is gonna help me destroy and exploit plenty more toothless folks.

Very exciting, I applaud Metabone for releasing such a great adapter. Now Full Frame wont be a big issue for people who don't like crop factors, its a win win. Thats not saying people wont find something else to complain about though.

  very true.  once used to shooting on a flat profile and judging by what you see on the evf/monitor, if it looks good on the monitor/evf. when the contrast is brought back in post it always seems to work, 

  It'll be ready in March. Download the pdf whitepaper, it's not 'planned' it's already done. Plus a passive Nikon F version too.

  I would totally rather have the high quality version as well. Why put $$$ worth of optics in front of a cheap knock off?   If something is worth doing then it is worth doing properly.   The reason I like the GH2 and Blackmagic for instance is not that they're cheap knock offs but that the results come so close to really high end cameras.   The pricing of this adapter is a none issue! If a clone springs up and it is even 5% less good I won't buy it for all the tea in china.   You make an interesting point Rich about if goods were manufactured in the US or UK we'd be paying what they actually cost to make. Actually I think we'd only pay slightly more and that big companies would be FORCED to lower their margins. What they're doing today (take Apple, Dell, Canon, Sony, almost anybody big as an example) is simply exploitation. Exploitation of low living costs for their huge gains. It isn't to bring the prices down for consumers, it is to put their margins up.   There's zero reason Apple needs to make 500% margin on an iPhone and have 70 billion or something in the bank. Zero reason for it at all. They're too powerful and it is power built on the back of the weak and disenfranchised.   They could double salaries at Foxconn and raise the price of an iPhone only 10% and still make a nice profit on it.