lucabutera Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Just a test in low light with Canon 50mm 1.8 II. The crop, the dof, the bokeh and the flare it's very cinematic and very nice look. I tested with M42 and Exakta lenses, this lens work perfectly. (Excuse me, the color grading is fast and no perfect). cisco150, Juxx989, IKSLIM and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cojocaru27 Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 nice work luca, thx for the effort. May i ask you what happen to the nikon adapter? As you, i have the nikon 50 1.4d lens and i would love to see some updated tests with this lens. What is the status on this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucabutera Posted August 7, 2016 Author Share Posted August 7, 2016 2 hours ago, cojocaru27 said: nice work luca, thx for the effort. May i ask you what happen to the nikon adapter? As you, i have the nikon 50 1.4d lens and i would love to see some updated tests with this lens. What is the status on this one? Tnx! The NXL speed booster lesn that I built is compatible with Canon, Nikon, m42, exakta, pl and more lenses mount. It's one SB for all lenses! In these days I will publish progress with nikon lens. cisco150, Pavel Mašek and Marco Tecno 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cojocaru27 Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 fu*k that's amazing. didn't know it's possible to have one speed booster for them all. keep us posted. thx Marco Tecno and cisco150 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel Mašek Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Luca, great work! I am happy that it will work with EF mount... From previous post it seems that crop factor is around x1.1 on NX, am I correct? Optics comes from Lens turbo (v.I or v.II) or Metabones SB (Ultra os SB I)? Marco Tecno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucabutera Posted August 7, 2016 Author Share Posted August 7, 2016 2 hours ago, cojocaru27 said: fu*k that's amazing. didn't know it's possible to have one speed booster for them all. keep us posted. thx Tnx. The EF mount is a big step forward. The factories of adapters should not only build an adapter for all lenses because not economically convenient. But I am an Italian craftsman, then, considering the price, for obvious reasons, will be more expensive than mass-produced in China, I prefer that, who buys a NXL can use it with all the lenses, this is a great advantage because even if you spend a little more you can use it with any lens. In future I adding electronic controls and smart functions. vaga, SMGJohn, cisco150 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttbek Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 On 8/6/2016 at 6:06 PM, sandro said: I actually meant that range 24-150 (not 35 mm equivalent). The 18-200 is the only lens available close to that and with AF. I'm struggling to think of many examples for any system that cover that range. 24-70, plenty, 24-105, a decent number, 28-135 they're around, 24-150!?! There are some 18-135 lenses that would hit that as an equivalent range, but you say you're looking for that as the APS-C range... so we're looking for a FF lens that's 42- 225ish. The only things that come to mind are the other superzooms, none of which are optically stellar. I guess there is the Sony 24-240 FE lens, only a 10x zoom rather than the more typical 20x+ of 18-200. Fun fact, the 18-200 is the only NX lens that saw production in Japan, makes one wonder if there was any foul play, lol. It's not missing focus so much in the bright sunlight as it is just that soft at the longer focal lengths, manual focus it, it isn't any sharper. At 18 the lens is quite decent, but if you only needed the wide end then there's lots of other options. Go with two lenses, even like the 16-50 PZ and 50-200 combo work out well and are cheaper together. If you're using it for video it's quite decent, and I guess it's video where having that range in one lens is most useful. Anyway, the 18-200 is the only lens I have bought for which I'm unsure why I still own it. Sometimes I think I'll avoid the hassle of taking more lenses and just take the 18-200, give it another chance on a walk... 10 minutes later I'm back home to take two other lenses instead. Marco Tecno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandro Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 39 minutes ago, ttbek said: I'm struggling to think of many examples for any system that cover that range. 24-70, plenty, 24-105, a decent number, 28-135 they're around, 24-150!?! There are some 18-135 lenses that would hit that as an equivalent range, but you say you're looking for that as the APS-C range... so we're looking for a FF lens that's 42- 225ish. The only things that come to mind are the other superzooms, none of which are optically stellar. I guess there is the Sony 24-240 FE lens, only a 10x zoom rather than the more typical 20x+ of 18-200. Fun fact, the 18-200 is the only NX lens that saw production in Japan, makes one wonder if there was any foul play, lol. It's not missing focus so much in the bright sunlight as it is just that soft at the longer focal lengths, manual focus it, it isn't any sharper. At 18 the lens is quite decent, but if you only needed the wide end then there's lots of other options. Go with two lenses, even like the 16-50 PZ and 50-200 combo work out well and are cheaper together. If you're using it for video it's quite decent, and I guess it's video where having that range in one lens is most useful. Anyway, the 18-200 is the only lens I have bought for which I'm unsure why I still own it. Sometimes I think I'll avoid the hassle of taking more lenses and just take the 18-200, give it another chance on a walk... 10 minutes later I'm back home to take two other lenses instead. OK it would have been fun to see a cheap Tamron for the NX :D You're right no super zoom is steller but no one is ad bad as the 18-200mm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucabutera Posted August 7, 2016 Author Share Posted August 7, 2016 14 hours ago, cojocaru27 said: nice work luca, thx for the effort. May i ask you what happen to the nikon adapter? As you, i have the nikon 50 1.4d lens and i would love to see some updated tests with this lens. What is the status on this one? This is shot with Nikon Nikkor 50mm 1.4 AF + NXL speed booster Prototype. cisco150 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlic Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 On 6. 8. 2016 at 3:38 PM, lucabutera said: A tenth lower and slamming into the sensor, a tenth farther and slammed into the lens. Find the right setting to infinity focus it seemed impossible, and some moments I was throwing in the towel with canon EF mount to return to Nikon. All this for 0.05 of a millimeter (Canon EF mount is definitely the final flange focal distance limit). Is the lens really that close to the sensor? Is there any risk of damaging it? Do you make your own glass or is it repurposed from another speed booster? Thanks Marco Tecno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cojocaru27 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 it looks really promising luca. looking forward for it to be available. do u have an aprox deadline? and some pictures with the adapter and the lens on top of nx1 would be awesome. thx a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlic Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I cant wrap my head around what kind of mount you have in mind that will fit all manufacturers. By replacable flanges maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlic Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I cant wrap my head around what kind of mount you have in mind that will fit all manufacturers. By replacable flanges maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 4 hours ago, carlic said: I cant wrap my head around what kind of mount you have in mind that will fit all manufacturers. By replacable flanges maybe? no, not all manufacturers. He's doing an ef mount speedbooster adapter. but you can adapt a lot of lenses to ef, like he listed. cisco150 and iamoui 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucabutera Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 10 hours ago, cojocaru27 said: it looks really promising luca. looking forward for it to be available. do u have an aprox deadline? and some pictures with the adapter and the lens on top of nx1 would be awesome. thx a lot. This is the NXL SB "for all lenses". Liam, MountneerMan, cisco150 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MountneerMan Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I am really interested in this as well. How are you making them? Any pictures of the fabrication process would be nice to see as well Keep up the good work. Marco Tecno, cisco150, vaga and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel D Prichystal Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 For less earning people who are interested, could you tell us "expected" price? Just something close to what you have in mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucabutera Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 55 minutes ago, Pavel D Prichystal said: For less earning people who are interested, could you tell us "expected" price? Just something close to what you have in mind? Hello Pavel, thank you for your interest. These days I'm tightening commercial agreements with suppliers of parts and artisans. I would like to reach a selling price as those metabones 449.00 / $ 499.00 each. This is a great price considering it is built by hand in Italy and you can mount almost all the best full frame lenses on the market. Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel D Prichystal Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 And that is for the dumb adapter, non electronical right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlic Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 4 minutes ago, lucabutera said: Hello Pavel, thank you for your interest. These days I'm tightening commercial agreements with suppliers of parts and artisans. I would like to reach a selling price as those metabones 449.00 / $ 499.00 each. This is a great price considering it is built by hand in Italy and you can mount almost all the best full frame lenses on the market. Luca, I am a mechanical engineer from Slovenia and have a lot of connections for cnc part manufacturing since I design industrial machines. Maybe we can try to work together to possibly cut the price down even more? I also own an NX1, and have acces to a bunch of canon glass as well. Marco Tecno and kidzrevil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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