lucabutera

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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).

First fast test.

I love the "Gold Ring" on Samsung NX1... It will be a very long wedding!

Updates NXL NX / EF:

Hi, I worked on this adapter for a few consecutive days, the biggest difficulty was finding the right point of distance between the lens and sensor.

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).
Now fortunately, the system works perfectly and soon will publish the first tests with Nx1 camera.
See you soon.

1 hour ago, shanebrutal said:

The nx500 4k mode crop is more than the nx1. It's closer to super 16. I believe 2.5x? So it will be interesting to see how it performs with the speedbooster.

The NX 500, in 4k have a cutout similar to m 4/3, with Speed Booster get a aps-c format. Like NX1!

9 hours ago, shanebrutal said:

Awesome work Luca!

Will it also work on the nx500? Should bring it closer to super 35 crop in 4k mode.

Thank's, yes! It will work on all samsung nx cameras, my tested it on nx1 and nx100. The crop is more to s35, it's same full frame 35mm dslr.

2 hours ago, Marco Tecno said:

What about konica hexanon? They have some nice lenses, easy to find cheap.

Sorry, konica is short mount. it's impossible. 

1 hour ago, Daniel Galli said:

Im follow your progress a lot but i get a little confused.

for use the speedboster would be need to modify the body camera?

if i get the nikon adapter i can just put a cheap m42 adapter the iris control will work perfectly?

this is something i was expecting so much, count me with one purchase!

 

No, you do not modify the body camera. If you get a speed booster EF, you can use all full frame lenses: Canon EF, Sigma SA, Praktica (baionet P/B),Minolta AF/Sony Alpha, Exakta, M39 ( ZM39), M42, Pentax k, Contax/Yashica (C/Y), DKL mount, Yashica MA,  Olympus OM, Nikon G/F , Leica R, Arri STD-B-PL, Mini T - T - T2 mount, Novolfex A mount.

One speed booster for all lenses! Are you happy?

50 minutes ago, sandro said:

Is it being  controlled electronically? Aperture seems to change? Focused manually?

Only manual control in this time. Change auto iso and shutter, no iris control with canon lens. Yes focused manualy.

Samsung nx100 + NX/EF SB + CANON 50MM 1.8 II

I CAN DO IT!

15 minutes ago, iamoui said:

Amazing! Any chances for a Canon FD NXL?

It is difficult, the distance of the sensor to the flange, the FD system is the shortest of all, also the rear fitting has linkages that do not allow the assembly.

3 minutes ago, sandro said:

F8 on NXL equals to F7.1 right?

1 stop more is 5.6.

This is the focal test:

1 picture, NX1 + NXL adapter + 50mm Nikkor Nikon 1.4 AF (aperture F8, Focal 50mm);

2 picture, NX1 + 16-50 OIS (aperture F8, Focal 38mm);

3 picture, NX1 + 16-50 OIS ( aperture F8, Focal 50mm).

(All picture it's taken freehand).

Are welcome your comments!

On 30/7/2016 at 11:49 PM, Otto K said:

@kidzrevil  Non Posso Parlare per gli Altri, ma ho NX500 quindi non EVF da me

Grande lavoro di Luca, ho provato Qualcosa di simile (ma molto Più primitivo) con M42 Molto tempo fa, ma non Sono riuscito a posizionare Gli Elementi Aggiunti Abbastanza Preciso e ha ottenuto RISULTATI Per lo più inutili - i RISULTATI Sono Molto Positivi!

Per Quanto riguarda Canon vs Nikon - Sì, e vero Che una causa della flangia Più adattatore dritto non funziona, ma Cerchiamo di Aspettare e Vedere la amount di

34 minutes ago, vaga said:

@lucabutera can you explain what exactly a "speed booster" is and why that's different than a regular adapter? I get that it has a lens in it. 

Hi vaga, this can help you http://rubenkremer.nl/2013/11/26/focal-reducers-speedbooster-lens-turbo-and-light-cannon/

On 29/7/2016 at 0:45 AM, SMGJohn said:

It would be a gift from God if someone could make electric contact for Nikon speedbooster so the stabiliser at least works.

But I am definitely fetching that dumb adapter non the less.

DIS in video mod work perfectly but resize the visualization. 

On 30/7/2016 at 2:44 PM, cojocaru27 said:

luca, what is the focal distance with your adapter for nikon 50mm 1.4D , couldn't be 50mm, isn't it? and also the dof is even more shallow, at 1.4d? i am asking as i have exactly the same lens and now the focal is around 75mm. anyways when can i register for a preorder ?

Hello cojocaru27, very soon it will be possible to pre-orders. I believe we are around 55-58mm. The DOF 1.4 is awesome! full aperture form large and very nice oval ball!

6 hours ago, Liam said:

do you know anyone you could team up with to make some of these and sell them, Luca? I understand it's pretty difficult. someone like Richard Gale probably has the skill set at least, probably others on this site have some experience in that. 

also, did you have to completely change the nx mount? you said you had to work on the camera body as well. does glass go into the mount enough to interfere with the shutter maybe? can you say which speedbooster brand you modified for this? just curious

Liam Have faith, and again a few weeks of patience.
Before selling my NXL adapter, I have to do many tests to be sure that it works best.
As soon as I finish the "pre-series" model in the early days of August, I'll start with pre-orders. 

6 hours ago, Marco Tecno said:

Luca, you really need somehow to build also the intelligent speedbooster. I see many, many ppl interested into it.

I knew guys in a "hackspace" that can help you plan a SB Canon EF with manual iris control.

5 hours ago, cojocaru27 said:

that's good news @Luca , long expected but finally arrived.

What is going on with the adapter? my nikon lenses can't wait to here from you

Hi Cojocaru, I'm currently testing another positioning of the lens near to the sensor. that allows me to gain a few millimeters to distance to the camera lens.
The first tests are very encouraging and I hope to have the lens pre-series ready for August.