Spiratone Macrotar 35mm f3.5 with Nikon F mount
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Reviews (18)
Nov 14, 2019
A light and sturdy hood, perfect for the intended use
I bought this hood for 24mm to 35mm vintage lenses I use for close-ups with an APS-C mirrorless camera. Vintage lens are very often prone to flare. I don't like petal hoods when using M42 lens adapters because I cannot control consistently their rotation. This hood works perflectly, it's light and sturdy enough for my needs.
Oct 25, 2017
An adapter which fulfills its purpose
This adapter works as expected. It allows to use a M39 lens on a M42 to mirrorless adapter or any M42 accessory like a macro tube or helicoid. It adds no thickness to the flange. Notice that on a M42 to camera adapter, it won't give infinity focusing because the flange distance of the M39 mount is shorter than the distance of the M42 mount. For infinity focusing a dedicated M39 to camera adapter is required.
One drawback is that the M39-M42 adapter may be hard to unscrew from the lens. Some M39-M42 adapters have 2 notches for a spanner wrench, this one doesn't. An elastic band can be used.
May 05, 2018
A good value if you don't expect AF stellar performance
I bought the Commlite Canon EF- Sony E-Mount adapter to add a telezoom to my A7ii kit.
The Canon EF mount is 100% electronic. Alternate mounts (Nikon, Pentax) aren't, and adapters for these mounts to Sony e-mount don't exchange data with the body, allowing for instance aperture control from the camera dials and automatic in-body image stabilization (IBIS) from the focal length.
I expected mainly to get:
(1) Full camera aperture control from the camera.
(2) Automatic in-body stabilization from the focal length transmitted to the camera, to avoid entering focal length manually, which can be tedious when using a zoom.
I didn't expect much from AF performance because the MF assistance features of the Sony A7ii are very efficient. On my A7ii the "focus peaking" is activated and the MF magnifier is programmed on the c2 button.
I tested the Commlite adapter with 3 lenses: a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 AF IS USM, a Quantaray AF 70-300 LD Tele-macro 1:2, a rebadged Tamron of the same name, and a Promaster 28-300, a rebadged Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 AF XR LD IF.
I also tried the adapter-lenses combo on two APS-C non-stabilized bodies: a NEX-3N and an a6000.
Here are my findings:
- When using the aperture priority mode ("A"), full aperture control is provided with all lenses on all cameras, from the camera dial. Exposure is accurate.
- AF is of the "contrast detection" kind. Focus moves back and forth the focusing plane until it finds the maximum edges contrast.
- AF does not work with the Tamron-Promaster 28-300 lens, with any camera. It hunts forever or stops in a blurry state.
- AF works with the Canon 70-300 lens, but it's slow. It's certainly not suitable for action photography. And I still prefer MF for any other use.
- AF works with the Tamron-Quantaray 70-300 lens, but it's also slow. However when the macro switch is "on" (between 180mm and 300mm), it stops in a blurry state. Also, I observed some back focusing with the a6000 at 300mm.
- IBIS works fine with the Tamron-Promaster and Tamron-Quantaray lenses.
- On-lens image stabilization (Canon "IS") works with the Canon lens. When the shutter is half-pressed you see the image softly moving in the viewfinder at longer focal lengths. IBIS does not seem activated.
- When Canon IS is switched off on the lens, IBIS does not work either.
- On non-IBIS cameras (the a6000 and the NEX-3N), Canon IS works fine, a very good point.
- Focal length and aperture are in the exif data, but not some useful data like the lens description, which is always "Sony DT 50mm F1.8 SAM (SAL50F18) or Tamron Lens or Commlite CM-EF-NEX adapter"
So, is it a good buy?
Yes, if you want to use your EF mount lenses with automatic in-body stabilization, in MF mode, and if you got it at a fair price.
No if you want efficient AF.
I just read that Commlite released a new HS - High Speed - version of their adapter, which alllows to choose between "contrast detection" vs "phase detection" AF, among other features like an upgradable firmware. Maybe this addresses the AF concerns I observed.