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Daily life with some old EF glass and a new M6 Mark II

Started Jan 4, 2021 | Photos thread
OP davecheng Junior Member • Posts: 32
Re: Daily life with some old EF glass and a new M6 Mark II

thunder storm wrote:

The Viltrox does not seem to like f/1.2 primes, though. The AF hunts, never locks on, and the live view image brightness "twitches" continuously.

I've ordered the Metabones EF-M speed booster

That one is too expensive in my opinion.

Yeah, it's hard to justify the Metabones at three times the cost of the Viltrox. The few available online comparisons seem to indicate they are comparable in terms of centre sharpness. That said, I've had my Metabones now for a couple days, and it's a keeper for me.

The Metabones has better off-centre sharpness. It appears to colour the resulting image a lot less than the Viltrox — both in terms of a colour cast, and what it does to the bokeh. The Vilrtrox introduces a slight swirly quality to the out of focus areas.

I feel the Metabones is more faithful to what the lens would actually look like on a FF camera. But most importantly, the Metabones works with my f/1.2 primes, whereas I couldn't get the Viltrox to work at all.

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