Metabones Speed Booster – FS100 vs 5D Mark III from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

The Metabones Speed Booster may be the highlight of the moment. We have two new reviews out there that underline the superb image quality you get thanks to the Speed Booster. Andrew from EosHD (Click here) wrote a long review is extremely surprised by the good performance of the adapter. There is almost not problem, just a tiny bit of sharpness loss on the corners. And the second test has been done by Robert from Lensrentals (Click here). And he likes it a lot: “The Speed Booster does what they said it would do, much to my shock and surprise“.

The Metabones adapter suddenly makes your lens faster and wider giving you a more “Full Frame” rendering. At least so is what reviewers tell us. Can’t wait to test it on my mirrorless camera! You can preorder the adapter at Metabones directly. Or if you prefer save this search on Slidoo to get notified when it will be available on eBay too.

Micro Four Thirds is dead…long live Micro Four Thirds!

The MFT system is now five years old and despite all the strong competition from Sony, Nikon, Canon, Samsung and others it is still the most popular and complete mirrorless system. And the group of companies supporting it just became bigger with the entries of Blackmagic Design Ltd, JK Imaging Ltd, Photron Ltd, SVS-VISTEK GmbH, View Plus Inc. (Source: Olympus Japan). The one you know best is certainly Blackmagic while JK Imaging shake the last week with their announcement of a Kodak branded MFT camera.

Enough talking…what about real new products? Olympus is rumored to release a new semi professional MFT camera and a new fast zoom for Spring. And the upcoming CP+ show is not the place Olympus has choose to announce it. So sleep well these days, there will be no amazing announcement yet as Panasonic, Samsung, Canon and maybe Sony too will announce new stuff in March-April only.

We all like mirrorless cameras but I never thought we could go so far to also get rid of the glass of the lens to take images. Engineers at Duke University now created a metamaterial imaging sensor that doesn’t require a lens to generate a picture. Engadget reports: “The sensor is a flexible copper-plated sheet patterned with small squares that capture various light frequencies all at once, functioning like one big aperture. Add a few circuits with a pinch of software and the sensor-only camera can produce up to ten images per second, but the catch is Duke’s only works at microwave frequencies. Microwave imaging is used plenty, however, and due to its flexibility and lack of moving parts, the sensor could be used to build better integrated, cheaper airport scanners and vehicle collision avoidance technology — making you safer however you choose to travel. Unless you take the train. Then you’re on your own.“

This may be the future of digital Imaging…sometimes between 2170 and 2300. So keep your (real) mirrorless camera for now!

Surprise! Kodak finally displayed their first mirrorless system camera and they decided to join the popular Micro Four Thirds system! In an official press conference in Peking they announced the “Kodak S1” which will be released in Q3 of this year. There is no info about the exact specs but it should use a Sony CMOS sensor and built-in WiFi.
Source: PConline

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Metabones just announced the new “Speed Booster” adapter which increases the speed and sharpness of any FF or APS-C lens by reducing the on sensor projected image circle. It will be first available for E-Mount in January 2013 from Metabones’ web site http://www.metabones.com and its worldwide dealer network for US$599 / £372 plus shipping and applicable taxes and duties. The MFT and X mount versions will come later this year.

Philip Bloom is the first having tested the lens: