Sony A7 models with non-Sony lenses

I am using metabones III, they sent a new plate that I changed self and that removed the tightness.

tonyniev wrote in post #16916447
I am using metabones III, they sent a new plate that I changed self and that removed the tightness.

do u know if they changed the tightness in later batches, or it is all the same and one needs to change the plate?

absolutic wrote in post #16916451
do u know if they changed the tightness in later batches, or it is all the same and one needs to change the plate?

I read somewhere it is a russian roulette, hope you get a good one.

tonyniev wrote in post #16916454
I read somewhere it is a russian roulette, hope you get a good one.

thanks. if I decide to get the Metabones then, I will go to my local Samys Camera chain, the last time I checked they had a bunch of these in stock, and I will try before I buy.

bring all your lenses...or more than 1 at least. The first unit was tight on 24-105 and very very tight on 17-40 will not fit at all the 100-400 and I think the 70-200, after I changed the plate it worked well.

A7 + zeiss 50 1.4 ZE

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SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #16906914
finally bought an A7R....selling my 5D2

I might do same thing , are you happy with it? which adapter are you using ?
how is the focus speed compare to your EX 5Dii
thanks

a7R and FE35

a7R and EF17-40

tonyniev wrote in post #16916476
bring all your lenses...or more than 1 at least. The first unit was tight on 24-105 and very very tight on 17-40 will not fit at all the 100-400 and I think the 70-200, after I changed the plate it worked well.

That's right. There is actually very little sample-to-sample variation between different Metabones adapters (all of them are made quite a bit tighter than OEM) but considerably greater sample-to-sample variations between different lenses.

I spoke to them and asked them why they didn't just measure every adapter and sort them into a 'tight' group and a 'loose' group, and let the customer choose. Their reply was that they didn't have enough sample-to-sample variation for that to work.

The dilemma here is if the mount is too loose then you run into other kinds of problems, but there is no way for Metabones to predict what lenses YOU have. That's where the plate change thing comes in - the new plates fits YOUR lenses well but may be too loose for other people.

One way or another some people will complain (either too tight or too loose, because different people owns different lenses). Different manufacturers deal with this differently (or not at all, some vendors just make the mount way too loose). Metabones decides to skew towards tight.

Metabones NEX to EF III works very well.

mzondeki wrote in post #16829558
Pairing A7 with SuperTak 50/1.4. The combo looks lovely, so also the images it produce.

Way to go on that superTak. just picked a few up myself. Great glass.

Should i try all my Canon lenses on that Sony with my Metabones adapter and post what i did find? the only 3 lenses i did placed on that Metabones are: Canon TS24II, 16-35L mk1 and Samyang 14mm Canon mount, all mounted flawlessly and no issues, i have 24-105/70-200 to test if anyone would like to know.

a hybrid orchids at the neighborhood supermart. A7r with 55 mm lens.

So I am still trying to convince myself to pull the trigger on this.

I am loaded on the low end for lenses so I am leaning to the sony 55 but how long is that lens... I like the idea that I can use this with my TSE 24 when i NEED and WANT to and then slap the native lens and run when i just want something small and run and gun with. So any size comparisons??? For ultimate compaction I was going to go for the 35 but as I said I am covered on the low end spectrum.