rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Metabones is producing a new "speed booster" - the "Q666". I would provide a link here, but because management here seems to believe in discussion without knowledge, I cannot provide a link right now without relegating this to the low traffic L&R section.

To my way of thinking, this release is kind of strange. It allows one to mount a Nikon G lens on a Pentax Q camera; the G lens makes lots of sense, but Pentax hasn't released a new "Q" in several years, and many of us who own a Q don't expect another one. The Q-7 {which I have} and the Q-S1 {most recent release} each has a 1/1.7" sensor, so this device will result in a 2.3 crop of the rated length of the lens while roughly "doubling" the speed - Metabones is bragging an f-stop of f/0.666 for a lens rated at f/1.2

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

For those of you {probably most of you} unfamiliar with the "Q" family, here are a couple of pictures of my Q-7

standard Q-7 kit


Sigma K-mount 70-300mm lens mounted via adapter

SS319

What was that link again?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Sorry, I forgot to follow my first post with this
http://www.metabones.com/products/details/MB_SPNFG-Q-BM1

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I'm not getting much of a reaction here. I really do want to know why Metabones would do such a thing, why they would put any effort at all into a product with very limited likely market {unless they were able to increase sales of the Q-S1}. A certain amount of the $489 has to cover production costs, so I don't see how they will ever cover design costs.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I could see the value of an adapter that halves your smallest f-stop. I wonder if there is a cheaper manual adapter that could do this for Nikon lenses on a Nikon DSLR. Wouldn't want any auto features, but getting the equivalent of half the depth of field would be interesting for me.