Review of metabones adapter mark v - canon ef to sony e-mount

What works well

It works as advertised

I tested the Metabones V adapter primarily with the Sony A7rIII and Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 II, as this is my preferred shooting setup. For comparison with how autofocus would function on a native Sony lens, I also shot with the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 and Sony 24-240mm lenses.

While testing the adapter, I was blown away by the autofocus system’s speed and accuracy when using my Canon 24-70mm. Not only could I use most of the autofocus settings on the camera (with the exception of Zone area focus), but eye autofocus also worked extremely well. Even when shooting in continuous burst mode at 10 frames per second, there was no lag when using a Canon lens and the adapter.

Generally speaking, it felt nearly the same as using a native Sony lens on the A7rIII. The same can’t be said for the cheaper FotodioX lens adapter that I was using previously. This other adapter worked with only half of my lenses and had inconsistent and slow autofocus. In that sense, you truly get what you pay for when it comes to camera gear (the FotodioX is $99 compared to the Metabones at $399).

Small and compact

Weighing in at 5.3 ounces (150g) and measuring 2.6 x 1.4 x 3 inches (6.6 x 3.6 x 7.6 cm), this slick adapter is compact and easy to stash in a camera bag. It feels about equivalent in size to the Canon 1.4X EF Extender. The Metabones V adapter comes in a plastic box that can you use for long-term storage, but unfortunately, there is no carrying case.

You can easily receive firmware updates

Besides a couple of buttons and indicator lights, there’s also a micro-USB port that can connect the adapter to a computer for firmware upgrades.

Product Specifications

The Metabones Canon EF to Sony E Mount Smart Adapter Mark V officially debuted in July 2017. It’s all black and made of metal. Compared to previous generation adapters, the Mark V adds three key features:

A dedicated on/off switch for SteadyShot (IBIS)
Rubber gasket weather seals to protect the E-mount connection
An indicator light for basic/advanced modes

Other features offered by the Metabones V include:

Fast contrast-detection and phase-detect autofocus
Eye autofocus (!!)
Powered by camera body (no external power source needed)
Support of image stabilization lenses
Auto “APS-C Size Capture” on full-frame cameras

Currently, theMetabones Adapter Mark V can be purchased for $399 USD.

Here you see the adapter mounting a Canon EF lens onto a Sony body.

TOKINA EF LENSES (APS)

Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Canon Mount

Metabones: Not Yet TestedFotodiox: Not Yet TestedViltrox: Not Yet Tested
NOTES: Image Stabilization functions best with Metabones (with fw 0.41) on a7RII.

Tokina AT-X 11-20mm f/2.8 PRO DX Lens for Canon EF

Metabones: Not Yet TestedFotodiox: Not Yet TestedViltrox: Not Yet Tested
NOTES: Image Stabilization functions best with Metabones (with fw 0.41) on a7RII.

Tokina 12-28mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro APS-C Lens for Canon

Metabones: Not Yet TestedFotodiox: Not Yet TestedViltrox: Not Yet Tested
NOTES: Image Stabilization functions best with Metabones (with fw 0.41) on a7RII.

Performance

Ergonomics

The heavily knurled outside makes it easy to grab and mount and unmount, but during actual use it wears down the skin on the upper side of my middle finger with my big American hands.

The AF Lock button is a great idea, but it’s in a difficult place to reach.

Exposure

Exposure is fine.

This can be a problem with simpler adapters that don’t communicate the lens speed and confuse evaluative metering, but all seems fine here.

Falloff

Since there are no automated lens corrections, there will be no automated correction of lens falloff at large apertures to which you may be accustomed with Sony lenses.

Auto White Balance

Auto White Balance is fine.

On primitive adapters with no electronic communication this sometimes can be a problem, but with this modern electronic adapter everything works as intended.

Lateral Color Fringes

Since there are no automated lens corrections, there will be no automated correction of lateral color (corner color fringes).

If you use flawless lenses like the Canon Fluorite 300mm f/2.8 L this isn’t a problem, but if your lens has any of these color fringes, the camera won’t be correcting them for you as you may be accustomed with Sony’s own lenses.

Mechanical Quality

Metabones Canon EF to Sony E Mount Smart Adapter T Mark V. bigger.

It’s all metal.

Standard ¼″ × 20 thread.

Made in

China.

Sharpness

The adapter has no optics; it’s just air inside an empty barrel with electronics.

While the adapter does nothing to alter a lens’ performance, different brands of lenses may or may not work well on a Sony camera because of sensor particulars.

While film is sensitive to light that hits it from any angle, camera sensors are very particular with the arrangement of microlenses and light-sensitive wells, and different lenses may or my not appear sharp if you look at thngs under a microscope in the corners on a Sony camera, even if the lens is creating a flawless image. You have to try and conform for yourself.

Image Stabilization

If the Canon lens has IS, it will work.

If your Sony camera has sensor-shift stabilization, which most do, that works, too. You can turn this off and on easily with the slide switch on the adapter.

This adapter passes data.

Your files will have the focal length and aperture logged in the EXIF data.

I haven’t seen that the lens model is encoded in the EXIF data for any lens, so while the file will know it was shot at, say, 21mm, it won’t log if it was shot with a 12-24mm or 16-35mm lens, even if it’s a Sony lens with no adapter.

ZEISS ZE LENSES

Zeiss ZE lenses are manual focus lenses and no AF adapter will change that. Lens adapters communicate electronic functions like aperture and lens metadata – but these lenses remain manual focus – just the way Zeiss designed them:

Zeiss ZE 15mm f/2.8 Distagon T* Lens

Metabones: Manual focus lens – adapter provides electronic aperture controlFotodiox: Manual focus lens – adapter provides electronic aperture controlViltrox: Manual focus lens – adapter provides electronic aperture control

Zeiss ZE 18mm f/3.5 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 21mm f/2.8 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 25mm f/2.0 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 28mm f/2.0 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 50mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 85mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 100mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 135mm f/2 Apo Sonnar T* Lens

Key Features

Features and benefits

Limitations

Metabones Exclusive

If both your lens supports optical image stabilization (OIS) and your camera supports sensor-shift, in-body image stabilization (IBIS), the choice is yours on which one to use, or have both of them work in harmony.
Smooth iris support with the latest Canon (2009+), Tamron (SP series 2013+) and Sigma (2016+) lenses.
Custom function button (called Focus Hold button) assignable to more than 50 functions, such as Aperture Preview and Eye-AF, on A9, A7 series, A6500 and A6300.
Cinema EOS lens (CN-E) support, including power zoom, AF and auto iris.
Detachable tripod foot, compatible with Arca Swiss, Markins and Photo Clam ball heads.

Electronic

AF-C tracking during high speed drive at up to 10fps on Sony A9. (NOT applicable to A7R Mark III or A7 Mark III, refer to footnote number of Sony’s A7 Mark III press release for limitations.)
Fast contrast-detection AF on all E-mount cameras (except AF-S/DMF with Sony A9).
Pure phase-detection autofocus support on A9, A7RII, A7II, A6500 and A6300 (the fastest).
Supports 5-axis in-body image stabilization of A7II, A7RII and A7SII. (Distance information from lens required; 3-axis IBIS if lens does not transmit distance information.)
Powered by camera body. No external power source required.
Efficient switched-mode power supply.
Supports image stabilization (IS) lenses.
Supports electronic manual focusing (e.g. EF 85/1.2L II and discontinued EF 50/1.0L)
EXIF support (focal length, aperture, lens name)
Distance and zoom display on VG and FS series camcorders, A9, A7 series, A6500 and A6300 (lens with distance information support required).
Auto magnify (lens with distance information support required)
Auto APS-C Size Capture» on full-frame cameras with Canon EF-S lenses and many third party DX lenses.

Optical/mechanical

Felt material flocked inside the opening to reduce internal reflection.
Fits both EF and EF-S lenses. (Vignetting at corners may occur with certain EF-S lenses because they are designed to cover a 1.6x crop image circle but Sony APS-C has a 1.5x crop factor.)

Autofocus

Use of Canon Cinema lenses such as CN-E 18-80mm T4.4 for still photography is not supported. (Functional, but slower than lenses designed for still photography.)
On Sony A9, only phase-detection autofocus is supported. Contrast-detection autofocus does not work. See firmware release notes for details.
AF may not work if the maximum aperture of the lens plus any EF Extender or other teleconverter attached is smaller than f/8.
The first two autofocus attempts are used to calibrate the lens and as a result may not lock successfully on the target. Half-press the shutter release button again and autofocus will lock successfully.
Autofocus may have difficultly locking onto subjects which are very close to the nearest focusing distance of the lens.
Autofocus accuracy depends heavily on the design and working condition of the lens. Lenses with hidden problems which may not be apparent on Canon DSLRs will lead to inaccurate and unreliable autofocus on Sony. Typical problems of this kind that we have seen include an unsmooth/erratic autofocus mechanism (e.g. getting stuck intermittently at a certain focusing distance), a faulty/worn-out distance encoder or other faulty/worn-out internal sensors.

Other

No support for lens corrections such as peripheral shading, CA and distortion.
Use of Canon Cinema lenses such as CN-E 18-80mm T4.4 for still photography is not supported.
Some EF-mount lenses may make audible noises during iris changes and autofocus, wich may be picked up by the built-in microphone of the camera during video recording. Use of an external microphone is advised. Some of the recently-introduced Canon-brand lenses are very quiet, however.
Early Tamron VC lenses such as the AF 28-300/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical Macro (model A20), AF 18-270/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical MACRO (model B003), SP AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical (model B005) may not be able to freely switch between OIS and IBIS because they may not report IS activity status. Later Tamron VC lenses equipped with USD or PZD focus motors are fine.
Some aftermarket battery grips may cause the aperture to change erraneously. This is a bug of the aftermarket battery grip but NOT arising from the Metabones Smart Adapter. Turn off the aftermarket battery grip or use a genuine Sony battery grip.

Enhancement on new MARK IV (MB_EF-E-BT4) vs. old MARK IV (MB_EF-E-BM4):

The inner opening is lined with flocking material coating. This will further reduce internal reflection when a tilt-shift (TS) lens is used.

Disclaimer: we are NOT licensed, approved or endorsed by Sony or Canon.

Compatibility

This adapter works with . It doesn’t work with any of .

It works with Canon EF (use the red index dot) and EF-S (use the white index dot) lenses.

Metabones Canon EF to Sony E Mount Smart Adapter T Mark V. bigger.

I tried it with my Sony A9 and these lenses:

Canon 16-35mm f/4 L IS

Scene, 07 July 2017. bigger or full-resolution file.

I’m impressed, it’s actually super-sharp, which is nearly unheard of with adapted ultrawide lenses.

Both the lens’ own IS and the camera’s sensor-shift stabilization work great together.

AF works fine.

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II

Palm, 07 July 2017. bigger or full-resolution file.

Again impressive is that this combination is pretty sharp and focuses well, and you get the benefit of in-camera stabilization.

This sample is shot wide-open at f/2.8, so of course the lower corner and other things aren’t in focus.

Canon 28-105mm USM II

Ryan at the orthodontist, 06 July 2017. Sony A9 with Canon 28-105mm USM II on Metabones Mark V adapter at 1/125 at Auto ISO 320. bigger or full-resolution file.

Katie at the orthodontist, 06 July 2017. Sony A9 with Canon 28-105mm USM II on Metabones Mark V adapter at 1/125 at Auto ISO 320. bigger or full-resolution file.

This 1990s lens usually works well, picking up free in-camera stabilization, but for whatever reason the camera doesn’t always recognize the lens immediately. Some times I’ll see an » F — — » indication in the finder instead of a real aperture. Even then it still shoots, but at God knows what aperture.

As you can see even with this used $75 lens, it gives super-sharp pictures.

Canon 35mm f/1.4 L

Everything seems swell with my 35/1.4, picking up free stabilization in the process.

As with most Canon lenses if you’re shooting in silent mode, you may hear a slight tick as the diaphragm stops down for each shot.

Canon 50mm f/1 L

Plant, 07 July 2017. bigger.

While everything works with my classic ultra-ultraspeed f/1.0 lens, autofocus performance isn’t very good. AF isn’t very fast and can tend to get lost, and it’s not very accurate.

Manual focus works swell, and of course this lens is incredible in the dark.

For the best results, focus manually or use the Canon 50mm f/1.2 L instead:

Canon 50mm f/1.2 L

It works great with Canon’s current ultra-speed lens — a faster lens than anything current from Sony or Nikon or ZEISS. It focuses well and it’s sharp, and you get free image stabilization.

It works fine with this old, cheap 1990s lens, again adding sensor-shift stabilization

It’s reasonably sharp, too.

Canon 100-400mm IS L II

Katie at Get Air, 18 July 2017. Sony A9 with Canon 100-400mm L IS II on Metabones Mark V adapter at 227mm at f/5 at 1/500 at Auto ISO 8,000, Perfectly Clear. bigger.

Palm, 07 July 2017. bigger or camera-original file.

I’m impressed again; this state of the art lens is super-sharp on my Sony, and it focuses well.

The stabilizers in-camera and in-lens work well; I’ve hand-held this tele at 1/20 of a second!

While AF works well, it doesn’t work as well as this lens works on a Canon camera. As adapted to Sony, it sometimes can hang-up or get lost if you’re far out of focus, while on a Canon camera it never gets lost. If it gets stuck, just grab the big focus ring to get it in the neighborhood, and the Sony’s AF will take it from there and track just fine.

Canon 300mm f/2.8 L

Katie in the pool, 06 July 2017. Sony A9 with Canon 300mm f/2.8 L on Metabones Mark V adapter at f/2.8 at 1/1,250 at Auto ISO 100. bigger or full-resolution file.

My classic 1980s fluorite 300/2.8 works GREAT! It’s ultra-sharp and focuses well, and I get free stabilization in-camera. Ha!

While AF can get lost if it’s far out of focus, in actual use where you have the focus not that far off, it’s amazing how well this classic lens works and tracks focus and gives ultrasharp after ultrasharp image at f/2.8 on the newest Sony camera.

What needs improving

For all of the excellent qualities of the Metabones V adapter, there are two shortcomings worth mentioning.

First is the occasional freezing of the camera screen while trying to autofocus. You can fix the problem by simply turning the camera off and on. However, this lag slows down your workflow and makes you question reliability. This problem happens sporadically, mostly with my Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 II, but it never happens when using native Sony lenses.

Another shortcoming is the loss of touchscreen autofocus when using a Canon lens and the Metabones V adapter. One of the biggest selling points of new Sony cameras such as the A7rIII is touchscreen autofocus. While it’s a bit laggy and imperfect even when using Sony lenses, touchscreen autofocus seems to disappear altogether when using adapted lenses. Hopefully, this will be fixed with future a firmware update.

Recommendations

This is the best adapter I’ve used. My Canon lenses usually focus very well, are usually very sharp, and every crazy lens I tried worked. On other brands of adapters, like Fotodiox, some of my lenses wouldn’t work.

Adapters for Sony were critical back in 2013 when the first full-frame A7 came out and Sony had few, if any, serious lenses available.

Today Sony has a , so ideally get the Sony lens you want and it will work even better than an adapted lens. Canon lenses are awesome when shot on Canon cameras, but ultimately a Sony GM lens will work better on Sony than an adapted Canon lens.

Sony’s lenses are optimized for the AF systems and sensors of the Sony cameras, so they will focus faster than an adapted lens, and likewise Canon’s lenses may be ultrasharp on Canon, but they may or may not be ultrasharp when shot on the Sony sensors which require slightly different optical designs. Sony’s GM lenses are always ultra sharp on Sony cameras.

With adapters, your camera may take longer to turn on as the lens, adapter and camera computers try to figure out what’s going on. You may or may not get the super-fast turn-on you get with Sony’s own lenses on an A9, for instance.

Ultimately if this $400 adapter lets you reuse an exotic lens you already own or isn’t available from Sony, like a 300mm f/2.8, this adapter makes a lot of sense. However, if all you’re doing is trying to delay the inevitable, which is manning-up and just buying the real pro Sony lenses for your Sony camera that you know you really want, just get the Sony lenses you deserve. The smart money is always on getting the best lenses you want.

If you’re wondering how well any of your lenses will work on your camera, no worries. Get your Mark V adapter from Adorama, Amazon or B&H and you can simply return it for a cash refund if you don’t love it. There’s no reason to guess when you can try it yourself with you own equipment.

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Conclusion:

Each of the three adapters performed slightly better with certain lenses yet the overall performance was fairly comparable. The $100 adapters from Fotodiox and Viltrox look identical but the results while close were not identical so it’s possible they are idenical in construction but with different firmware. I had to tighten the lens mount screws on the Viltrox repeatedly over the course of testing. If this happens to you I suggest applying a dab of Loctite on the screw threads (clear nail polish will do in a pinch) then tightening down firmly with a jewelers Phillips head screw driver.

As I said in the introduction, Metabones Smart Adapter IV with (Firmware 0.41 and later) is the only adapter that allows you to use the lens IS switch to choose between using lens-based optical Image Stabilization and Sony a7II/a7RII IBIS. Firmware on the Fotodiox and Viltrox adapters is not user-updatable.

Because of this I recommend that anyone who plans to use Canon IS lenses on Sony a7II or a7RII cameras stick to Metabones. But if you never plan to use Canon IS lenses on Sony IBIS cameras such as a7II and a7RII you can save yourself a few hundred dollars with Fotodiox or Viltrox.

Acknowledgements:

Huge thanks to my friends at B&H Photo, Menashe Wodinsky, Jesica Bruzzi, Michael Hollender, Yosef Brown and all the nice folks behind the counter in the new and used departments at B&H for their assistance in compiling this report. You guys ROCK!

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Description

Tested Camera Bodies:

PDAF support *

A9 II, A9, A7R IV, A7R III, A7S III, A7III, A7R II, A7II, A6600, A6500, A6400, A6300

* Contax N lenses are not compatible with contrast-detection autofocus mirrorless cameras — no AF support for E-Mount cameras other than the models listed above.
IBIS support (full 5-axis in-body image stabilization) **

A9 II, A9, A7R IV, A7RIII, A7III, A7RII, A7II, A7SIII, A6600, A6500

** The Contax 645 Makro-Planar 4/120 lens does not report distance information and supports only 3-axis in-body image stabilization

Lens Compatibility Chart

The following Contax N mount lenses are supported and tested:

In addition, the following Contax 645 lenses, adapted to Contax N-mount by Contax NAM-1 adapter (not included), are supported and tested

Vario-Sonnar T* 2,8/17-35

Vario-Sonnar T* 3,5-4,5/24-85

Vario-Sonnar T* 3,5-5,6/28-80

Vario-Sonnar T* 3,5-4,5/70-200

Vario-Sonnar T* 4-5,6/70-300

Planar T* 1,4/50

Planar T* 1,4/85

Makro-Sonnar T* 2,8/100

Apo-Teletessar T* 4/400

Vario-Sonnar T* 4,5/45-90

Distagon T* 3,5/35

Distagon T* 2,8/45

Distagon T* 3,5/55

Planar T* 2/80

Apo-Makro-Planar T* 4/120

Sonnar T* 2,8/140

Sonnar T* 4/210

Apo-Teletessar T* 4/350

Mutar 1.4x T*

Why Metabones?

Since its inception, Metabones has been designing and manufacturing lens adapters recognized among professionals and enthusiasts as leaders in design and workmanship.

Contrary to the popular trend of other factories using an aluminum ring painted black on the camera-body-side, we instead take no short-cut but use precision-machined brass with chromium plating on both the camera-body and the lens sides of our adapters, in order to ensure smooth mounting, great appearance, and durability. The lens side of the adapter features a strong leaf-spring structure, strengthening the adapter-lens connection and ensuring tightness of the lens in order to reduce wear and prevent focus errors and optical alignment issues from appearing.

Metabones uses matte-black treatment to keep internal reflection to a minimum in order to maintain the maximum optical quality possible with the lens.

All Metabones Adapters follow this tradition of uncompromising precision, robust build quality and outstanding finish. Our new Smart AdapterTM series of products add industry-leading electronic interfacing technology from Canada, with true electronic control of the lens’ aperture directly from the camera body.

Features

Both camera-side and lens-side of the adapter are made of brass, precision-machined and plated with chromium.
Satin surface finish — just like your OEM lens and camera mounts.
Precise fit and solid connection — lens has no play, gap or wiggling when mounted on adapter and no adjustments are required to fit your lens.
Designed to reach infinity focus while maintaining the correct registration distance required to maintain optical quality of CRC lenses or lenses with floating elements.

Our Smart AdapterTM series adapters have the following additional features

True electronic integration of aperture diaphragm — let camera automatically choose aperture in P or S exposure modes, or dial in yourself on the camera body in A or M modes.
EXIF data such as lens identification, focal length and aperture.

CANON EFS LENSES

Canon EFS lenses are APS format with a very hard vignette edge making them suitable for Sony APS cameras like a6000, a5100, a5000 and NEX – but will only cover APS-crop mode on a7-series cameras.

Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Lens (APS-C)

Metabones: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens (APS-C)

CANON TELECONVERTERS

Canon EF Extenders transmit electronic functions with all three Smart Adapters but with the accompanying light loss you may also lose AF with certain lenses.

Canon Extender EF 1.4x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Lens

Metabones: Offers the fastest AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Canon Extender EF 1.4x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM

Metabones: Manual focus onlyFotodiox: Manual focus onlyViltrox: Accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Canon Extender EF 2x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Metabones: Manual focus onlyFotodiox: Manual focus onlyViltrox: Slow AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Canon Extender EF 2x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM

Metabones: Manual focus onlyFotodiox: Manual focus onlyViltrox: Manual focus only
NOTES: All adapters offer electronic functions using this Canon 2x teleconverter on this F4 lens but none will AF, likely because F8 is the max F-stop with this combination.

SIGMA EF PRIMES

Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Metabones: Good AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Good AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Good AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF Macro for Canon EF

Metabones: Manual Focus Only – AF-S hunts with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Manual Focus Only – AF-S hunts with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Not Tested

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Metabones: Manual Focus Only – AF-S misfocuses with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Slow but accurate AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Not Tested

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Metabones: Very slow AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Very slow AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Very slow AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 85mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Lens For Canon EF

Metabones: Offers the Fastest AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Acceptable AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Acceptable AF-S with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro for Canon EF

Metabones: Manual Focus Only – AF-S misfocuses with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Manual Focus Only – AF-S misfocuses with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasViltrox: Manual Focus Only – AF-S misfocuses with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus Areas

Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX DG HSM Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 500mm f/4.5 EX DG APO HSM Lens for Canon EF

Metabones: Manual Focus Only – AF-S misfocuses with Wide, Center and Flexible Spot Focus AreasFotodiox: Manual Focus OnlyViltrox: Manual Focus Only

CANON TILT/SHIFT

Canon Tilt/Shift lenses are all designed for manual focus only and no AF adapter will change that. But electronic functions like aperture control are supported and lens data is recorded in metadata.

Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Tilt-Shift

Metabones: Manual focus lens, but adapter provides electronic aperture controlFotodiox: Manual focus lens, but adapter provides electronic aperture controlViltrox: Manual focus lens, but adapter provides electronic aperture control

What works well

It works as advertised

Small and compact

You can easily receive firmware updates

Product Specifications

TOKINA EF LENSES (APS)

Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Canon Mount

Tokina AT-X 11-20mm f/2.8 PRO DX Lens for Canon EF

Tokina 12-28mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro APS-C Lens for Canon

Performance

Ergonomics

Exposure

Falloff

Auto White Balance

Lateral Color Fringes

Mechanical Quality

Made in

Sharpness

Image Stabilization

ZEISS ZE LENSES

Zeiss ZE 15mm f/2.8 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 18mm f/3.5 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 21mm f/2.8 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 25mm f/2.0 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 28mm f/2.0 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 Distagon T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 50mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 85mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 100mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* Lens

Zeiss ZE 135mm f/2 Apo Sonnar T* Lens

Key Features

Compatibility

Canon 16-35mm f/4 L IS

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II

Canon 28-105mm USM II

Canon 35mm f/1.4 L

Canon 50mm f/1 L

Canon 50mm f/1.2 L

Canon 100-400mm IS L II

Canon 300mm f/2.8 L

What needs improving

Recommendations

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Description

Lens Compatibility Chart

Why Metabones?

CANON EFS LENSES

Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Lens (APS-C)

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens (APS-C)

CANON TELECONVERTERS

Canon Extender EF 1.4x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Lens

Canon Extender EF 1.4x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM

Canon Extender EF 2x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Canon Extender EF 2x III + Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM

SIGMA EF PRIMES

Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF Macro for Canon EF

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 85mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Lens For Canon EF

Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro for Canon EF

Sigma 300mm f/2.8 EX DG HSM Lens for Canon EF

Sigma 500mm f/4.5 EX DG APO HSM Lens for Canon EF

CANON TILT/SHIFT

Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Tilt-Shift

Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens

Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens

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