Metabones Speedbooster - Make All Your Camera Lenses Better 

AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke I agree

Yes, Linus.... Brandon has a nice voice.

I agree. I'm an amateur photographer and like the breakdown he gives. Also @Linus don't be mean, lel Brandon get a little too techy about camers. I'd love to see more content were a bridge is made from the technical jargon of the photography world to the basics for those starting out. Why not use your groups photography process as a way to teach people?

I agree, this was awesome!

I wouldn't mind less casual racism from Linus. Brandon doesn't have a discernible (non- canadian) accent.. and Herro joking him on his second trip out? Bad style, even if that's how LTT staff do tease him in the office...

yes

Yeah we do read.

Xtreme Tech yes, i have a screen cap of them all

tsaqib alif Yes, people read these too

Nope, didn't read before i was made aware by the commenters.

When he said affordability he was talking about Dollar Shave Club, not the lens (unless I missed it!) Even still, Brandon is technically a professional photographer/filmer so I'm sure 800USD is affordable to him.

i am sure it is. But is his audience?

At that price, it _may_ be better to buy a faster wide angle zoom than this adapter. One can buy a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens for Canon and Nikon aps-c cameras for less than US$500 on Amazon. I say "may," because the average DSLR user who bought a camera with kit lens(es) won't get much, if any, benefit from using this adapter to widen and "brighten" a basic zoom lens. So, it depends on what you need and your budget. This adapter is clearly targeted at professionals who know what they're doing, so Brandon should have gotten "technical" about his description. For beginning photographers, this adapter would be an expensive toy.

I have that Tokina :) I paid ~$800 though

NuMetal92 I have a Nikon D300, and I use the Tokina 12-24 f/4, which is a nice lens for the price. If I needed wider and faster (which I don't), I would sell this fine lens and buy the Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 instead of an expensive adapter. :)

pretty much how I am too

everett Kirkpatrick So im not alone ?

just you two.

Basically, if you use a lens that's designed for a larger sized sensor on a camera with a smaller sized sensor, some light from the lens is wasted. Some light hits the back of the camera outside the sensor. All a turbo or speed booster does is use an extra element (lens) to correct for that. It takes that wasted light, and focusses it down onto the smaller sensor. The result is a change in field of view (the picture zooms out a little bit), and a brighter image (because each part of the sensor is recieving more light than it was before). It also changes F stop, which in turn changes depth of field... Basically, the subject will be even sharper, and the backgrounds and foregrounds even blurrier. All in all, it's a cheap way to get more performance out of a lens not designed for your camera. For example, I like "fast" lenses (lenses that let a lot of light in). I need a 35mm lens. Recently, I decided that instead of buying a whole new lens, i could take my awesome 60 dollar vintage Nikon 50mm F1.4 lens, stick it on a 120 dollar turbo adapter, and effectively get a 35mm F1.2 lens out of it... It may not sound worth it to put a lens on an adapter that costs twice as much, but when you consider how much if would cost to get a good 35mm F1.2 lens native to my camera... yeah, it's a good deal.

Long Live Waydrek lol.

That's lacist!

no! thats wacist

Rafael Shimabukuro wrarff out roud

i am no native english speaker and i dont get it. whats the catch?

asian people do not pronounce the r and l that well... at least the ones people stereotype (to be fair im asian and i have trouble with the r)

Dropping that casual racism

Laffen47 I didn't get the it, where did he do that?

mbsfaridi 4:47

WistfulBreeze Yep, that I didn't understand.

mbsfaridi Joke against Koreans or more specifically, Kim Jong Un

The Joke -------------- You (^_^)

Do you even comedy, bro?

It was a joke.

Sam Smith I'm dead. xD

You know that was all scripted, right? Right?

Bryce Readyhough yeah can wait till then

***** I feel that you have written one too many "L"s there..

Blandon's Camelas?

Cheng BrandonCameraTIps

MrXxsuper *Lips

He has his own channel

NO MOAR CHANNELS

***** It's impossible to get everything right unless it's weighted like a test in which case you got everything right. A review can never be 100% though

I will never understand this type of "I never give 100%". You have specific terms of rating and specific range of rating where you decide if they meet those terms or dont and if they dont then how mucht they were missing from the top rating. This is another kind of special snowflakes right there.

Le Sexy Fish Horse Giving 100% means they have nothing left to improve.... impossible in entertainment

G3nesis Prime So you are saying that 1+1 will be 1.75 not 2?

Le Sexy Fish Horse Yes :p Tests you can get 100%. It is impossible to get 100% in entertainment. Their is always somethings

Haha that was hilarious

As a non native english speaker, i didn't get the joke. Mind to simplify that joke? thanks

Khai Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Japanese language doesn't really have an "L" and because of that, it is harder for Japanese native speakers to say worlds with L. The closest sound linguistically is a "R" sound. (try sounding them out in your mouth and be aware of where you tongue is in each sound). Because of this, many native japanese speakers struggle with english words with L's in them and tend to pronounce them as R's. ("herro" or in this case, "affordabirrity" vs affordability) Understanding that tidbit of english/Japanese phonetics, we can now take a look at culture. Because of the mass generalizations of Asian people in non Asian areas, many of the noticible problems that are associated with a particular flavor of Asian (korean, taiwanese, chinese, japanese, etc. ) tend to be stereotyped to all Asian people. What Linus did was a crude joke, playing at Brandon's not fully clear enunciation and speaking skills as well as the fact that he's Asian, making him a prime target for the Japanese "L, R" problem even though he isn't Japanese, but some other flavor of asian. Basically, Linus was a dick for making that joke but since when did he ever pull his cheap shots at his staff.

I didnt take it as racism, though many people do because brandon is a different race. I perceived it as linus poking fun at brandon having a few hickups in his presentation. I guess that makes him Languagist.

Christopher Breeden That's how I saw it, people seem to be over reacting a bit to the whole 'racism' thing :')

Brandon's tears of sadness made me feel much more regret :(

Lol

LinusTechTips Stop lying, his tears are delicious and you know it.

To be fair it was funny as FUCK !

My god you are either really annoying or a really good troll

Hahaha. They are crazy! They can magnificate their...... and put it there.

gamerpaddy are you *ucking kidding me

Was considering it so i can add it to my APS C camera. So it can achieve more dof. But $650 is ridiculous.

+kunal pahuja Should be 350$. Like a decent lens. The price stops me from getting it.

Seems like some sort of tripod high hat, with a Benro S8 fluid head and a Kessler Crane Kwik release.

Kyle Phan Look like the Induro Hi-Hat

You don't get autofocus on the Metabones speedboosters.

awwh ok! Thanks guys was getting mixed up with the standard metabones adapters!

You can have autofocus with m43 models tho

It's for manual focus mainly

You will create a portal

Adam Graham reality breaks

🅱️okeh

Nothing? There are many lens with ratios below f1.

Kyler r/whoosh

The vlelly thought! :nP

The dislike can also be attributed to the Linus comment lol. So maybe less dislikes?

No, not really. Its a Brandon-Video, a dislikes shows that you are disliking it. So a dislike means Brandon gets shipped back to South Africa or however that village was called

***** You are a bitch! A wonderful - glorious bitch. Keep it up!

iopabc cool story bro Kappa. Brandon thank you, still not a great description considering my sensor is not smaller then it was originally intended to be. I will look up how these things work with a more "technical" description tomorrow or a less technical one considering I am a neophyte and rusty when it comes to ray diagrams.

Mark, this won't work with "full frame" sensors. Imagine using a lens designed for a full frame camera, but on a camera with a sensor smaller than that. The light that your lens projects into the back of your camera will have a much larger area than your sensor - so, this device shrinks the area of the light that is projected into the back of your camera down to the size of your sensor. This won't work if you're using a typical canon lens with a full frame canon camera, but if you're using that same lens with a micro 4/3 camera which has a smaller sensor size than the lens was designed for, this will do the trick.

:O

Are you serious though?

+Mbandi Music They can't control RU-vid Ads, and the video was not payed by Megabones or if it was they always give there honest review as you can see in the Jaybird X2 review. The ending Sponsor spot was bad but they do have to make money to pay all the employees and equipment.

+Mbandi Music They are not. RU-vid ad rev went drastically down after AdBlock caught on mate. Linus has a bunch of college grads/qualified employees, plus taxes in a country like Canada. The ads are fine imo.

+Mbandi - Music Beyond Borders Lol the ads are excellent. What a shame the fractal design doesn't support them any more..

Mbandi - Music Beyond Borders Megabones? Are these bigger than Metabones?

Yes. For 650 $

More like a full frame to aps adapter, as in it makes full frame lenses retain their technical properties when mounted on smaller formats. It basically lets you use yummy FF lenses on shittier APS cameras, for the price of a SH FF camera.

its more used for adapting canon EF mount lenses to micro 4/3 mounts honestly, most popular combo being with the sigma 18-35 f/1.8 art and the GH4 / GH5

I know some people think they're pointless. Under the right circumstances though, they can be great. I have a sony A6000. I was looking for a good 50mm at F1.8 or better for portraits... One day, in a store called "hard off" (basically a japanese pawn shop), i found a vintage nikon 50mm F1.4 lens from the 1960s, all manual for 60 dollars. I bought it, and bought a used adapter for 12 dollars on amazon. I now also have a sony 50mm F1.8... Honestly, i use the Nikon lens more. it's a bit sharper, has much less CA, and I prefer manual focus anyway. It also has better low light performance and depth of field... Not bad for a 60 dollar lens, it gives my 300 dollar one a run for its money. Now I'm trying to get a super fast 35mm, again, preferably F1.8 or better. ... then I realized for 120 bucks, I could get a decent booster. My vintage lens is a full frame lens, and my camera is an apsc crop sensor. Wth a booster adapter, I would effectively get a lens at 35mm and (unless my math is wrong) F1.0 ... I can't even find a 35mm F1.0 lens for my camera, let alone compare prices. The closest I could find so far is a couple of 35mm F1.2 lenses, the cheapest of which is 500 dollars... Suddenly it makes more sense to stick my vintage lens on a booster thay costs twice as much as it than it does to buy a whole new lens with the same specs. Oh, and most of the reason why these boosters are so over priced is because they also translate electrical connections between the camera body and the lens... If you're like me and the lens you want to boost is all manual, that guff doesn't even matter.

@@hatman4818 outstanding move !

+sigve hollås So do i

So was that comment! boo-ya!

so wus your mom lel

Prometheus Hippopotimi lolz

Wow. The like button for your comment is boring. I the dislike button is more my piece of cake. And what is that I smell? Your Virginity.

What's wrong with racism?

I'm Asian and I thought it was hirarious.

Introverted Digital I bet you little boot licker.

quanah asian, and I'm not harmed in any way and got quite a chuckle out of it.

Razors have nothing to do with cameras and he work only with cameras.. unless (razor sharp image). Please dont take this comment seriously, lol.

linus was so cool back then and right now he's a douche

hes ACTING like a DOUCHE

Except when he implied that Brandon can't pronounce the L in affordability even though pronounced it fine when he said it 10 seconds earlier in the video.

Tinnitusthenight I thought it was a play on "aberration."

Izar Schärf frfr

Hard to point that at Linus. He's an ass, and a bigot against particular nationalities, but he's also married to an Asian woman and has half-asian children.

I mean yeah, but that could also just have been a product of an asian fetish, gone too far..

Asian fetish? WTF? I suppose you say things like, Cassius doesn't have jungle fever and shit.

Am Asian, thought it was funny. I wouldn't mind working there at all. They all seem to be good friends and look like they have a blast working there. I'm sure it's a nasal thing between all of them. You act like this doesn't happen between employees at your job.

How is that racist? you guys need to chill and also not to use the term loosely.

I am finding that too. Luke is more my style.

No. Just no.

Th3Fizzle Well.. Anything needs energy. A band needs a front man. I agree that of late, Linus have have increasingly become "The energetic input" and that he might need to tone it a bit down.

Sometimes i feel like he is not rescpecting his team anymore and he wants all the attention. I still like him tho but i had that feeling since the tour at the house and at the first vid of brandon... maybe its just me..

Gavaskar B. It's not just you. He constantly portrays a very bossy and conceited character. Although he makes it seem like he doing it jokingly, it's ALL THE TIME and it's the only side of him we ever see.

Asher woodman stereotypes of Asians... smart at everything they do, can't say L's, rice, and small penises... can't make a whole range of jokes. it's upsetting.

Asher woodman I mean too be fair, we also make fun of them....A whole lot

me so hoeney

to /r/lewronggeneration with you

Papa franku needs to teach you a lesson

Let's play the harp on the tech channel's intro

Put dying fetus as your intro.

***** it's bad.