LA-EA4r Monster Adapter v02

First of all, thank you to all the people involved.

I don't think it's a "rumor" forever, so I made it a new topic.
If you are new to this, see also the topic "Rumor: LA-EA4r Monster Adapter being developed?".

I have confirmed the operation of two of the newly supported lenses.
Minolta AF 100mm F2.8 Soft Focus
Minolta AF 135mm F2.8

Has the same lens ID as an unsupported but supported lens
SIGMA 8mm / F4 Fisy Eye(same LensID as Minolta/Sony AF 16mm F2.8 Fisheye)
Worked.

Officially unsupported Easter eggs,
The AF200 / F4G macro is practical for the ILCE-9. With the ILCE-7RM4, it never focused in the macro range and was not practical at all.

LA-EA4r, there is a note that the camera must be turned off before changing the lens, but I change a lens with the power on, 7RIV will black out and there will be no response. Even if I removed the battery and left it for a while, it didn't work and I recovered with a USB connection. Observe the notes.

Edited by Micholand - 19 September 2020 at 11:37

The manual was revised with v02.

https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404522954716479638

Since I didn't save the previous manual, the changes are not clear, but 7SIII (slow) and 7C have already been added to the compatible models.

From the Facebook Monster Adapter page:

This is firmware v02 from WeTransfer, please get it from here if you experienced issues while downloading from DuBox. The file size is 3,320,491 bytes https://we.tl/t-aa6OOc6daF And, Tobias Roesli setup a mirror for the updater. Thanks a lot! http://tobias-roesli.com/monsteradapter.html

About power consumption.
Attach LA-EA4r + AF135 / 2.8 to 7RIV.

2020: 09: 19 12:39:28 Battery Level: 98, turn off the power.
2020: 09: 21 13:15:34 Battery Level: 66, Power on.

It may be better to remove it when not in use.
Especially cameras that use the FW-50 battery.

The LA-EA4 has three motors. For focus, aperture, and AF / MF switching clutch for DMF. I feel that the EA4r lacks consideration for this clutch drive motor.

Edited by gigo - 21 September 2020 at 12:45

mambo wrote: Power consumption I too have noted this is now a major problem with the recent update. A battery at 100% when you switch off the camera with a lens attached to the la-ea4r can be down to 30% when you switch it on seeking to use it. I have reached out to Gurur and am waiting for a response.

Oh wow, that's good to know. I'd been planning on leaving the adapter attached and just swapping lenses as needed, basically pretending it's a somewhat limited A-mount camera. But not if it consumes power like that!

It also means I have to take the adapter and lens off every time it goes back into the bag, which isn't ideal at all.

On the official page,

https://m.weibo.cn/u/7436512006

it was written that "After the release of the LA-EA4r v02 firmware, we started supporting the teleconverter. (At v03)".

The E-Mount camera supported by the EA4r exceeds the AF limit of F6.3 of the A-Mount .

For example, ILCE-9 has the advantage that the limit of PDAF is F16, and contrast AF can be performed even if it is darker than that.

The EA5 does not support TC, so it may be interesting.

Driven by curiosity, I suddenly decided to attach an unsupported SSM lens, SAL50/1.4ZA, to the LA-EA4r. Of course it became MF, but I thought it might not be usable at all.
No, I can't set the aperture to F1.4 because the lens parameters are messed up.