Mirror lenses (2)

ILCE-7M2 with Vectis 8/400 and LA-VE2 at or near MFD.

And always remove both adapter and lens from the camera when changing lenses, otherwise the adapter/camera keeps seeing the old lens, though, strangely, the FL is correct, even though it's outside the zoom range.

Speaking of powering off, my LA-VE2 seems to reset to AF mode when the camera goes into battery-saving low-power mode. When I re-awaken the camera with a light touch, if I had it in MF, the lens wakes up in AF mode and hunts around as if reassuring itself that it can move.

I just discovered that my "unmodified LA-EA4" is actually an LA-EA2. That may invalidate some of the EXIF information comparison I posted above.

darosa wrote: My 25-150 is very unhappy too, it has the F90-washed-out-white-display syndrome. Just ordered another one, new old stock in box; hope that's happy to see some action at last. They're still cheap.

Try the "Settings -> Reset -> Initialize" that "Anthills" suggested .
It made a massive difference with my adapter .

The 25-150 was coming up f/90 when first mounted and camera switched on , AF first would move then just lock up with a purple square on both the a7Riv and a6600 .
Since I've "initialised" it the aperture is correct , AF works a treat . Better on the a6600 than the a7Riv , but very satisfactory . In low light at 150mm ( max aperture is f/6.3 here ) it's slower to focus but gets there in the end .
17mm is working fine most of the time , but I need to check it out more in good light .
The 22-80mm , 28-56mm , 56-170mm and 80-240mm all work great . I'm pleasantly surprised with the their performance .

The 50 mm macro lens was whizzing in AF missing everything , but I've put on one of my other copies and that one works great .

Finally the 400mm Reflex .
I have three copies .
The one I've been using on the original Vectis to E-mount is just hunting .
I've figured out why .
The internal baffle on this one has no flocking and is causing a rainbow flare effect , almost as if the rear element of a lens has condensation on it .
This seems to be effecting the AF as light is scattered .
I hope to remedy this by sanding the glaze off it .
(EDIT ; I've just swapped the baffle for the one out of the "macro" reflex , so should work fine tomorrow)    

My Second copy needed the front elements taking out for cleaning , which I did years ago , unfortunately when it was reassembled after putting the second lens in that has the secondary mirror on , you ten put the first element back in and as this was screwed in , it turned the second one as well .
This lost infinity focus , in fact it turned it more into a macro lens , focussing no more than 15 feet away . Sharp , but not a lot of use !
I thought I'd stripped it down again to redo it , but clearly not !
A job for another day .

My third copy needs cleaning up as there's signs of fungus under the front element or on the second one back .
I'll count the turns as I take them out to reinsert both these and on the other correctly .
I'll use a bit of thread lock on the inner one and allow it to set before putting in the outer element .

Despite the fungus , AF works grate and it seems a nice sharp lens .

And here one with the AF500 reflex

It was a cloudy sky Mike