The E mount adapter poll - January 2020

For A-mount use on E-mount I have an LA-EA1 and LA-EA4. For all other old rangefinder and other mount manual lenses I have dumb adapters (OM, MC/MD, Leica M (of which some have a built-in helicoil), M42, M39, Exacta, Konica, .....)

I also have one Metabones speed booster for OM lenses but that doesn't see much use since I got an E-mount full frame camera. It is however a great piece of glass for use of old manual lenses close to their original field of view on an APS-C body.

Except for the Sony adapters none of my other adapters transfer EXIF or do AF.

LA-EA3, LA-EA4, Metabones IV, Sigma MC-11, Yongnuo EF-E II
MD-NEX, KR-NEX, DA-NEX, C-mount to E
MD to A 1.2X
A to Q
T-4 to MD

Edited by QuietOC - 10 May 2020 at 12:08

I tend to not use A mount lenses on my E mount bodies , they work better on A mount bodies .
Adapted lenses I use on E- mount mainly use dumb adapters , Minolta SR , Contax C/Y , Olympus OM etc .

The only adapted A/F lenses that tend to get used on E mount are Canon EF ones .
Very rarely though .

I have LA-EA2 3 & 4 plus dumb adapters for MD, A, K, OM, P-110, and Konica adapters. The dumb ones are much less used these days.

MC-11 for Canon EF 8-15mm F4 L Fisheye USM
LA-EA3 for AF MACRO 3X-1X F1.7-2.8
LA-EA4 for 35mm F1.4G, AF APO TELE MACRO 200mm F4, AF SOFT FOCUS 100mm F2.8, 500mm F8 Reflex
LM-EA7 for M-Rokkor and telescopes with dumb KIPON T2-R/M

commlite EF-NEX

[dumb]
VIXEN T2-NEX
K&F Concept EOS-NEX
K&F Concept FD-NEX
KIPON MAF-NEX

LA-EA3, LA-EA4
METABONES: MD-E, FD-E
NOVOFLEX: OM-E, LEICA M-E
LENS TURBO II MD-E
VELLO LEICA M-E with helicoid
Various generics: MD, OM, NIKON F, NIKON G, NIKON (S), CANON FD, M-42, L39
FOTODIOX SHIFT MD-E

AND: KIPON HASSELBLAD-MAF

I am wondering if which option I should choose: in addition to LA-EA3, LA-EA4 and various adapters for older manual focus systems, I do own Commlite EF-NEX adapter, but I cannot say I really use it since I don't currently own any EF lenses. In fact, the original inspiration to get it (and deliberately choose cheaper alternative than Sigma MC-11 or Metabones) was the idea that when I hang around with Canon shooting (bird) photographers I might be able to borrow their lenses at times, but so far that sort situation has not really arrived and I guess my aqcuisitions of RX10 IV and now FE200-600G make the idea of borrowing Canon lenses even less likely. Especially as the trend has been that quite a few people who have been using Canon system have now swapped to Sony system...