Which adapter for A6500?

[fun3sto]

Hello everyone, I have recently purchased the a6500 and coming from SLR canon I have some lenses that I would continue to use. For this reason I had purchased the commlite adapter, but unfortunately it is totally incompatible, because nothing works. So I would ask what for canon lens adapter on sony a6500? Excluding the metabones adapter which for me is over budget.

[Username]

Need to grow budget ! 

[fun3sto]

My budget is to purchase an cheap adapter and then up to € 150,00

[Gizmo3000]

Maybe check out the Fotodiox adapter,   I picked one up for cheap and it seems to work ok.

[Studio G]

Commlite + a6500 seems to be working fine for me. I also have a Vello "Accelerator" lens adapter (focal reducer like SpeedBooster) I was hoping to use with FF lenses, but it causes blurring at the frame edges. And I agree, the Metabones are on the fringe of budget feasibility, you would have to have a lot of lenses to adapt for it to be worth the cost.

 

Commlite successes: Canon 17-55 f2.8, Canon 10-22, Tamron 60mm macro (but forget about autofocus), and of course all kinds of vintage m42 lenses with dumb adapters.

 

Vello Accelerator successes: Vintage lenses only so far. I don't have any modern full frame lenses to try this with. I got it on sale on a whim and was hoping to buy a used Canon 24-105 or something for it, but was disappointed with the frame edge quality. So I can't really vouch for this adapter, I don't use it much. Probably good for portraits.

[Username]

My budget is to purchase an cheap adapter and then up to € 150,00

For that price ? Expect something thaz just

a waste of your 150. IOW, not every project

is worth pursuing :-(   

[tinplater]

I bought a "king" adapter and it works just as well in virtually every respect, as the Metabones II and III that I had and sold.  However I don't know if you can find King any longer...a China product I got for around $80 as I recall.  I think the adapters are generally an example of where you do not get what you pay for.  Paying $400 for a metabones is just hard for me to understand.  I got one on Craigslist here for $95 and sold it for $300 on Ebay, so I guess there is that going for them.

[Username]

Not that it makes us ILC users feel any better .... but 

the reason that top shelf adapters are high priced is 

that they originated, and still thrive, in the profession 

productions evironment of the cine/video bizniz, Just 

browse the prices of true productions quality lenses 

and other acoutraments in that field and you'll see 

that $400 to $600 for the most reliable adapters is 

the low end of the price range. 

   

My Metabones "dumb" adapter cost several time the 

price of the inexpensive adapters I've tried. And altho

the inexpensive ones were sufficient, the Metabones 

is distinctly better. Is it several times better ? NO it's 

not, but it IS distinctly better. While it is NOT several 

times better, it IS $75 better. Being a very low cost 

item in the world of quality cine/video devices, the 

several fold price hike amounted to only $75 :-) So I 

have no complaint. OTOH in that same cine/video 

professional productions world, any item under $1K 

is a minor item, so do realize that $700 for a Speed 

Booster instead of $150 for brand-X knock-off is, to 

those in that world, the same thing as the $75 that I 

willingly paid for a better "dumb" adapter. $700 will 

adapt a $10,000 lens to $10,000 camera, to allow a 

$50,000 short cine spot to be filmed. Would a $150 

adapter also do the thing ? For that negligible $550 

savings, why risk it ? 

 

  

There's no denying that when we ILC users consider

buying items "born of, and raised in" the cine/video 

profession then the prices his US as outrageous, but 

thaz how it is. These are not "our" chatzkes. We are 

Burger King employees trying to buy a dinner in the 

most most expensive districts of Manhattan, London, 

or Paris. Sticker shock is inevitable :-(  

[pacomx]

I just bought the A6500 and Metabones V. So far, the Tamron 24-70mm and Tokina 11-16mm work fine. I can change aperture and speed. The autofocus speed is ok.