Canon’s EOS-M camera
is one of the only digital cameras in Canon’s lineup with a flange distance that’s small enough to support a speedbooster type adapter. Electronically, it’s also the easiest to adapt to Canon EF mount lenses. This video above appears to be showing a prototype version of a Speedbooster being used with an EOS-M camera. The video bellow also demonstrates the exact same thing.
Right now you can pick up a Canon EOS-M body for as little as $200 on ebay. With an adapter like this you’d be able to get an extra stop out of any full frame lens and get the look of a full frame sensor on a crop sensor body. You’d effectively have the low light performance sitting somewhere between the Canon 5d mark II
and Canon 5d mark III
in a smaller package as well as all the features a Canon t4i offers. Sure your auto focus system wont be great which means the photography side of things will suffer a bit, but for a $200 camera body I think it could end up being a very amazing film tool.
On top of that, we’ll most likely be seeing the much improved AF system on the new Canon 70d being propagated into another EOS-M type offering in the next 6 to 8 months. Although the video format isn’t the same, this could be a poor mans Black Magic Pocket Camera. If the adapter is released soon, it could actually end up betting the BMPCC to market.
Tags: EOS M to EF adapter, Speedbooster EOS M
August 30th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
The comment on the second video suggests the E Mount version of the adapter works with the EOS M, though I can’t imagine Canon copied somebody else’s mount design…
Also, this would make the POV 0.7x wider, wouldn’t it?
August 30th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
I believe .71x wider is correct. Even though the sensor size is x1.5 on Sony cameras and x1.6 on canon cameras, you would simply change the flange distance to cover the slightly smaller area. Unless they leave the flange distance the same, in which case you would be looking at something more like .68x wider. But it kind of depends on how they handle the optics.