Metabones Speedbooster - Make All Your Camera Lenses Better
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,367 words · ~6 min read
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hey guys Brandon here thanks to your awesome feedback on my last video here
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let lius decided to let me take another crack at it and this time I'll be talking about something camera related
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one of my favorite pieces of gear that we use here every single day the
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metabone speed booster or as lonus likes to call it the make all my lenses better
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learn more okay so it's not magic what it
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actually is is a FAL producer which allows your aperture which you can learn
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more about in this video on techi on any
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lens to be one stop faster than it would otherwise be possible okay we've been
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through this before the video no camera
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talkie mumbo jumbo you speak in plain
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English okay okay all right
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all right sorry so let me try this again the speed booster bolts onto your camera
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and sits between the camera and a compatible lens and has three main
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benefits number one is that it widens the field of view that your camera can
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see by a magnification of 71 or 0.58
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depending on the model number two is that it adds overall sharpness to the
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final image that you get out of your camera and number three is that it
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seemingly increases the amount of light that enters your camera but we'll get
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more in depth on that in a moment because if you're anything like me you're probably sitting there going this
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is voodoo magic it sounds way too good to be true and honestly the first time I
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read about this adapter I spent no small amount of time making sure it wasn't an
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elaborate hoax or April fools or something thankfully it wasn't and all
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metabones had done was figure out how to implement a general use focal reducer
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something that no one has actually done in the photography world let's get into
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how this thing actually works typically you have your lens in a camera body
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where light enters and hits your sensor like this but here's what happens when
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you add the speed booster to the same setup the light converges onto a smaller
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field than before condensing the light this way allows for a wider field of
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view and more of the light focused onto a smaller area effectively giving you
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more usable light on your sensor for the photographers and enthusiasts out there
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this is the opposite effect that a typical teleconverter would give you a
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teleconverter would spread the light over a larger area narrowing your field
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of view and decreasing the amount of light that is usable on the sensor
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giving you a cropped in and darker overall image now the important part to
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note here is that the speed booster will only work with cameras that have appropriate spacing between the lens
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mount and the sensor the Blackmagic pocket or Panasonic GH4 for example and
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with lenses that are designed to cover a larger sensor size than your camera is
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equipped with for example here are three differ Siz lens circles each
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specifically made for a different size sensor full frame apsc and micro 43s so
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while the full-frame lens and the apsc size lens will both work on a speed
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booster paired with my Blackmagic pocket camera that uses a micro 43 Mount the
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theoretical pairing between a micro 43s
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lens and a micro 43s camera would not work with this Speed Booster this allows
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general purpose photography lenses like this one made for a full-frame camera
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like Burl's Canon 6D DSLR to not only
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fit my Blackmagic camera but work even more effectively at a speed of up to one
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two3 of a stop faster giving me better performance in low light outside of the
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studio as well as the ability to get a much shallower depth of field like in
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this shot here now on to the last last of the main benefits of the speed
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booster it's a common assumption that putting more glass behind or in front of
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a lens would lead to a loss in overall sharpness and while this is true for
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teleconverters since they magnify the aberration of a given lens the speed
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booster actually has the opposite effect since it compresses the original image
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of the lens reducing the visibility of these anomalies in the glass now it is
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true that the glass within the speed booster will have its own set of
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aberration but metabones has done a great job of specifically correcting for
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this and that is how they can achieve the L impossible better image quality
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with more light captured so on to my conclusion which is one that I already
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knew before I started making this video because I've been using the fs700
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version of the speed booster since it's released over a year and a half ago as
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well as the Blackmagic pocket one since I bought it for myself about a year ago
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and this is it the reason the speed booster is one of my favorite tools is
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that it offers an immense amount of flexibility and new possibilities with
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the same camera equipment that I might already own and while it is not always
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needed when trying to shoot something far away it actually might do more harm
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than good in that situation the same goes for if I wanted a deeper depth of
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field with for a macro closeup but it
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does allow me to make this shot into this shot and while I understand there
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are other ways I could achieve this nothing does it with quite the
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Simplicity affordability and flexibility of the speed booster speaking of
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Simplicity affordability and excuse me sorry I was channeling Brandon there for
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a minute affordability and flexibility
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all you have to do is sign up for the club so that's the Simplicity the
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affordability comes in where it's like yeah they're only a few bucks a month
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and you sign up and then well it's affordable so that's pretty
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self-explanatory and the flexibility comes in with uh you don't even have to
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get razors you could get their Dr Carver shave butter you could get their After
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Shave you could get their one wipe Charlie's butt wipes for men so they
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have all the same qualities of the speed booster except completely different
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because it's it's high quality razors and they come in the mail so that you
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can leave the house looking like you leave the house and you don't have to
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leave the house in order to achieve that because if you think about it it's like
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a freaking Paradox you have to go out to
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the store to look presentable to go out
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to the store how can anyone do this okay obviously it's not quite that
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complicated but Dollar Shave Club makes life even simpler so shave time shave
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money Dollar Shave Club the link is in the video description and while you're
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