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hi I'm Dustin Abbott I just did a review
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of the popular Mega dap ET 271 pro
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adapter that allows you to use Sony uh
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e-mount lenses on Nikon z-mount cameras
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with autofocus but I'm back today with a
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second review because newer has a
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cheaper Al alternative the
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nwz adapter that you can get for just
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$160 it does have a few advantages
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relative to the mega dap the MEAP also
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has some advantages relative to it I'll
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compare the two of these actually in a
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future video but today I'm going to take
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a look to see if newer cheaper adapter
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can keep up with the mega dap adapter
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which cost about 250 us so like the mega
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dap these two adapters are very very
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similar in size I it's a wild change
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from what I was accustomed to with
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adapters previously typically because
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you're moving in the past moving from a
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DSLR Mount to a mirrorless Mount which
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means a pretty big difference between
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the flange distance and what I mean by
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that is the place where the optical the
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Optics of the lens need to be to get
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proper Focus throughout to infinity and
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so in this case the optical path from
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mirrorless had to move forward because
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there's no um mirror that's a part of
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the design in this case you're going
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from one mirrorless design to another so
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whereas for example the sigma mc11
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adapter was 26 mm thick and weighed
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about 125 G the newer adapter is only 2
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mm thick because that's just the diff
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distance between e Mount and Z Mount
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terms of the optical path and it weighs
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only 46 G so it's a third of the weight
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and of course it is a 13th of the
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thickness now in this case it allows you
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to have a very tight fit to wear in many
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cases it just feels like a second mount
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on a lens and as you can see here it
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adds very very little bulk to it and so
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and and beyond that I I find that using
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lenses adapted it doesn't even really
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feel like I'm using them adapted because
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the lens shape doesn't change the
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profile the balance doesn't change and
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so I really really love that aspect of
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these particular designs I also found
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that there was some variation in how
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lenses fit in the the process I used
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about seven different lenses and I found
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that obviously some fit a little looser
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some fit a little tighter but what I
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will say is universally once they were
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mounted there wasn't any kind of wobble
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it didn't feel insecure in any kind of
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way the adapter themselves are quite
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simple so this newer adapter it's made
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out of looks like some kind of stainless
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steel and uh so on the front side you
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have the contact points for the Sony
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e-mount lens to attach to that and then
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on the rear of it you have two different
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sets of contact points one set is for
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the community Comm unication to the Z
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Mount body so with the Nikon protocols
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then you also have a a bit fewer contact
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points and that's for firmware updating
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now I will say in this case it's one
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area where I like the mega dap better
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the new version of the mega dap allows
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you to do firmware updates just from
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within the camera like you would do for
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a Nikon lens in this case however you're
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using those rear contact points and
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there is a m magnetically attaching uh
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adapter that will attach to that and
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then the other end is a usba a port or
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that will allow you to plug into your
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computer and run firmware updates from
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that I find that the magnets don't
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really hold uh the adapter or don't hold
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in place to the adapter itself and so I
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found that to run a firmware update
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there was one available that I needed to
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put a finger on there just kind of hold
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it down and so that I was getting a
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proper contact to the electronic
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contacts on there and so without that it
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didn't really work right so I don't
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particularly love that that design there
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another thing that I don't love about
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the newer adapter as compared to the
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mega dap is that it doesn't communicate
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XF data properly and what I mean by that
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it's not a problem with the aperture
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value but it isn't proper in terms of
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communicating the actual lens
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designation itself and so for example
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with the say the 35mm f1.4 GM or the uh
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50mm f1.4 GM lens it says VR you know
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f1.4g really none of those things are
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accurate outside of the the actual focal
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length and the aperture value but uh
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with in the case of the mega dap
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actually got proper it was coming
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through as the GM lens as it was so uh
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that's one area where I don't like one
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thing I do like however because one of
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my complaints about the mega dap is that
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there you don't have any kind of weather
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ceiling once you've you've done that
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you're losing the actual gasket between
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the adapter and the camera body itself
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so your weather ceiling is probably not
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going to be as good you do have an
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option for $20 more uh from newer to get
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actually one that does have a a gasket
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and so you can complete that weather
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ceiling so I appreciate that option is
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there though I will note that the one
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that I reviewed didn't have that gasket
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and so I can't really comment on how
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well it fits and how well all of that
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works there's one other thing that I
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really like about the newer adapter
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again that's missing on the mega dap and
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that is that as you can see here I've
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actually got a and applied a this is the
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tyo Samra 28mm f1.4 really great um
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manual focus lens but it's Mount and so
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I've got an mount adapter to e-mount
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adapter and then I have that plugged
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into the actual newer adapter so two
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adapters are in place but of course the
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Samra lens is a purely manual lens
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there's no electronics on it at all
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however as you can see here when I'm
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using it with the newer adapter I
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actually get Focus confirmation and so
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it Prov provides Electronics to where
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even Nikon's guide which shows you which
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direction you need to rotate to get to
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proper focus it works and there is the
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green lightup box when you have achieved
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proper focus and it works accurately so
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that's a great kind of side benefit if
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you have because it doesn't really
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matter what Mount I I've adapted over
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m42 Mount lenses and again the same kind
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of thing I'm getting that electronic
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confirmation that's not something that I
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got through the mega dap adapter so a
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little bit of a bonus there so of course
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the main event is how good is autofocus
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when you have the adapter in place I
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found that in comparison to the mega dap
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my results varied really widely compared
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to the lens I had attached so I actually
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started off with the 35mm f1.4 GM and
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then the Tamron 35 to 150 mm vxd lens
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based on just those two lenses alone I
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thought the newer adapter was fantastic
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maybe even better than the MEAP it
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autofocused really really fantastically
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and you can see here for example with
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the 35gm good fast autofocus back and
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forth great then I started to expand to
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use more lenses so the 50mm f1.4 GM a
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very similar lens in terms of the
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autofocus system but for whatever reason
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on the newer adapter I got radically
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different results you can see here that
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focus is very slow it is not at all
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confident and that kind of was a
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microcosm of what I saw in general so
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for example I tried three different
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Tamron lenses already mentioned the 35
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to 150 mm worked great the new 90mm f2.8
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macro also worked great the 28 to 200 mm
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rxd lens it didn't hardly work at all in
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fact I couldn't hardly get it to focus
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to get even any kind of accurate
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autofocus at all and so that was
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terrible with vrs I used the 16 mm and
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then the 135 mm lab lens 16 mm worked
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great the 135 mm lab it just wh like a a
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scared puppy and would not autofocus at
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all so my results really really varied
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very very widely depending upon the lens
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that I had attached and so when it works
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it works great and so out of those that
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list of lenses that I gave you I would
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say that around four of them worked
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fantastic but in the case of the other
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three that I test it I got much much
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poorer results and in some case no
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autofocus at all so it when it works as
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mentioned it works great but it's less
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flexible than the mega dap what I saw
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with the mega dap is that some lenses
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would focus more slowly than others but
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all of them would would focus you know
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to some degree and so I had much less
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variability on that platform how about
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the video side of things again it's
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about the same story carried out here
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for video so it depends a lot on the
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lens itself if I had the 50 mm GM
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attached you can see here that as I
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approached the camera it didn't pick me
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up at all nothing I pretended like I
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wasn't even there the 35g master however
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picked me up just fine even if I stepped
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out of frame and Ste back in you can see
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that Focus picked me back up fairly
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smoothly good confidence throughout and
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so no problems there so again big
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variation depending on the lens you have
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attached now if you do kind of more
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extreme things like Focus pools you can
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see here that even with the
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35gm the focus pools are they're not as
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confidence as a native lens there's a
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little bit more pulsing some settling it
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doesn't quite just stay on the focus
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point but you know moves around a little
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bit and so a video autofocus is going to
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be a mixed bag and a very mixed bag
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depending upon which lens that you
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attach so my conclusion is this my
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feeling about the newer
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nwz obviously it varies widely depending
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upon the lens that I have mounted to it
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when I'm using a lens that it works well
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with it works great and I love it but
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when it's a lens that it doesn't
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particularly like it's really really bad
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I do love the manual focus confirmation
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something that Mega dap doesn't have I
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like that there's a weather sealed
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option but I think for most people the
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mega dap is probably worth the extra
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money particularly if you plan to use
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extra lenses I'm Dustin Abbott and if
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you want more information you can check
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out my full text review that's Linked In
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the description down below there's some
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buying links that are there as well as
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always thanks for watching have a great
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day and let the light Li in
