Sony to fully support third-party E-mount adapters and lenses!

[Bruin]

Check this out, also from Imaging-Resource... I hope we start seeing chipped adapters with correct inifinity focus!

Finally, Sony representatives said they will proactively support the development of third-party lenses and adaptors for the E-mount. Because the E-mount has the shortest flange-sensor distance in the industry, there's more room to fit in an adapter and still have foreign lenses focus properly. Mr. Katsumoto made a point of saying that Sony was very much in favor of this, and was interested in proactively working with various companies to make more adapters. In a private conversation with Imaging-Resource.com Publisher Dave Etchells after the formal presentation, Mr. Katsumoto underscored that Sony would release full engineering specifications for the E-mount to third party adapter makers; a pretty unusual stance in an industry where manufacturers tend to jealously guard such information.

 

[douglasf13]

Great news.

 

[ethics_gradient]

I feel like I live in Bizzaro-world; first I buy an NEX-3 and love it, and now this.

 

[Gary E]

Sony just realizes that if they cooperate in this way, it will allow end users more freedom and choices which they themselves cannot compete with. Thereby selling more bodies to users they've never thought would use the Nex system such as Olympus, M42 or any other manual focus lens user. Of course their own AF lenses would appeal to the new P&S crowd moving up to something possibly better, so no loss there.

I always thought if Sigma gave the SD-x DSLR a mount option it would sell more bodies. I mean, it's not like they don't sell lenses to Nikon or Canon users already, so why force possibly new DSLR buyers to buy SA lenses when they already have Sigma Nikon mount lenses? Who wants to duplicate?

 

[Mister E]

Was the next thought out enough to be able to fit an FX sensor in future bodies?

 

[febreeze-showered]

E-mount as in Olympus E-mount? I wonder how they'll get the lens to focus since most (if not all) of the lenses are focus-by-wire. They would probably need to get a hand on some codes for the contact chips or something.