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Shooting with an optical adapter

Shooting with an optical adapter

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Shooting with an optical adapter

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- Rob You mentioned optical, when I hear optical I think of glass, additional glass inside of the adapter and I've got one of these. This one was actually recommended by our mutual friend, Rob Gary. He had picked one up, he told me about it. I just went and got it too cuz it turned out to be great. - Yeah, so what we're really referring to when we describe optical adapters are those are going to be adapters that are not passive like this where there's no glass or any of the like involved. But you can see on this even though it's a tad dirty, you got to clean this Rich. Even though it's a tad dirty - You were the last one to touch it. - There are some actual pieces of glass in here. Now, this is an optical adapter that is passive. There's no electronic contacts on here. - [Rich] Yes - But metabones, as we mentioned before, like for example going from, I don't know Canon EF to E-mount on a Sony system. - [Rich] Yeah. - That can also pass electronic information. So, that would be an…

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