- Hey there, Caleb Wojcik of DIY Video Guy
and I'm here in the studio
to talk about putting Canon
lenses on Sony camera bodies.
And, what's nice about this is
if you're switching from Canon to Sony
and you already have a
bunch of EF or EFS lenses,
there are adapters that you
can put onto mirrorless cameras
like the A7 Series, the A6000 Series
or even up into more
the professional cameras
like the FS7 or FS5.
But, there are some down sides as well
of using Canon glass on a Sony body,
so I'm going to be talking
through those in this video.
So, I've tried two of the adapters.
The more expensive one, the
400 dollar Metabones adapter
which has an actual USB plug
that you can update the firmware
for and I did update that,
I did use it, but I just wasn't happy
with the autofocus performance.
And, for way less money,
for about a hundred dollars,
you can get the Fotodiox Pro which is,
it's a little flimsy,
it's not quite as snug
a fit as the Metabones,
so sometimes I'll have trouble
with the lens electronics
connecting to the Sony camera.
But, it's a quarter of the price
and you get a lot of the
same manual focus features
that you might expect.
Now, I read a lot of tests
online of different people
that had used these adapters and tried out
the autofocus features of
their cameras with them
and I tried both on the
A7S II and the A7R II
with different adapters
and I just never was really happy
with the autofocus performance
in photo or video mode.
I know with the Metabones,
you can update the firmware
and depending on which lens you're using,
you're gonna get different results,
but it's just not a
super reliable feature.
So, if you're expecting
autofocus performance for photography,
I would really stick
with Sony native lenses.
I wouldn't trust that this
is gonna deliver in a bind,
in a hurry or anything like that.
So, I've only been using manual focus
when I've been using these
lenses on a Sony body
and that's how I can get
the best look out of it.
And, with using focus peaking,
you can actually tell what's in focus.
A few more things to keep in mind,
if you're putting an EF
lens on full frame body
like something like
the A7R II, the A7S II,
you will get full coverage on the sensor.
But, if you put an EFS lens
on it, one of the cheaper ones
that are meant for the
crop sensor cameras,
you're gonna have to switch
your camera into APS-C mode
and on the A7S II, that means
that you can't shoot in 4K.
So, just be aware
that you're gonna have to
change your camera's settings
if you're putting on
one of the EFS lenses.
Another thing to be aware of is
that since Canon lenses are
typically a little bit bigger
than some of the mirrorless options,
you will have trouble
with tripod clearance
so you have to mount your
camera really far forward
on the plate to make sure
there's room for the lens
to attach to the camera.
I know some Sony lenses,
like the G Master 85,
they have this issue, too.
So, it's just kind of
something you deal with
when you're using a small
camera body like this.
To get around it, you
could use a vertical grip
to make the camera body
sit a little bit higher
and then you have more
room for the lens to clear.
Some of the special focus modes
that you get in these cameras
that are really great,
I'm thinking of Eye
Autofocus, Face Autofocus,
the ability to get a
digital zoom-in effect
when you are manually focusing,
a lot of those things go away
when you're using an adapter.
So, you're not going to be able
to use a lot of the features
that are great about
these mirrorless cameras
which might be a reason why
you're switching from a DSLR
to get that Eye Autofocus,
to get some of those additional features.
If you're putting a
Canon lens on the body,
from my experience,
you're not going to be able to use those
unless, maybe down the road,
they update some of these adapters.
So, that about wraps it up for this video.
I just want to recommend
that if you are going full-mirrorless,
honestly, I would off-load
your Canon lenses.
Sony makes some really
good ones with Zeiss,
some of their G Master Series.
There are a lot of good options out there
and I would prefer to have a
native lens on my camera body
so I get all of the features,
like I was just talking about.
So, let me know in the comments below
if you are shooting on Sony
and what your experiences are
with shooting Canon lenses.
I'd love to hear and maybe
I'll find out a better way
to use some of my glass.
So, thanks so much for watching this video
and I'll see you guys in the next one.
