How about expensive Schneider / Century Optics products?

Would their wide angle adapters be as good as Sony W/A adapter? A lot of Century Optics products are made by others; some of these OEM products are labeled as Century Optics by the OEM manufacturer. Others are modified by Century Optics, without increasing resolution, but the price goes up many many times. Century Optics is using their SD adapters and is packaging them for the new Sony HD, just like they get standard Minolta and other inexpensive 35 mm SLR lenses, modify them mechanically and sell them as super expensive HD lenses.

There may be a lot better bargains among W/A and telephoto adapters than Century Optics. I'm sure Hoya or Tiffen, etc. will be offering adapters for this camera in the future.

When testing is done, we may find out that the Sony adapter is the best, or an inexpensive Hoya is the best, or the Century Optics is the best. We'll just have to wait and see.

Grazie,
seeing as how you live in the UK Formatt make some very nice glass filters.
Avoid anything made of resin unless you plan to use only once. Good glass filters should last forever, resin scratches too easily. I've seen the results of using cheap scratched filters, the FX1 / Z1 will gladly focus down to about where the filters sit so a scratch there or a bit of dirt and if you don't check carefully you can get a bit of shock.
www.formatt.com.uk I think.

They also make a decent matte box, we've got two but I'll have to see they'll work OK and if we have / can get adaptor rings. Good thing with these matte boxes is you avoid the expense of rods.


Bob.

Bob - Yes, these are indeed the Formatt filters I've got . . Excellent glass . . Yeah, I tried the Formatt "fixed" matte box but I've now landed on a TLS bellows matte box - 16:9. I LOVE IT! I've got to adaptor rings - one for the 58mm and one for the Canon wide angle.

So, it's a big "no" to resins eh? Shame . . the Formatt glass is very expensive . . . I wanted to get a black frost and another grad . .but at these prices - I'm gonna have too wait for a project that demands it . . .

Thanks for that - I'll email my results.

Grazie

Your mielage maybe differnt, I guess we're a bit more picky being in the hire business. We get enough nicks and dints in things glass, resin would be a nightmare for us, having to check each filter carefully when it comes back.

But I think the point is these things don't wear out. Then again I guess if you need something exotic there'd be planty of hire companies in the UK, look for the ones that belong to PERA, they're supposed to follow a certain code of practice.

BTW, there's some really smick filters made for 35mm, I saw an ad for one in the latest ASC mag that'll knock the glare off something, they used it when they were shooting near aircraft. Seems to have some extremely fine black particles on it. No doubt it costs big time.

Graduated NDs are pretty useful too.

Bob.