Have ebay r-eos adapter prices fallen?

[ejd]

I was expecting to find that these things were more expensive, but looking at ebay quickly today, I found many r-lens-to-eos-body adapters with focus confirmation advertised for prices like £13 plus postage. Have prices fallen? Are these adapters good? Most were being sold from Hong-Kong or China, but some from the UK. It seems much less than prices like Cameraquest's $175 that I've seen.

Any observations would be most welcome.

Thanks

John

[stunsworth]

The Chinese one ones have always been that price or there abouts.

The Cameraquest one is very well made, better than the Chinese ones - though whether it's $150 better is a moot point.

On the Chinese one that I had the sensor chip was glued on. It fell off after a few days. That could have been bad luck on my part.

[ejd]

Steve -- thanks for this info.

At least one of the sellers said they now soldered the chips to the adapters so that they do not fall off any more. I suspect your experience is par for the course.

John

[stunsworth]

John, that should be an improvement.

Personally at £13 I'd try one of those first before considering the Cameraquest version.

I used R lenses on digital EOS cameras for several years before buying an M8. Let me know if you have any further questions.

[martinvath]

Yesterday I got the Roxsen adaptor (without chip) at 11£ incl. shipping. It fit and works fine on my EOS 30D, the build quality is ok and I think it just saved me 150$ :-)

Kind regards

Martin Vath Noergaard