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Dear Frugal Photo Friends, Mark your calendars. Here are some upcoming camera shows if you happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. For those of you thinking... why would somebody go to a camera swap anymore when there's ebay, B&H, KEH, Craigslist etc. Well, there are a number of reasons. You can try before you buy for one. There are no shipping charges. And believe it or not, there are sometimes better deals than online. For example, I was recently in the market for 5x7" film holders. I bid on a few on Ebay but the bids went over $20 per holder. Then I saw a few at the Seawood Photo table at a Hayward photo swap. I ended up paying about $15 per holder. Plus I got a promise from Seawood that I could exchange at their shop if there were any problems. Good luck finding deals like that on the interwebz. UPCOMING CAMERA SWAP MEETS in the San Francisco Bay Area (early 2018) Hayward Camera Show Sunday February 11th Carpenters Local 713 1050 Mattox Rd. 

I'm starting writing up this test without having tried it. At this stage, I have no idea what the results will be. But let me start with the idea behind the test. I've owned the Canon 17mm TS-e for a few years. I switched to Sony mirrorless a while back. My solution for Sony due to the lack of good native E mount lenses has been to mostly use Canon lenses with either the Sigma MC-11 or Metabones adapter. There have been some down sides to this solution but on the whole I've been pretty happy. So I was at the pawn shop a couple of months ago - and stumbled upon a few items. One of which was  a Metabones Speed Booster! Frankly I've got so many new toys I've had little time to test this out. But I had an epiphany- what would happen if I put the 17mm TS-e on a full frame camera? Honestly I don't know yet as I write. The image circle of the lens is huge! On full frame with no adapter, there's 12mm rise-fall. So my theory is that the lens-adapter combo w