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Kinefinity gave varying discounts dependant on which package you ordered and if you were one of the first 100 people to preorder a Mavo.

I paid my preorder deposit on March 30 for my Mavo and was one of the first 100 to order and qualify for discount. Still waiting for it to ship…they tell me now “maybe end of August”

Well I ordered the E mount anyway and will modify it to take the Metabones adapters. It’s the best for my situation having 3 other E mount cameras in addition to the incoming Mavo.

Does a Red Raven have a similar bottom layout to the Terra/Mavo? If so, this might work. https://www.smallrig.com/smallrig-red-raven-baseplate-1756.html

Now I’m not sure what to order since I have an even mix of Nikon and PL mount lenses plus all the Metabones adapters and Speedboosters for each to E mount.

Argh!

I’ve just heard from Kinefinity. They say that using Metabones adapters with their E mount adapter may destroy their mount. I’m guessing because it has electronic contacts which the Metabones does not have.

I was hoping to avoid having to buy separate adapters all over again for all my Nikon and PL mount lenses. 🙁

You can probably find something similar or better at http://Smallrig.com

Well that sucks…it’d be nice to know before ordering whether the Metabones PL and Nikon adapters will fit.

No, Carl from ProAV in the UK (Kinefinity’s official supplier there) mentioned this in a comment on the Facebook group. See here.

I was wrong…apparently the manufacturing holdup was a part for the new Kineback-W. They’ve now been re-supplied and building Mavo’s and Terra’s!

I have a feeling they want to get that side lcd working before shipping production MAVO’s.

I hear that Mavo’s have started shipping! Can’t wait!

Since Kinefinity says the processing power on the MAVO is double that of the Terra, it could be that only the MAVO can do the computation required for ProResRaw at all frame rates.

Re-reading Kinefinity’s warning leads me to believe that maybe Metabones E mount adapters may not work with their E mount adapter.

Here’s their warning: “Notice: The third-party adapter may not work on SONY E mounting adapter to turn E mount to EF or PL mount; some modified E lenses also may not be used on the E mounting adapter of TERRA.”

Cool because I have Nikon and PL mount manual lenses and Metabones Speedbooster PL to E and Nikon to E so I figured I could just get my MAVO with the E to Kinemount adapter and I should be all good.

I’m just wary of their 3rd party adapter warning but I could see how that would only apply to ones with electronic contacts.

Sweet! I liked your TERRA 4k review Raffi!

Did you watch the NewsShooter NAB 2018 interview with Jihua at Kinefinity booth? In it he drops a hint that Chinese customers will get the MAVO first! 😯