Is a speedbooster just a reverse mounted teleconverter?

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Does my harebrained idea of adapting Pentax 67 lenses to a 35mm body stand any chance of success?
 

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I don’t know what a speedbooster is, but Pentax sold an adapter to mount 67 lenses on Pentax K mount.
 

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A speedbooster is, in essence, a kind of reverse teleconverter- its a converging group of lenses, rather than a diverging group, like a teleconverter. That doesn't mean that a speedbooster is literally a reversed teleconverter, or that you can achieve the same effect by mounting a teleconverter backwards, if that's what you're asking. It's certainly theoretically possible to design a lens group which adapts medium format lenses to 35mm in the same way as a speedbooster is used for APS-C and MFT, but like others have noted, I don't think such a thing exists currently, and adapters for P67 lenses and others generally don't have an optical component, they just get the flange to film distance right and make the mounts compatible.
 

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Kipon Baveyes makes focal reducing/speedboosting adapters for medium format, including Pentax 67 to certain 35mm, mostly digital, mounts
 
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