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Lensbaby Introduces Tilt Focus and Macro Optics

15 May 2012
Published in Camera Lenses

Lensbaby has announced the 80mm Edge 80 optic—the latest addition to its Optic Swap System. Compatible with the Lensbaby Composer Pro, Composer, Muse, Scout and Control Freak, the Edge 80 transforms these models into a tilt lens. Like the Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic, the Edge 80 features Lensbaby's internal 12-blade adjustable aperture and has an aperture range of f/2.8 to f/22...

Lensbaby's Latest: The Composer Pro

16 June 2011
Published in Camera Lenses

The lastest creative inspiration from Lensbaby hit the market this spring, the SLR-ready Composer Pro.

The Composer Pro is an add-on for the Lensbaby composer, which improves the focus and tilt-control of the composer's swivel-ball and focus mechanism for more accurate focusing...

Lensbaby Adds Fisheye to Line of Specialty Lenses

25 March 2011
Published in Camera Lenses

A manual focus fisheye SLR lens, Lensbaby's new optic attachment, "Scout with Fisheye" gives camera users the ability to capture ultrawide 12mm, 160-degree angle of view images.

Like traditional fisheye lenses, the Scout also produces the characteristic black corners at the edge of each shot. This particular lens, however, has an alternative flare effect, which makes these edges glow brightly in lighter scenes...

Lensbaby Enhances Optic Swap with Two New Lenses

27 April 2010
Published in Camera Lenses

Lensbaby has added two new products to its Optic Swap Creative SLR line — a fish-eye and a soft-focus lens. Unlike prior models to hit the market, the two new lenses have a flatter and sharper field of focus overall, while the other four lens options capture images with a sharp focal point and dramatic blurring around it.

The fish-eye lens, which captures a 160-degree angle by convexing an image to fit on the screen, has an ultra-wide 12mm focal length and works with a variety of Lensbaby’s interchangeable aperture disks, ranging from...

Lensbaby Debuts Line For Optic Swap System

23 April 2009
Published in Camera Lenses

Lensbaby has launched a new line of selective focus lenses: the Composer, the Muse and the Control Freak. Each new lens features the new Lensbaby Optic Swap System, which features four interchangeable optic options for enhanced specific effects.

All three lenses provide a new way to control depth of field by bringing one area of a photo into sharpest focus with the sweet spot surrounded by graduated blur. By bending the lens, the photographer can move this sharp area around the viewfinder image for customized creative effects.

Lensbaby has introduced a completely new lens with the Composer. The lens is based on...

Lensbabies Expands Series

27 July 2005
Published in Camera Lenses

Lensbabies has developed a second entry in its line of selective-focus SLR camera lenses. Lensbaby 2 and the Original Lensbaby bring one area of a photo into sharp focus, surrounded by graduated blur, glowing highlights and prismatic color distortions. Photographers can move the sharp area around the photo by bending the flexible lens tubing.

Lensbaby 2 features an f/2.0 aperture setting in addition to the original’s f/2.8, f/4.0, f/5.6 and f/8.0. The new Lensbaby also has a coated, high refractive index, a low-dispersion optical glass doublet, and minimal diffusion even at the f/2.0 aperture setting. Its levitating magnetic aperture system, which uses...

Original Lensbaby Offers Versatility

26 April 2005
Published in Camera Lenses

The Original Lensbaby is a flexible camera lens that creates an area of focus surrounded by a graduated blur, with greater versatility, convenience, creative control and new effects. The unique imagery is particularly attractive for portrait, wedding, product and fashion photographers.

An image created by a Lensbaby has a circular area of sharp focus. The photographer can move the in-focus area by bending the flexible lens tubing in any direction. The farther from this sharp area, the greater the...