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Lensbaby 2.0 Review
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Review Summary
Rarely in the photography world does a new camera component come along that's not only useful and original but also cheap. When inventor Craig Strong released the Original Lensbaby in 2004, it met all of those criteria, quickly becoming popular among SLR photographers who care about art more than they do about technical perfection. Essentially a simple lens with a flexible barrel, the Lensbaby lets you manually select an area of sharp focus and leaves the rest of the image blurry.
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Other Reviews For This Model
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| Camera Hobby |
10.00 |
05-23-05 |
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| When I looked at the original Lensbaby last August, I found it to be a fun little lens to use. It's a way to be creative using some imagination and just trying all the permutations of the flexible lens body. The only major gripe I had is with the manner in which one had to change the aperture, which is via discs placed inside the front well of the Lensbaby, secured by a rubber stopper. |
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| Cameratown |
7.17 |
04-12-05 |
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| The Lensbaby, invented by Craig Strong of Lensbaby.com, is a selective focus SLR camera lens. The lens is mounted on flexible tubing, giving photographers the ability to move the in-focus "sweet spot" around the picture by bending the flexible tube. The lens will give you a unique look with blurring, glowing highlights, and subtle, prismatic color distortions - all without software manipulations. There are now two versions of the Lensbaby. This review will focus on the latest Lensbaby 2.0 model. |
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| Dans Data |
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01-22-06 |
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| "The Lensbaby puts you in more direct contact with the photographic process, by letting you physically move the lens around with your very own fingers. Push it in to focus further away, pull it out to focus closer, wiggle and twist it from side to side to shift the focus point around the frame, and distort the image.
The v2.0 Lensbaby's maximum aperture gives it a respectable f-number - 2.0. That big an aperture gives it not a whole lot of depth of field, but it lets in more light than most lenses out there. F2.8 is as much as you'll get from the lenses on most consumer digital cameras, and f3.5 is common; f2.0 lets in twice as much light as f2.8, and three times as much as f3.5, allowing your exposure time to be proportionately shorter." |
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| Imaging-Resource |
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08-05-06 |
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| Review: "It's a "selective focus" lens for your dSLR, which means you can control how much and which part of the scene is in focus by squeezing the lens into its bellows extension. Fully extended, the Lensbaby focuses about 12 inches ahead. As you pull in and bend the flexible extension, you change focus and move the lens's sweet spot around.
Sure, it's a gadget lens but it's surprising how often it's just the right approach. Even with the macro kit, which we highly recommend, it isn't expensive. Unless you count the second camera body you'll inevitably want to acquire to keep it handy!" |
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