Lensbaby has introduced the Velvet 56, a portrait lens with an f/1.6 aperture and 1:2 magnification, as well as a minimum focus distance of 5 inches. Lensbaby claims the lens produces ‘soft, glowing’ effects at brighter apertures for a ‘velvety’ quality the lens is named for. Read more
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Lensbaby has announced its Circular Fisheye 5.8mm f/3.5 lens is now available with new mount options. Launched in April for Canon and Nikon DSLRs, the Circular Fisheye will soon be offered with Micro Four Thirds, Nikon F, Sony A and E, Samsung NX, Canon EF, and Pentax K mounts. Read more
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Your effort to add a little sparkle to your photos has left your friends more shocked than excited… confetti in the face!
Try the new special edition Lensbaby Spark Lens next time for magical glitter explosions in your pics without the real life problem of “confetti eye.”
This limited edition lens attaches to your DSLR and gives you more creative control with tilt shift style and 9 special shaped plates for cool bokeh effects in your pics and videos.
Turn bursts of natural and colorful light in your pics into explosions of glowing hearts, stars, flowers and more! Your photos (and video too) will be full of the dreamy shine and sparkle you’ve been looking for.
Put Away the Confetti and Grab the Spark
$ 129.95 at the Photojojo Shop
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Lensbaby has announced that its LM-10 Sweet Spot lens for mobile devices is available immediately through its online store and retailers worldwide. The LM-10 concept was unveiled back in April with a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than twice the amount needed to see the lens go into production. Alongside the LM-10, Lensbaby has also announced the Sweet 50 optic. The Sweet 50, a selective-focus 50mm lens, works with Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System and is also available now. Read more
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The “Sweet Spot” is more than an excellent name for a tiny pie shop or puppy massage spa … it’s exactly what you need to make your photos really stand out.
Meet the LM-10 Sweet Spot Phone Lens! With it, our pals at Lensbaby are bringing they’re years of creative lens making expertise to the phoneography game.
Stick a removable metal ring to your phone then attach the LM-10 via magnet to add brilliant blur and extra artsiness to your photos and videos.
The LM-10 sports on extra magnet on its end so you can snap on a second lens! Add a Photojojo Phone Lens for a bit of extra drama.
…and if you’re still thinking about those pies and puppies, the Lensbaby LM-10 will help you take more creative photos and videos of those too.
Find Your Sweet Spot
$ 70 at the Photojojo Shop
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A dedicated circular fisheye lens from Lensbaby for under $ 300.00 sounds great, but how does it perform?
Lensbaby Circular Fisheye 5.8mm f/3.5 Lens
Lensbaby kindly sent me their new Circular Fisheye lens (the Canon version) to review about four weeks ago, and I can tell you that I’ve had a load of fun with it since then! The Lensbaby Circular Fisheye is best used (or optimized for) APS-C sensor sized cameras. I’ve been using it on a full frame Canon 5D and actually quite like the results it gives. You can see in the photographs below that it is a full circle, you might also note the shiny outer ring in the photographs – this is because the little lens has a polished barrel. With the barrel being polished, you can mess about getting neat flare and shine into your images, but you can also avoid that by tilting the lens away from direct light and moving it around to suit.
The 5.8mm f/3.5 circular fisheye from Lensbaby is a full manual lens, it doesn’t talk to your camera, it only talks to your hand – aperture ring and focus ring are within easy reach, feels good in your hand, sturdy and solid enough. The little lens has a pop-on, pop-off plastic lens cover and a plastic mount.
The Lensbaby Circular Fisheye will focus (manually, remember everything is manual) really really close – 1/4″ close and then out to infinity.. Which means it’s hilariously perfect for when your baby decides to lick the lens – a photo series I thought about producing, but strangely nobody else wanted to lick it after baby slobber! Ah well.
With a maximum aperture of f/3.5 it’s fast enough for most situations and with an ISO bump in dimly lit rooms, I wasn’t left wanting.
The field of view is 185° which is very very wide… like, see behind you wide – well, almost!
Yes, that’s Fro Knows Photo, yes he was holding my lens… We were together for a week in Israel – more on that later!
I’m not going to talk about edge to edge sharpness or chromatic aberration, I think we’re sort of missing the point if we’re looking at those factors in a $ 299 lens – this lens is about making fun photographs. It’s sharp enough, it’s well built and pretty sturdy – I’ve taken it from Melbourne, to Coffs Harbour, to Israel and back and it’s performed really well. Is it worth the price tag, yes absolutely.
I’d say people that enjoy exploring different types of photography would enjoy this lens, people that like making fun pictures will love it. Sure, it’s not the Canon 8-15mm L series Fisheye, but then it’s not $ 1500 either.
People that have a spare $ 1500 to drop on the L series Canon (or Nikon.. sorry, not sure which Nikon fits the bill)
My opening line “how does it perform” is kind of a silly thing to ask on a cheap lens, and lets face it, this is a cheap lens by comparison to other available options. So for the fun the lens brings and for its affordable price point, Lensbaby, I give you five of the available five stars – good stuff! (And no, you can’t have your lens back!)
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When Lensbaby launched the Kickstarter project for its ‘Sweet Spot’ selective focus lens at the beginning of April it was initially iPhone only. Now the company has added a pledge level for Android users, too. For $ 50 you can pre-order the Sweet Spot lens and the Android application for your device. Delivery is expected in October. Learn more
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Lensbaby, maker of popular selective focus lenses, has announced a 5.8mm F3.5 circular fisheye lens for Canon and Nikon mounts. With a 185° angle of view, the lens produces a full-circle fisheye image when used with APS-C-sized sensor cameras. The lens also allows you to focus as close as 1/4-inch. Lensbaby is taking pre-orders now. The circular fisheye will sell for $ 299.95. Learn more
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Lensbaby is well known among DSLR photographers for its array of special-effect lenses. Now the Portland, Oregon-based company wants to expand into mobile photography and has launched a Kickstarter project to fund the final development stage of its Lensbaby Sweet Spot lens for iPhones. Learn more
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A brief introduction to the features of the Lensbaby Composer Pro. The Composer Pro refines and enhances the popular and award winning Lensbaby Composer by upgrading the swivel ball and focus mechanism to provide professional performance. Composer Pro is the perfect choice for discerning professional photographers and videographers. For more info or to purchase please visit our website here: www.lensbaby.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Chris Adler Clinic at The Bienes Center for the Arts with Resurrection Drums, Mapex Drums, Aquarian Drumheads, ProMark, Zoom, Meinl, and Gibraltar. March 16, 2011. Filmed with Nikon Coolpix S80.
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