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What does Lensbaby mean in photography?
Lensbaby is a line of camera lenses for DSLR and mirrorless cameras that combine a simple lens with a bellows or ball and socket mechanism for use in special-effect photography.
What can you do with Lensbaby?
Lensbaby is a system that allows you to insert, and use, different optics to a base lens. The most common one is the Composer Pro which has a rotating ball so you can use different angles when taking photos.
Where are Lensbaby lenses made?
Portland, Oregon
And Lensbaby is effectively and quietly doing just that. The Portland, Oregon-based camera creative lens manufacturer eschews what might be considered traditional setups in favor of a more personal — and more affordable — approach. The company was started in October 2003 by co-founders Craig Strong and Sam Pardue.
Which unusual effects are possible with the Lensbaby lens?
The unique features with a Lensbaby lens is essentially this: it has a spot in the middle that is in focus and an intense outward blur from there. In some instances it behaves much like a tilt-shift lens, especially when you are photographing architecture.
What is a Lensbaby Composer?
The Lensbaby Composer is basically a ball and socket with a lens set installed in the front (ball) portion of the assembly. To move the sharp-focused area around in the frame, the lens elements are pivoted on the ball. Friction on the ball is controlled by the rear black-ribbed ring that fine-click-stops into place.
What does a Lensbaby Spark do?
Lensbaby has announced the Spark 2.0 lens and its design draws inspiration from the original Lensbaby launched in 2004. The new lens allows you to adjust the ‘sweet spot’ of focus by physically bending the lens across a wide range of angles. You can adjust where the spot of focus is across the entire frame.
What does Lensbaby velvet do?
The Lensbaby Velvet 56 is a macro lens that delivers a soft focus look when shot at wide apertures, but sharpens when stopped down. Its one-of-a-kind design earns it Editors’ Choice honors. PCMag editors select and review products independently.
What are Lensbaby Composer lenses?
There are three generations of Lensbaby Composer lenses – the Composer, the Composer Pro, and the Composer Pro II.AllComposer series lenses are simply tiltable housings on a ball and socket mechanism that mount directly to your camera. Choose the lens body that fits your camera system.
Is Lensbaby Composer compatible with Canon EOS?
Lensbaby Composer Review. Lensbaby lenses are available in mounts for Canon EF (EOS), Nikon F, Sony Alpha A / Minolta Maxxum, Pentax K / Samsung GX and Olympus E1 / Panasonic Lumix DMC. For the most part, there is no worry about compatibility since there is no communication between the camera body and the lens.
What is a composer series lens?
What is a Composer series lens? There are three generations of Lensbaby Composer lenses – the Composer, the Composer Pro, and the Composer Pro II.AllComposer series lenses are simply tiltable housings on a ball and socket mechanism that mount directly to your camera. Choose the lens body that fits your camera system.
What is the Lensbaby creative aperture kit?
The very inexpensive Lensbaby Creative Aperture Kit provides an f/4 star shaped aperture disk, an f/4 heart shaped disk and 5 blank disks. “By using these disks, points of light in out-of-focus areas of the photo take on the same shape as the center opening of the aperture disk.