Lensbaby
Need To Do Some Rule Bending
September 28, 2008 08:06 AM
Do you need to change your focus?
How about the Lensbaby Muse, Composer or Control Freak?
By Robert Lachman
I just used my original style Lensbaby the other day. It can really produce some creative pics with an amazing shallow depth-of-field. Did I say shallow depth-of-field, I meant to say no depth-of-field?
Lensbaby has a va
riety of newly designed products including: Lensbaby Muse, Composer and Control Freak. They operate in a different ways but produce similar results changing the tilt of the lens elements axis and changing its normal parallel relationship to the film plane.
Normally this is used
to create perspective control with 4-by-5 camera with bellows using swing-and-tilts to straighten architectural lines. With the Lensbaby, you use the same principals but do a lot of tilting to shallow up the depth-of-field and break the rules.
The new Composer really looks great. Normally with the old school Lensbaby you really need three hands to work it and holding your camera, focusing and changing the depth-of-field. Also, every photo was different because there was no way to hold the lens in place. I guess that’s real art.
The Composer, with it’s
new design, looks like you can easily change the tilt on the lens and can focus in a more traditional way with a barrel focusing ring instead
of the funky squeeze-the-lens to manually focus. The Lensbaby Composer selective focus DSLR or SLR lens which will be available soon and sells for $270 on their website.
Their ad says, “Those devoted to squeezing can also rejoice! The Original Lensbaby, 2.0 and 3G have not gone away. They have been reborn as the Muse and the Control Freak, updating our classic lenses with the new Lensbaby Optic Swap System. Unleash your vision.”
I want to get the new Control Freak, it really looks great. I could concentrate more on taking pics instead of bending, tilting and squeezing the lens trying to get things in focus. Lensbaby is really moving ahead into some new cutting edge sharp and fuzzy technology.
Your options for the Composer lens mount include: Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony Alpha, Minolta Maxxum, Pentax K, Samsung GX, Sigma SD and Oympus 4/3.
Four photographs taken with the Lensbaby 2.0 by Robert Lachman © 2008
How about the Lensbaby Muse, Composer or Control Freak?
By Robert Lachman
I just used my original style Lensbaby the other day. It can really produce some creative pics with an amazing shallow depth-of-field. Did I say shallow depth-of-field, I meant to say no depth-of-field?
Lensbaby has a va
riety of newly designed products including: Lensbaby Muse, Composer and Control Freak. They operate in a different ways but produce similar results changing the tilt of the lens elements axis and changing its normal parallel relationship to the film plane.Normally this is used
to create perspective control with 4-by-5 camera with bellows using swing-and-tilts to straighten architectural lines. With the Lensbaby, you use the same principals but do a lot of tilting to shallow up the depth-of-field and break the rules.The new Composer really looks great. Normally with the old school Lensbaby you really need three hands to work it and holding your camera, focusing and changing the depth-of-field. Also, every photo was different because there was no way to hold the lens in place. I guess that’s real art.
The Composer, with it’s
new design, looks like you can easily change the tilt on the lens and can focus in a more traditional way with a barrel focusing ring instead of the funky squeeze-the-lens to manually focus. The Lensbaby Composer selective focus DSLR or SLR lens which will be available soon and sells for $270 on their website.Their ad says, “Those devoted to squeezing can also rejoice! The Original Lensbaby, 2.0 and 3G have not gone away. They have been reborn as the Muse and the Control Freak, updating our classic lenses with the new Lensbaby Optic Swap System. Unleash your vision.”
I want to get the new Control Freak, it really looks great. I could concentrate more on taking pics instead of bending, tilting and squeezing the lens trying to get things in focus. Lensbaby is really moving ahead into some new cutting edge sharp and fuzzy technology.
Your options for the Composer lens mount include: Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony Alpha, Minolta Maxxum, Pentax K, Samsung GX, Sigma SD and Oympus 4/3.
Four photographs taken with the Lensbaby 2.0 by Robert Lachman © 2008
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