B&GH has Lensbaby Professional Kits for varied digicam techniques on sale for $779.95 USD which is an enormous saving of $620 USD.
Key options
- Velvet 85mm f/1.8 Lens
- Burnside 35mm f/2.8 Lens
- Twist 60mm f/2.5 Lens
- Optic Swap System Case
Comprising a trio of inventive and common Lensbaby optics, the Professional Equipment consists of the Velvet 85mm f/1.8, the Burnside 35mm f/2.8, and the Twist 60mm f/2.5 lenses, plus an Optic Swap System Case to hold and shield your lenses.
Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 Lens
A singular brief telephoto with distinct basic enchantment, the Velvet 85mm f/1.8 from Lensbaby produces a mid-Twentieth century-inspired picture high quality that’s well-suited to portraiture. Characterised by a clean, glowing aesthetic, this lens’s softness might be managed by stopping down so as to produce a variety of results from delicate and dreamy to sharper and crunchier at smaller apertures. A 12-blade diaphragm additionally contributes to the lens’s aesthetic, and helps to provide a clean bokeh high quality to go well with shallow depth of area imagery. Moreover, the handbook focus design affords a working distance of 9.5″ with a most copy ratio of 1:2 to profit working with close-up topics.
The brief telephoto portrait-length lens is designed for full-frame cameras, nevertheless, it will also be used with APS-C fashions the place it offers a 136mm equal focal size. The intense f/1.8 most aperture affords larger management over depth of area for working with shallow depth of area and selective focus methods, and in addition advantages working in low-light situations.
Softness might be managed by stopping-down the lens: when stopped-down to f/16, the picture displays a clean high quality with larger central sharpness.
A working distance of 9.5″ together with a 1:2 copy ratio fits working with close-up topics. The handbook focus design with a clean, dampened focusing motion is complemented by engraved focus distance indicators. A 12-blade diaphragm contributes to a clean bokeh high quality that’s ultimate for selective focus imagery.
Lensbaby Burnside 35mm f/2.8 Lens
A singular lens characterised by its swirly bokeh, the Burnside 35 from Lensbaby is a 35mm f/2.8 prime. That includes two separate diaphragms, an in depth quantity of management over selective focus and bokeh high quality is feasible, with the flexibility to work with massive in-focus areas or smaller in-focus areas surrounded by a definite out-of-focus swirl. The six components, 4 teams optical design additionally contributes to the distinctive look, and every of the glass components have been multi-coated to manage flare and ghosting so as to notice excessive distinction and correct coloration rendering. Along with totally handbook publicity management, the lens additionally requires handbook focus operation and has a minimal focusing distance of 6″ for working with close-up topics.
Common wide-angle prime is designed for full-frame cameras, nevertheless, will also be used with APS-C fashions the place it offers a 56mm equal focal size. Distinctive optical design options six multi-coated components in 4 teams and is designed to provide imagery with a big space of central sharpness surrounded by distinct, swirly bokeh and pronounced vignetting.
Twin diaphragm design incorporates a main six-blade diaphragm to manage publicity and to introduce the specified quantity of swirly out-of-focus within the picture, with bigger apertures producing the smallest in-focus space and most swirl and smaller apertures producing a bigger in-focus space with minimal swirl. A secondary eight-blade diaphragm might be adjusted utilizing the bronze impact slider on the aspect of the lens barrel, and is used to manage the quantity of vignetting in addition to the standard of the bokeh within the out-of-focus areas of the picture. When vast open, the swirl high quality can be softer and when closed down, there can be larger element within the swirl and extra vignetting can be obvious. The handbook focus design has a clean, dampened focusing motion is complemented by engraved focus distance indicators.
Lensbaby Twist 60 Optic with Straight Physique for Canon EF
Draw consideration to your topic by making a clean refined swirl to your edges with the Lensbaby Twist 60 Optic with Straight Physique. This optic is suitable with the Optic Swap System and performs greatest when used with the included straight physique. This full-frame 60mm f/2.5 lens options an inside 12-blade diaphragm for clean out-of-focus areas. You may manually change the aperture from f/2.5 to f/22 using the dial on the entrance of the lens and you’ll manually concentrate on topics as shut as 18″.
When taking pictures at a wider aperture, the Twist 60’s swirled impact locations extra emphasis in your centered topic in full focus. As you cease down, the middle space will get bigger permitting you to deliver extra of your picture into precise focus. The Twist 60 presents 46mm entrance threads for any filters you want to use to additional improve your picture.
The Twist 60 works greatest and is really useful to be used with full body cameras. A lot of the swirled blur will get misplaced when utilizing the optic with an APS-C sensor.
