Lensbabies are the hybrid of an old-fashioned bellows camera and an up-tight tilt-shift lens.
The photographs have the soft, roughed-up look produced by a Holga™, but using a Lensbaby on your SLR gives you greater versatility as well as the ability to experiment with unique shots.
Focus your Lensbaby using the general principle used with a bellows camera – by moving the focusing collar in and out with your fingertips. Move the ‘sweet spot’ of focus around the picture plane by bending the lens left, right, up, & down, kind of like a tilt-shift lens, but much more fluid and intuitive.
An f/5.6 aperture is installed or you
can quickly change the look by swapping in one of the aperture rings that come with the lens.
The apertures include an impressionistic f/2.8, the versatile f/4 & f/5.6, and the f/8, which is sharper but still has soft edges.
This Lensbaby mount fits Olympus OM camera bodies.
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