Comments on: Lens Baby…Baby

By: Liana

Liana — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:11:18 +0000

I have the 3G Lensbaby, and I love it. I love using the lens, because it makes me think about the shot I want to take, what I want in focus. I am a beginning to intermediate photographer, so having to compose my shot as I want to see it out of the camera is helpful to my learning process. I come from a visual effects background, so I understand I can do most things in post. As Alex wrote, I like the “organic” nature of it.

@Francois Hogue: The 3G Lensbaby can be locked in to place once you find your focus. The other two must be held in place during the image capture to get your desired result.

By: pom

pom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:19:45 +0000

I've had a lensbaby 2.0 (that I use on a 350D) since December that I just pulled out again this past weekend. I had a good time photographing chickens.

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:18:34 +0000

Alex, what advantage do you see to using the lens baby over defocusing the image with photo editing software?

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:04:30 +0000

wow, I’ll have to try this “lens baby”, look fun. Thanks for sharing Alex

By: Francois Hogue

Francois Hogue — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:32:12 +0000

Thanks “univrsltransl8r” :
I had a look to their web site but I was searching for that kind of summary.
I will probably buy the second generation.

By: univrsltransl8r

univrsltransl8r — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:34:28 +0000

I’ve been looking at LensBabies… they are on my must-have list.

@Francois Hogue: The lensbabies website has a great breakdown on all the differences, but from what I can tell, it’s basically:
1: Original design, some chromatic aberration, rubber gasket system for holding aperture rings
2: Improved design, less chromatic aberration, easier magnetic system for aperture rings
3: Like #2, but with fine adjustments, better for studio or precise/macro work.

By: Richard Ford - SinoPerture

Richard Ford - SinoPerture — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:24:47 +0000

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