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Just wanted to let you all see this if you haven't already. It's a cool lil "lens" that you can bend and get some cool effects with.
http://www.lensbaby.com/
Barry_S
08-02-2005, 01:32 PM
Yeah, it looks like a commercial version of Mark Tucker's Plungercam.
http://www.marktucker.com/plungercam/
I've been sort of tempted to get one, but the samples I've seen don't look all that impressive. Then again Mark Tucker's not doing the shooting. :) It's a cheap enough toy, though.
theos
08-03-2005, 11:23 PM
I have seen a lens baby in action, not that easy to get what you want at first . . . maybe with practice :)
Safford Productions
12-21-2005, 09:31 AM
What bothers me about the lens baby is that they started out with a $99 lens baby that is a f2.8 and now have a 2.0 model that uses magnetic force to attached the aperture rings to the lens for $149. You have to manually insert the correct aperture F8, f11, etc. onto the lens assembly. No electronics works on your camera. It seems that for a lens of this type which is very cheap that they would have just made the improvement and kept the price the same. I tried one on a demo cam at the PPA convention last year and it was fun. But, they are approaching the price of cheaper macro lenses. It is, after all, just a toy.