April 11, 2005
lensbaby

Saw this in this month's PDN:

Lensbabies are lens attachments that allow you to turn your $1500 digital SLR into a $30 Holga.

Lensbabies are the hybrid love children of an old-fashioned bellows camera and an up-tight tilt-shift lens.  Focus your Lensbaby by moving the focusing collar in and out with your fingertips. Move the "sweet spot" of focus around the picture by bending the lens left, right, up, & down, like a fluid tilt-shift lens.

Maybe not for everyone, but I'm intrigued.

Posted by kia at April 11, 2005 09:48 PM
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Yes, but is it Image Stabilized?

Posted by: bug on April 12, 2005 08:48 AM

This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". You can make the same thing yourself with a couple of cheap magnifying glasses and some flexible plastic pipe, which is essentially what the Lensbaby is. A friend of mine who's a toy / old camera fanatic played with one for a day and said it got old fast. Then he went back to shooting thousands of pinhole pictures.

Posted by: forrest on April 27, 2005 07:06 PM
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