Release Issued by Intro2020:
Lensbabies Launches Lensbaby 2.0 for Brighter, Sharper, Faster Selective Focus Photography
Lensbabies have recently launched Lensbaby 2.0, a second-generation selective focus SLR camera lens, bringing brighter, sharper, and faster selective focus photography to professional and avid amateur photographers.
Lensbaby 2.0 and The Original Lensbaby bring one area of a photo into sharp focus, with that ‘sweet spot’ surrounded by graduated blur, glowing highlights, and subtle prismatic color distortions. Photographers can fluidly move the sharp area around the photo by bending the flexible lens tubing.
Lensbaby 2.0 features an f2.0 aperture setting in addition to The Original Lensbaby’s f2.8, f4.0, f5.6 and f8.0. With Lensbaby 2.0, a photographer can control the size of the sweet spot of sharp focus by changing the apertures. The brighter the aperture, the smaller the sweet spot of focus and the greater the amount of graduated blurring in the photo’s surrounding area.
Lensbaby 2.0 also features a coated, high refractive index, low dispersion optical glass doublet instead of the singled uncoated optical glass element in The Original Lensbaby and a levitating magnetic aperture system that makes changing apertures faster than with The Original Lensbaby. Lensbaby 2.0 uses three shielded magnets embedded inside the optics cup to suspend metallicized aperture disks just above the coated optical glass doublet. When a photographer drops an aperture disk into Lensbaby 2.0, it quickly snaps into position. Removal is also very easy: Lensbabies provides a complimentary Cell-Klear™ Lenspen® that the photographer inserts through the center hole in the aperture disk to lift it out.
Both Lensbaby 2.0 and The Original Lensbaby combine several vintage camera technologies in a novel, combination. The shooter focuses a Lensbaby using the same general principle used with a bellows camera, by moving the focusing collar in and out with his or her fingertips. The photographer moves the ‘sweet spot’ of focus around the picture by bending the glass optic out of a parallel position to the image capture plane, like a tilt-shift lens.
• Available in mounts for Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K, Olympus E1, Minolta Dynax, Canon FD,
• Focal Length: right around 50 mm
• Focus Type: Manual, fingertip, actually
• Optical element: coated, high refractive index, low dispersion optical glass doublet
• Aperture Type: Interchangeable levitating magnetic apertures
• Apertures: f2.0, f2.8, f4, f5.6, f8
• Nominal Focus: approximately 18 inches
• Maximum Focus: infinity and beyond
• Minimum Focus: approximately 10 inches Size: 2.25" high x 2.5" wide
• Weight: ~3.6 oz.
• Suggested Retail Price: £109.99 inc VAT.
For full information please see the Intro 2020 web site at: www.intro2020.co.uk
