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Lensbaby 2.0 Minolta Maxxum Mount SLR Camera Lens (LB2M) | 
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| Brand: Lensbabies
Category: Photography
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $99.95
You Save: $50.00 (33%)
New (3) from $99.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 2.5 x 2.1 x 2.5
MPN: LB2M
Model: LB2M
UPC: 188772000166
EAN: 0188772000166
ASIN: B000GAB37S
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | High refractive index, low dispersion, coated glass doublet allows tack sharp sweet spot | | • | Magnetically suspended disc aperture system allows f/2.0, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8.0 aperture settings. All aperture settings included. | | • | 37 mm threads allow you to attach Lensbaby Macro Kit lenses, wide angle and telephoto conversion lenses, and other filters and accessories | | • | Anodized aluminum components provide an extremely durable design | | • | Note: Lensbaby does not communicate electronically with your camera body |
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Product Description
The Lensbaby 2.0 is a flexible camera lens that brings 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 Lensbabys 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 photos surrounding area. The glass used is a coated, high refractive index, low dispersion optical glass doublet which produces more detail in the area of focus compared to the Original Lensbaby. The Lensbaby 2.0 also features a levitating magnetic aperture system that makes changing apertures faster than before. It uses three shielded magnets embedded inside the optics cup to suspend metallicized plastic 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Gift September 30, 2008
I've had 3G for a while and when a friend mentioned she would like it ... I got it for her.... she dos a lot of art photography.... and absolutely loves it just a much as I love mine
Run, don't walk to get this lens! August 9, 2008
If you are looking to add some fun and flair to your photos or respark your creativity, then you NEED this lens. I can't tell you anything that you can't better learn for yourself once you've got it attached to your camera, except that it's cheap (by digital photographic standards) and it's a blast. Check out my customer photos at the top of the page for this item - all of those were taken in the first 15 minutes after my Lensbaby 2.0 arrived on the doorstep today (though they were taken using the additional 0.6x macro/wide angle attachment on the lens as well - another worthy investment).
Creative June 1, 2008
I've got this lens for about a year now. I haven't used it that much lately, but every time i do i have lots of fun. You get creative immediately. If you don't have an external meter, you will learn a thing or two about photography also cause this lens doesn't communicate with the camera (at least with mine... Nikon D80). It's a great way of getting the feel for light and f/stops. So either if you get it for the extremely selective focusing, crazy creative fun or learning a little bit more about light. I highly recommend it.
 Definitely adds fun to your photos! August 25, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a huge fan of tilt shift photography and this makes it so easy- good for newbies and pros alike. I bought it to use with my Olympus e-500 and it works great! Takes a little getting used to- but once you get a hang of it - it's a lot of fun to use! I've been comparing photos I've taken with it to ones I took with a regular SLR (same shots)- and the lensbaby certainly makes an ordinary photo more interesting. It's light and fits nicely in my camera bag. Comes with a little fabric bag to store it in. Instructions are easy- but just to note- in English only. If you really want to have more fun with your photo taking- This is a great way to do it. I wish it came with a sun filter to protect the lens. Not sure if they make one for it or not.
What a fun lens January 29, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This lens looked to be way too much fun for $150, so I took a chance and bought one and am happy I did. It does take some practice to get the focusing down but it is fun to learn and experiment with. I have mostly L lenses and was suprised by the photo quality this lens produces. It is not in the same league as an L lens but still produces nice images. The f/stop inserts are easy to use but I did have to find a place in my camera bag to keep them. You really need to have control of your settings to get the exposure correct, but I am having lots of fun with it. The quality and having to keep up with a seperate bag of inserts is why I rate this at 4 stars but for fun it is definitely a 5.
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