From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses
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Lensbaby
- Now Rich, if you've been around sort of specialty kind of fun lenses for a while, - Yep. - no doubt you probably heard the name Lensbaby. - Yeah. - What is a Lensbaby? - Well they've been around for a long time, and the original Lensbabies were sort of a bellows type system and you literally bent the lens. You could push it in or out, - Yeah. - It was a lot of fun. It was kind of like an accordion. - Yeah. - And it would produce weird looking results, except when you let go, it didn't hold its shape. - Right, and sort of the look that you got from a original Lensbaby was kind of part tilt shift, part toy camera. They gave you very out of focus areas, some noticeable sort of corner distortion in the image, and it created some very cool looks, but it was hard to repeat what was going on in the shot. - Yeah, and they've sort of stepped that up. So now, they make what's called a composer. - Yep. - Which is essentially what holds the lens baby. - Okay. - And you see that, we've got a…
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