Lensbaby LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for iPhone announced

lensbaby-sweet-spotFor those of you out there who have not heard about Lensbaby before, they happen to be the ones behind creative effects camera lenses for DSLRs, mirrorless and motion picture cameras. This time around, they are back with another addition to their growing portfolio, which would be the release of the LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for iPhone. This happens to be the company’s very first lens that was specially designed for mobile devices, and to see the iPhone receive it first compared to other smartphone makes does not surprise us the least bit. With the LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for iPhone, iPhone shutterbugs will gain the ability to create Lensbaby’s signature depth-of-field look, the “sweet spot” of focus, surrounded by gradually increasing blur.

This is made possible thanks to the magnetically-attaching creative effects accessory lens that will be sold on an exclusive basis on popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com. Considering how photo sharing has become extremely popular in addition to photo filter apps really taking off big time, smartphone users tend to be on the lookout to figure out new ways to unleash their creativity. The Lensbaby Sweet Spot Lens for iPhones would be able to offer such an opportunity, being a fun and easy tool to make photos pop on social media channels.

The LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for iPhone is a patent pending lens that will play nice with the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, and iPhone 5c, allowing photographers to focus on a single spot of sharp focus in their image surrounded by gradually increasing blur. This remains their most popular effect in their existing product range, and it is no surprise.

All that you need to do is adhere one of the Lensbaby-provided super-strong, adhesive-backed stainless steel rings around the phone’s lens, where the magnets located on the ends of the lens would then allow it to be attached as well as removed from your iPhone without breaking a sweat. Thanks to a magnet located on both sides of the lens, shutterbugs can use other magnetic mobile phone accessory lenses too, including wide angle, macro, telephoto, polarizing filters, the works, on their Sweet Spot Lens to alter their focal length.

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A Lensbaby For Your iPhone That Makes Mobile Photography More Creative

A Lensbaby For Your iPhone That Makes Mobile Photography More Creative

For photographers looking to get really creative with their gear, Lensbaby is well known for its various DSLR lenses that can create tilt-shift and other popular effects. But for the first time, the company is letting iPhone photographers get in on the fun too, with a tiny smartphone-friendly lens providing extreme focus effects.

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Lensbaby Spark Review: Magical Camera Blur Effects, If You Fuss With It [Lightning Review]

Tilt-shift photography is all the rage. It’s based on a type of lens that distorts perspective and focal plane to create atmospheric blur effects. Tilt-shift lenses are usually cray expensive, but Lensbaby makes a whole line of blur-tastic lenses for cheap. Their newest toy for a DSLR, the Spark, only costs $80. But does it deliver anything worthwhile? More »

The Lensbaby Spark accessory will let you create distorted photos

Sure we could always edit our photos on the computer after taking them, but sometimes that’s just an additional unnecessary step if a photograph was taken with the right settings and the right technique. However if you prefer experimenting with your photographs then the new Lensbaby Spark add-ons might be worth checking out. For those wondering what the Spark does, it basically allows the photographer to create a tilt-shift effect where they can choose where they want the focus to be in a photo while the rest of the background is blurred out, or “bokeh” if you’d rather. The lens on the Spark can be swapped out with other lenses from Lensbaby, letting photographers mix and match and come up with some unique creations and with a price tag of $80, it’s not the most expensive camera accessory you can buy and could be worth getting your hands on for some interesting photos. More details about the Spark can be found on Lensbaby’s website along with sample photos and a way to place your order.

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Lensbaby Spark delivers selective focus for 80 bucks, we go hands-on (sample images)

Lensbaby Spark delivers selective focus for 80 bucks, we go handson sample images

What do you see when you look through a Lensbaby? Well, take a gander for yourself — that image just above was shot with the company’s new Spark. The $80 selective-focus optic is available for Canon and Nikon mounts, and brings f/5.6 shooting with a 50mm focal length, and, of course, that trademark Lensbaby bokeh. We caught up with the new lens at Photokina, and unlike many of the cameras we’ve seen so far, we were permitted to shoot some sample images.

Snapping with any Lensbaby takes a fair amount of practice and patience, but the Spark is designed to simplify the process somewhat, with an interior barrel that prevents you from venturing too far past the focal plane, along with a more straightforward design — simply frame your shot, focus and bend the lens towards your subject to blur out any other elements in the scene. Calculating exposure with the Spark can take some work, so we tweaked and cropped our sample images just a bit — besides that, what you see is what you get, so click through our gallery below to see the Spark, shot by another Spark. So meta.

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Lensbaby lets your imagination run wild on a budget with the Spark, an $80 selective-focus lens

Lensbaby lets your imagination run wild on a budget with the Spark, an $80 selectivefocus lens

Lensbaby, maker of creative optics that let you take pictures you’d otherwise have to make in Photoshop is going after youthful crowd with its newest product, the Spark. The selective focus lens attaches to your Canon or Nikon DSLR, allowing you to create bokeh-rich images — simply squeeze the unit to focus and tilt it on its axis to move the “sweet spot” as you go. The 50mm lens features a fixed f/5.6 aperture and focuses from 13-inches to infinity, and goes on sale from today from the company’s website, Amazon and specialist retailers who deal in such things.

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