The following video presents Velvet56 and 85 Product Overview:
“Bring an impressionistic feel and film-like aesthetic to your images with Velvet 56 and Velvet 85 art lenses. At bright apertures your photographs will be sharp with an overlaid glow from edge-to-edge. Use darker apertures for a crisp vintage look. And shoot macro to see the world in an entirely new, super close way. Create miniature macro worlds, rich landscapes, otherworldly street scenes, and more with our versatile Velvet 56 art lens. Building on the strengths of our bestselling Velvet 56 lens, Velvet 85 combines lustrous skin tones with the added compression and buttery smooth bokeh found in the best 85mm portrait lenses. Use its macro capabilities to capture significant details with new life. Both lens designs features a solid heft and smooth, dampened manual focus.“
Lensbaby recently released the Limited Edition Velvet Lenses & Twist Lens Gift Set.
This limited edition gift set consists of the following:
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Lensbaby Velvet 85
- Velvet 85: 85mm f/1.8 Lens
Lensbaby Twist 60
- Twist 60 Lens
- 2 Customs Lens Cases
- Lens Cleaning Cloth (14” x 14”)
- Lensbaby Wrist Strap
- Lens Caps
- Rear Caps
- User Guides
Lensbaby’s most popular lenses are Velvet 56, Velvet 85, and Twist 60.
Lensbaby Velvet 56: Photo by Kathleen Clemons
Both Velvet 56 and Velvet 85 give images an “ethereal glow and crisp vintage feel;” have 1:2 macro capability as well, focusing as close as 5” or 9.5” respectively.
Lensbaby Velvet 56: Photo by Ute Reckhorn
Shoot at bright apertures to create soft, dreamy images with underlying sharpness and detail or stop down to darker apertures to capture a classic, film-like quality in your images…With their all-metal lens bodies, these lenses feature the heft and smooth, dampened manual focusing of classic mid-20th-century lenses.
Twist 60 is a 60mm f/2.5 lens for full frame SLR and Mirrorless Cameras.
Lensbaby Twist 60: Photo by Nuno Caldeira
- This lens is a metal-bodied, non-tilting lens that is recommended for full frame cameras only.
- Twist 60 is part of Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System.
True to the 1840 design by Joseph Petzval, this lens reveals striking separation between your subject and their background with delicious twisty, swirly blur. Shooting at bright apertures delivers subtle vignette bringing extra attention to anything you place within the large central area of focus for a timeless, vintage look. As you stop down the area of focus gets larger while still creating subtle swirling at the edges.
The following video presents Twist 60:
“Introducing Twist 60, a non-tilting lens that frames your subjects in deliciously twisty, swirly blur. Discover what you can do with a fresh perspective and a new lens.“
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