Via facebook Lensbaby announced that it will show a new lens on April 7. This is likely going to be a 55mm f/1.6 lens. It’s yet not clear if there will be a Micro Four Third mount version of the lens. I think they will ship a Canon mount version first and a MFT mount version later just like it happened with the 58mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
via Photographybay.
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Tried to use both the lenbaby 50mm and 35mm on mft camera. Because interesting things happen on the edges. 50mm is near useless because of the crop. 35mm is ok but there is no mft mount sold with 35mm. You have to buy the mft 50mm first and buy the 35mm lens part. So at last I returned all of them.
Their whole catalog of products is targeted toward interesting effects. They aren’t meant to be products for mainstream photography.
Yes, actually what i mean is that the interesting things happened on the edges are cropped out on mft camera, you can hardly notice the difference between the center in focal area (sweet spot) and the blur edges on lensbaby 50mm. When using lensbaby 35mm on mft, you can see some of the blur edges but much less dramatic than FF. Unless lensbaby make a new one designed for MFT sensor size then I would not recommend any of these for mft user.
That sounds like a job for Photoshop!
No thanks, baby…
MFT version will be released at the end of May (as per the folks at Lensbaby). And BTW, you CAN buy the Composer Pro/Sweet 35 combo. No need to buy the 50mm if it doesn’t work for you.