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Lensbaby The Composer
The Optic Swap System provides even more creative freedom by allowing users to pop-out the crisp multi-coated double glass optic and replace it with a softer, more dream-like single glass optic or with a plastic optic that provides a very ethereal look with strong chromatic aberration. There’s even a pin-hole/zone plate optic that can easily be swapped in or out.
All three Lensbabies now feature the ability to swap out the optics in order to change the overall look and feel of their images. As mentioned above there are three additional add-on optics that are currently available, each with their own special look and feel. The sample images below were shot with each of the optics that are available, starting with the included double-glass optic. The double glass, single glass, and plastic optics create the traditional Lensbaby look with a defined sweet spot of various clarity (depending on optic used). The Pinhole / Zone Plate optic creates images that are softer from edge-to-edge with no defined sweet spot.
The test images below were shot indoors under traditional incandescent lighting. The relatively low lighting created quite a challenge when trying to frame and focus the shot using the Pinhole / Zone Plate optic as the small f/177 (pinhole) and f/19 (Zone Plate) apertures made the scene look completely dark through the viewfinder. I ended up shooting blindly and hoped for the best and had to use long exposures to capture each of the scenes. When shooting through the pinhole lens I even had to bump the ISO to 1600 in order to keep the exposure to 30 seconds.