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so I finally bought a toy lens

Started Jan 20, 2014 | Discussions thread
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tjobbe
tjobbe Senior Member • Posts: 1,430
so I finally bought a toy lens
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As i saw price that made crushed by resistance on "buy new gear" here some first impressions in the composer pro with DG optics with the NX

So this is how the LensBaby looks attached to an NX3001

Composer Pro with Double Glass 50mm, aperture tool set and loens hood

The pro does not look anything like toyish but feels very solid build and its easy to use (checkout the dpreview article for more)

The 50mm DG is a selective Fokus glas that changes the region where it shows sharp parts by tilting it and the size of the sharp area by changing the aperture plates from f2 (small shar area) to f22 (virtually all sharp)

Its manual focus and can be used in A and M mode with the NX.

The core challenge using it is finding the focus, where the peaking the NX300 supports helps a lot BUT that only applies when the lens is not tilted to the outer area of the frame but centerned only.

As you cannot move the loope to any other place on the display to open up an enlarge its hard to focus anywhere outside of the center (!)

I found the handling in that case with the NX20 and EVF without magnification to work better

Here some first samples all at f2

BW conversion in LR4

you can see the swirly bokeh

 tjobbe's gear list:tjobbe's gear list
Samsung NX300 Samsung NX30 Samyang 35mm F1.4 AS UMC Samsung NX 85mm F1.4 ED SSA Samsung NX 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED +18 more
Samsung NX20 Samsung NX300
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