Lensbaby is a photographic brand that specialises in creating unusual lens systems with the ability to produce artistic and unique images. Its lenses allow photographers to play with focus, depth of field and distortion to achieve artistic and creative images.

Lensbaby was founded in 2004 in Portland, Oregon, USA. The company has quickly grown to become one of the best-known photography brands in the world, winning numerous awards and receiving a lot of positive attention from photography professionals and enthusiasts alike.

Lensbaby lenses are particularly popular with nature photographers, wedding photographers and art photographers. The company has released several different lens systems, each with its own unique uses and features.

Lensbaby lenses are manually focusable, which means that the photographer has to use the camera and lens together to focus on the subject as desired. This can be a challenge for novice photographers, but professional photographers often find this feature valuable when they want to focus on a specific part of the image and create different effects.

Lensbaby lenses are also compatible with a wide range of camera brands, including Canon, Nikon, Sony and Fujifilm. This makes them versatile and easy to use with a wide range of cameras.

One of Lensbaby's most popular lens systems is the Velvet lens, designed to create a soft and velvety look to images. The Velvet lens uses a number of elements to distort light, giving images a particularly soft and romantic look.

Lensbaby's Sweet-optic lens, meanwhile, is designed to deliver a wide focus range and narrow depth of field, allowing you to focus on a specific spot and give beautiful bokeh. Bokeh is a term used to describe the blur that occurs when certain areas of an image are not in focus.

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