We’ve already gotten our hands upon Lensbaby’s simple Composer lens, though a company has now gone as well as expanded its bag of tricks even further with the new Composer with Tilt Transformer pack. The pass bit there is a Tilt Transformer (also accessible alone, that can also accommodate any Nikon mountain lens as well as tilt it up to twice the amount of customary tilt-shift lenses. Have the Panasonic Lumix G Micro System or Olympus COOP Micro Four Thirds camera? Then you can get the pack right away for $350 or only a Tilt Transformer for $250 — Sony NEX camera users will have to wait for until October 28th to get in upon the action. Full press release is after a break, and the hands-on from a Photokina uncover building is only next. Enjoy. Lensbaby Tilt Transformer kit for Micro Four Thirds, Sony NEX cameras hands-on

Show full PR textLensbaby Unveils Composer with Tilt TransformerTM: Two New Products in One for Micro Four Thirds and Sony α NEX cameras:

New creative effects lens for Micro Four Thirds as well as Sony α NEX cameras facilities the Tilt Transformer, vouchsafing photographers fire tilt photography with Nikon mountain lenses with an rare amount of tilt

Portland, OR September 21, 2010 – Lensbaby announces today the newest further to a Lensbaby Creative Effects camera products line-up, the Composer® with Tilt TransformerTM accessible immediately for Panasonic LumixTM G Micro System as well as Olympus PEN® digital cameras as well as in Q4 2010 for Sony® α NEX cameras.

The Tilt Transformer allows photographers to mount any Nikon® mount lens onto their Micro Four Thirds or Sony α NEX camera and lean up to twice a volume of standard tilt-shift lenses, delivering photos that have the cut of concentration by a image, bordered by a soothing fuzz.

“The some-more creative tools available, the improved the photographer can express her or his singular prophesy.” pronounced Craig Strong, Lensbaby Co-Founder as well as President. “We got vehement when we realized which the Lensbaby Optic Swap system could be extended to embody Nikon mountain camera lenses, including primes, fisheyes, zooms as well as macro lenses. This unique pattern for Micro Four Thirds as well as Sony α NEX cameras gives photographers some-more freedom to constraint images they see in their mind’s eye by opening up rare brand-new beautiful opportunities. I’m seeking forward to saying the unique and constrained photographs which detailed artists make with these new creative tools.”

The Tilt Transformer additionally serves as a substructure for the Composer Focus Front. When used together, they turn the Composer with Tilt Transformer, for use upon Micro Four Thirds or Sony α NEX cameras. This provides photographers with entrance to the limitless creativity offering by the Lensbaby Optic SwapTM system.

LEAN TRANSFORMER:

The Tilt Transformer allows photographers to fluidly tilt their Nikon mount lens up to twice as much as a customary tilt change lens, giving photographers unusual control over a distance as well as placement of the slice of focus through their sketch. The Tilt Transformer’s pivot round is based on the obvious pending design Lensbaby developed for a award winning Lensbaby Composer® beautiful effects camera lens. The front of a pivot ball has the Nikon mount, permitting photographers to mount Nikon mountain lenses.

Tilting a Nikon mount lens on a Tilt Transformer will place the cut of concentration in dissimilar orientations inside of a picture. Vertical, plane, as well as diagonal slices are possible depending upon a citation a lens is tilted. Objects in both a forehead as well as background can be in focus inside of that slice. For example, the photographer can concentration on one person tighten up in a left apportionment of a frame whilst additionally focusing upon someone standing most further away from the camera on a right side of a support. The capability to concentration upon several equipment during once (while blurring out a rest of a image) when any object is placed at a different distance from a camera, is typically probable only with traditional tilt-shift lenses or view cameras.

The distance of a cut of concentration is contingent on the aperture used. For e.g., f/1.4 will produce a very skinny slice of focus with abounding blur. F/22 will furnish a really wide slice of concentration with just during tiny bit of fuzz. Also, when tilting extremely and sharpened at a very wide open aperture similar to f/1.4 a slice of focus will appear even thinner than when sharpened at f/1.4 with minimal tilt.

Due to the extraordinary tilt available with the Tilt Transformer, photographers can furnish a some-more impassioned pointed slice of concentration than possible with customary tilt-shift lenses. For example, with the Tilt Transformer the photographer can focus upon an object really tighten to the camera in a impassioned lower left hand dilemma of a support whilst simultaneously focusing upon an intent in the impassioned upper right palm corner during forever.

Tilt Transformer product specs as well as features:
• Available immediately for Panasonic Lumix G Micro Series and Olympus PEN digital cameras, as well as in Q4 2010, for Sony α NEX cameras
• When used with the Nikon mountain lens, produces the slice of concentration by the picture
• Width of focus cut is contingent upon aperture – f/1.4 will furnish the very skinny cut of concentration with abounding blur, while f/22 will furnish the really far-reaching slice of concentration with just the tiny bit of fuzz. Extreme lean at a really splendid orifice will have that slice appear even thinner
• Tilts up to twice as distant as standard tilt-shift lenses creation it probable to grasp some-more impassioned blur descending off of the very thin cut of resourceful concentration, as compared to a common cut of focus breadth as well as concentration fall-off of a typical tilt-shift lens
• Built-in resource allows Nikon G lenses to duty properly during all apertures. Nikon G lenses do not have an orifice ring upon a lens itself. This resource allows a aperture to open as well as close by
manually rotating the lens.
• High quality metal pivot ball for well-spoken, liquid tilt • Easy hold, steel locking ring controls palliate of adjusting tilt
• All metal, pointing building a whole

Composer with Tilt Transformer:

The Lensbaby Composer is a primer concentration lens based upon a round and hollow configuration which delivers well-spoken resourceful focus as well as alternative beautiful photography looks with unparalleled ease. Photographers can simply lean a lens to the preferred point of view and afterwards concentration with the primer focusing ring. The Composer stays in a desired focussed position without requiring the locking mechanism.
The Composer with Tilt Transformer is concordant with a Lensbaby Optic Swap System* and ships with the Double Glass Optic commissioned. Additional optics can be substituted in and out, providing photographers with the far-reaching operation of creative goods together with: Single Glass, Plastic, Pinhole/Zone Plate, as well as Soft Focus.

Composer with Tilt Transformer specs and facilities:
• All of the Tilt Transformer Specs and Features, plus a following:
• Ships with a Double Glass Optic as well as visual adapter installed
• The photographer can shift the orifice using a included orifice disks from f/1.6 with no disk
installed to f/1.8, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/13, f/22
• Supports a Lensbaby Optic Swap System*, permitting photographers to barter out a Double Glass
Optic and swap in Single Glass, Plastic, Soft Focus, and Pinhole/Zone Plate
• Optical adapter reduces tangible focal length of on top of lenses to ~40mm (~80mm effective focal length) • Focus Type: Manual • Aperture Type: Interchangeable levitating aperture disks • Minimum Focus: about 12″ (30 cm) / Maximum Focus: Infinity (and over

*Includes the Composer Focus Front Optic Adapter that allows Lensbaby Double Glass, Single Glass, Plastic, Soft Focus and Pinhole/Zone Plate optics to focus to infinity when used with the Composer with Tilt Transformer. As Micro Four Thirds as well as Sony α NEX cameras do not have an inner counterpart, the lens is closer to the sensor than with SLR cameras, requiring this adapter. The Fisheye ocular is not compatible with a Composer with Tilt Transformer.

The Tilt Transformer and Composer with Tilt Transformer are accessible from select featured item print stores worldwide as well as from www.lensbaby.com, amazon.com, adorama.com and bhphotovideo.com. The Tilt Transformer retails for $250 MSRP. The Composer with Tilt Transformer retails for $350 MSRP. For more information hit PR Representative Jessica Darrican during [email protected]
About Lensbaby
Lensbaby is a Portland, Oregon formed manufacturer of award-winning Creative Effects SLR camera lenses. Lensbaby was launched in February 2004 by Craig Strong, the veteran photographer and a contriver of a law Lensbaby Creative Effects SLR lens system. Lensbaby sells to photographers all over the universe by the website, www.lensbaby.com, by job 877-536-7222 / 971-223-5662, during tradeshows, in leading print retailers and by a growing global network of general distributors.
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