Lensbaby .42X Super Wide Angle Accessory Lens (Black)
by Lensbabies LLC
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Manufacturer: Lensbabies LLCModel: AWA42
Color: black
Product features:
- 0.42X wide-angle conversion lens attaches to Lensbaby Composer and Muse
- Ideal for panoramic photography
- Minimum focus distance: 2-3/4" from lens front
- Dimensions: 2 x 2 x 1.8 inches
- Optics from a 50mm focal length to a 21mm focal length
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Lensbaby .42X Super Wide Angle Accessory Lens (Black)
Customer Review: Indeed it is superwide, but image quality really suffers
Summary: 2 Stars
First, the good. I have to say the build quality of this super wide lens is actually superb! It feels much more solid and has hint of that Nikkor manual lens feel to it-- metal body, solid weight, smooth, well built. It is certainly much better built than the plastic/aluminum Lensbaby Composer.
Now the important part-- image quality. I really wanted to love using this lens. As you know the Lensbaby is wonderful on a full frame camera, with nice big sweet spot and amazing creamy bokeh for pleasing looking subject isolation. However, on a APS-C cropped sensor camera (Rebel, Canon 20D/30D/40D/50D, Nikon D60/70/80/90/200/300) it is just too much zoom as a general walk around lense. Thus I bought this Wide Angle accessory. The idea was to use 2 cameras while shooting my clients 1) a D300 + Lensbaby Composer + Super Wide and 2) a D700 plus a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8. That would have been the ultimate outdoor shoot setup, but it just didn't work out that way.
While the bokeh on a Lensbaby (without any filter) is creamy, soft, and just amazingly pleasing, I can't say the same when this super wide angle lens is on. With it, chromatic aberration is the worst I've seen even with the default double glass element in Lensbaby, without even trying. It is so noticeable that people who have no idea what chromatic aberration is, notice it. Instead of seeing creamy soft bokeh that I'm used to seeing, you'll see abrupt separation between white and blue/green tint, like very noticeable double-vision, which is very distracting and ugly. There is so much chromatic aberration that Lightroom 2.3 can only correct about 20% of it. For the reason that image quality is sub-par, I would have given this accessory 1 star, but I'm sure there are people who aren't bothered by this and may even find it artistic. And also, the built quality is superb. So I'm giving it 2 stars instead.
I really enjoy using the bare naked Lensbaby, but this accessory has got to be the most unusable I've ever bought from Lensbaby. The aperture kit and the macro kits are all nice. But this wide angle lens is a big disappointment. I'm defaulting back to the 0.6X wide angle which IMHO is much better.
Description of Lensbaby .42X Super Wide Angle Accessory Lens (Black)
Converts Lensbaby optics from a 50mm focal length to a 21mm focal length, while only slightly shrinking the Sweet Spot. Compatible with the Double Glass, Single Glass, Plastic, and Pinhole/Zone Plate optics as well as our legacy Lensbaby lenses 37mm threaded and screws onto the front of any Lensbaby for ease of use.Lenses
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