Velvet 28
$384.96 $549.95 64
Get your glow on with Lensbaby’s versatile new 28mm f/2.5 lens for photo and video! Built with landscape, adventure, travel and urban photography in mind, Velvet 28 turns every hour of shooting into the magic hour. Capture the sharpest details beneath a layer of spectacular, velvety glow, or capture crisp images with little to no effect.
With Velvet 28, reativity meets clarity in a symphony of visual artistry. Unleash your photographic imagination with this unique and versatile lens that transcends the boundaries of traditional optics. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an enthusiastic hobbyist, the Lensbaby Velvet 28 is designed to elevate your photography to new heights.
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WHY VELVET 28?
“This is one of the most creatively versatile wide-angle lenses out there. From sweeping landscapes that are tack sharp when stopped down, to watercolor-like impressionistic images when wide open, and the close focus with macro capability, this lens never has to come off your camera when in comes to capturing the beauty around you.”
- RICO DEL SESTO
WHY VELVET 28?
"Velvet 28 is an absolutely fantastic lens if you love artistic and painterly effects! I loved the texture and the blur it created and it fits my style so well"
- NICOLE WANG
WHY VELVET 28?
"I really enjoyed shooting with the Velvet 28. I love that I am able to take a landscape shot and then turn around and take a macro photo because this lens is so versatile. And the bokeh you can get with this lens is beautiful!"
- KAELA ELLIOTT
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SPECS AND DETAILS
Focal Length: 28mm
Primary Effect: Soft & Velvety (Velvet 28 installed)
Optic Swap Compatible: No
Aperture Range: f/2.5 - 22
Minimum Focus Distance: 49mm (1.9in)
Maximum Focus Distance: Infinity
67mm filter threads
Focus type: Manual
Format Compatibility: 35mm Full Frame; APS-C; and 4/3rds Sensors
Camera Compatibility: SLR and MIL cameras
Diagonal Angle of View: Full Frame: 75.4°; APS-C (1.5x): 53.7°; 4/3rds: 42.3°
Diaphragm Blades: 12
Elements/Groups: 8 elements / 7 group
Coating: Broadband multi coated anti-reflective
WHY Velvet 28
“This is one of the most creatively versatile wide-angle lenses out there. From sweeping landscapes that are tack sharp when stopped down, to watercolor-like impressionistic images when wide open, and the close focus with macro capability, this lens never has to come off your camera when in comes to capturing the beauty around you.”
- RICO DEL SESTO
"Velvet 28 is an absolutely fantastic lens if you love artistic and painterly effects! I loved the texture and the blur it created and it fits my style so well"
- NICOLE WANG
"I really enjoyed shooting with the Velvet 28. I love that I am able to take a landscape shot and then turn around and take a macro photo because this lens is so versatile. And the bokeh you can get with this lens is beautiful!"
- KAELA ELLIOTT
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CuraçaoInto The Mystic
Apologies if anyone else has previously borrowed Van Morrison’s song title to set the scene for a Lensbaby Velvet review. No other three words seemed capable of rendering at once the transcendent meditation & lush sensuality that is the post-snap feast which the Lensbaby Velvet, the 28mm in my case, occasionally sets before the auteur of stasis, that specific, chosen, though still improbable instant which bears extended and repeated indulgences. Yes, only occasionally. If every nine months represents, as my persistently accomplishing son insists, a single percentage of one’s life to be utilized or wasted, I’m already sinking in the morass of half-past all, the worst part of which is discernibly failing eyesight. This physical degradation forces me to take measures with manual focus lenses that I would have once considered wasteful of my precious moments, but which I now understand are the necessary investment I must make to catch a fleet yet captivating spec of time from amidst the tumult of a life’s view on existence. Almost exclusively, I shoot fast and freehand despite knowing, in an absolute sense, that my eyes cannot be trusted to assure critical focus. Annually my ophthalmologist reassures me, speaking in her half-truths, that I’m not going blind, while nudging up the strength of my prescriptions. To fight the tendencies of my own slow senescence, I sway while shooting close subjects. This is my tip for Lensbaby users: frame your subject (or perhaps don’t if you’ll crop to frame in post in order to ensure your subject is in focus within some other frame you may intend), achieve your best focus, then do a little dance. Sway in and out ever so slowly, clicking off shots as you move the lens fore and aft. Take a dozen shots or more and expect one image to stand out if you’re fortunate, resonating and aligning with your own fallible memory of the moment you hoped to secure. Hope, and oftentimes disappointment, are integral to the task. A certain joy, a palpable success, intercedes often enough to be encouraging. Conversely, for images taken at greater, if not infinite, distances, I set the focus, snap the shot, roll the focus ring right until I know it’s wrong, then start snapping away at the subject, objectifying it more or less hazily, as I spin the ring back toward the lemniscate while shuttering. Simple stuff. The critical bit with these lenses, at least for folks with less-than-ideal eyes, is to take a boat load of pictures and hope one is worth salvaging; throw the rest overboard without remorse, indifferent to the screams ringing your inmost ear, “pick me, pick me!” My post production usually is, and in the case of the two example shots was, minimal. I live on a desert island surrounded by a warm sea, so life is routinely hazy. In turn, I click “Auto Haze Removal” and memory approves that improvement more often than not. Then I crop to adjust the framing, if necessary. That’s it. These images, their otherworld affirmation of this world, are created essentially in-camera and that is in large measure thanks to the Lensbaby lens. Both images below were shot wide open, one close (an okra bud), one far (an inlet within the Sheta Boka park on the island of Curacao), using the Silver Lensbaby Velvet 28 on a Canon 5D Mk IV. As a post-script, let me be explicit: I’m aware the Precise & Exact crowd (among whom clamor for clarity my wife and eldest daughter), disdaining the joys of fuzz, blur, indeterminate edges, opportunely invasive bokeh, and suchlike, may see in my appreciation for the Velvet lenses simply an affirmation of my own diminishing grasp upon the visual. No. Life is blur, the rushing river never trod twice. The properly Crisp may reveal a spare detail here or there, but Crisp is the abstraction whilst the pleasant mush of indeterminacy partakes of the experience of becoming within which we are enmeshed inextricably. Witnesses do appreciate Crisp photos in passing, but they linger, they linger, over the Velvet results, peering into their depths, seeking insights that barren precision never tempts withal. PPS - There is, on some other hand, the clear and distinct possibility that that Lensbaby fans are not, individually, auteurs of stasis, but fall under that title collectively, a hive mind of sorts: THE Auteur of Stasis, variably, mutantly, instantiated within the unfolding of some Whiteheadian process that we, having no other, term Reality. I’ve arrived late, but have no intent to leave until my time is spent. Life is pleasant, and more than a bit mystic, when appreciated through these lenses.
CanadaLensbaby Velvet 28
This lens is excellent! You can get as close as you want to your subject, superior macro capabilities. Creating different looks as you open and close the aperture gives you multitudes of options. When I shoot macro, I use all the apertures, then choose from a wide range of files depending upon the editing process I'm working in.
Velvet 28
$384.96 $549.95 64
Get your glow on with Lensbaby’s versatile new 28mm f/2.5 lens for photo and video! Built with landscape, adventure, travel and urban photography in mind, Velvet 28 turns every hour of shooting into the magic hour. Capture the sharpest details beneath a layer of spectacular, velvety glow, or capture crisp images with little to no effect.
With Velvet 28, reativity meets clarity in a symphony of visual artistry. Unleash your photographic imagination with this unique and versatile lens that transcends the boundaries of traditional optics. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an enthusiastic hobbyist, the Lensbaby Velvet 28 is designed to elevate your photography to new heights.
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