Lensbaby The Composer for Nikon F mount Digital SLR Cameras
Lensbaby The Composer for Nikon F mount Digital SLR Cameras
With the Composer, Lensbaby introduces a completely new lens, based on a ball and socket configuration that delivers smooth selective focus photography with unparalleled ease. Photographers simply tilt the lens to a desired angle and then focus with a manual focusing ring. The Composer stays in the desired bent position without requiring a locking mechanism and features the new Lensbaby Optic Swap System.
The Composer comes with the Double Glass Optic installed.
Lensbaby The Composer for Nikon F mount Digital SLR Cameras review
You know those times when every picture you take seems a little flat? Maybe nothing seems worth shooting. Everything’s been shot before. How can you possibly put your stamp on the scene around you?
Well, I’m not going to say that the Composer is the magic bullet. But it does help. It makes you see things in a new way, and that’s not something you get with every new lens. Household objects, flowers in your garden, the house next door . . . the Lensbaby makes them worth photographing again.
However . . . this is not really a walk-around, shoot everything lens. It is manual focus only. I’ve had mine for about a month, and the manual focus was easier than I thought it would be to get used to, but forget photographing babies or animals with this lens unless they are sleeping. You’ll take 100 photos and one will be in focus. Also, it gets a lot harder to tell when you’ve achieved focus when you move the sweet spot out of the center of the frame.
In addition, the Composer doesn’t deal with photos that have a large dynamic range very well. It’s easy to blow out your highlights if you’re not looking at your LCD screen after each shot. However, this wasn’t a problem I encountered that much, usually only during the middle of the day.
And buy the creative aperture kit! It makes night photography so much more fun when all your out of focus lights turn into hearts or stars or snowflakes. Definitely worth the extra ten dollars.
So, to sum up. This should be your second 50mm lens, not your first. But if you have all the regular lenses you need (we’ll call those your dinner lenses), don’t skip dessert. The Lensbaby Composer is worth it.
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