Lensbaby Double Glass II Optic announced

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Lensbaby, maker of creative lenses for your camera, has announced a new lens, the Lensbaby Double Glass II Optic. This is a new and improved version of the original Double Glass Optic from 2008.

The lens is designed for use in the Lensbaby Optic Swap system. So you need that before you can use it.

The Lensbaby Double Glass II Optic now has a built-in aperture (f/2.5 - f/22), a full metal housing and increased sharpness in the centre of the image.

It is still suitable for all current and older Lensbaby Optic Swap lens bodies, such as the Lensbaby Composer Pro II.

You can now fully adjust the bokeh to suit your own creative wishes using the 12-blade manually adjustable aperture and the unique drop-in magnetic 'aperture disc' system. You literally place the aperture you want to use into the lens by hand.

The Lensbaby Double Glass II Optic comes as standard with nine specially shaped drop-in magnetic aperture discs. A five-pointed star, a heart and seven more of the nine artistically designed and shaped drop-in apertures in total, developed by visual artists in the Lensbaby community.

These discs change the out-of-focus areas of the image and add a special structure to the shot. Photos taken with these drop-in apertures give points of light in the out-of-focus areas the shape of the aperture disc.

When shooting at the widest aperture of f/2.5, the Double Glass II Optic creates a tiny sharp point with blur that increases further away. This optic, combined with the specially shaped aperture discs, makes shots possible that cannot be achieved with any other lens.

At aperture f/4 or smaller, the Double Glass II Optic provides an increasingly larger 'sweet spot' of sharpness, allowing you to adjust it to your subject.

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