Lensbaby Wide Angle Telephoto Kit | 
| Brand: Lensbabies
List Price: $89.95
Buy New: $88.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 2.5 x 2.5
MPN: Lensbaby Wide Angle Telephoto Kit
Model: Lensbaby Wide Angle Telephoto Kit
UPC: 188772000258
EAN: 0188772000258
ASIN: B000JK74HI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The Lensbaby 0.6X wide angle lens converts your Lensbaby s 50mm focal length to 30mm, while keeping the Sweet Spot the same size as a Lensbaby photo taken without a wide angle conversion lens. Other wide angle conversion lenses shrink the sweet spot. | | • | The Lensbaby 1.6x Telephoto lens converts your Lensbaby's 50mm focal length to 80mm | | • | The wide angle lens is the sharpest wide angle conversion lens we have tested with a Lensbaby. | | • | Both accessory lense are compatible with all Lensbaby lenses |
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Product Description
The Lensbaby Wide Angle/Telephoto Accessory Lens kit includes the Lensbaby 0.6X Wide Angle Conversion Lens and the Lensbaby 1.6X Telephoto Conversion Lens. The 0.6X changes your Lensbaby's effective focal length to 30mm while keeping the Sweet Spot the same size as a Lensbaby photo taken without a wide angle conversion lens. Other wide angle conversion lenses shrink the sweet spot. The 1.6X converts the Lensbaby to 80mm and slightly increases the size of the sweet spot. With the 0.6X Wide Angle lens, slight horizon line distortions (fish eye effect) sometimes occur when the sweet spot is pushed far off center.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Lensbaby Wide Angle/Telephoto Conversion Lens Kit works with all Lensbaby lenses--Lensbaby 3G, Lensbaby 2.0, and Original Lensbaby. Those lenses feature a 50mm fixed focal length, and the 0.6x wide angle lens converts it to a 30mm focal length, decreasing the size of the sweet spot of focus and increasing the amount of blur. While standard wide angle conversion lenses shrink the sweet spot when used with a Lensbaby, the 0.6x wide angle conversion lens has a unique optical design that widens the field of view while keeping the size of the sweet spot constant relative to the size of the photo. The 1.6x telephoto lens converts Lensbabies from a 50mm focal length to an 80mm focal length, slightly increasing the size of the sweet spot of focus. Both feature 37mm threads and screw into the front of the Lensbaby for ease of use.
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| Customer Reviews:
 not worth the money September 15, 2007
R. van Bakel (Maine, USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I consider the 3G lensbaby a decent value for money (a little on the high side pricewise, at three times the cost of the original, but a fun and occasionally useful lens to play around with nonetheless).
The wide-angle and tele extenders, on the other hand, are fairly useless, and way overpriced for what you get. The widest shot you can get isn't very wide at all, and tele doesn't bring your subject appreciably closer. I expected more -- not 12 mm or 200 mm, but not this marginal, optically compromised performance either.
 What a great addition August 7, 2007
Chuck Papageorgiou (Florida)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
Got the lensbaby as a gift for my Nikon D200 setup. What a blast! Once you get used to the manual changing of focus and experiment with the possibilities (digital is great..No film to waste), you can get really creative.
Lensbabies for Nikon D300 May 4, 2008
SeraAvion (Salmons Falls, NH, USA)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
What are you looking for? That is what you have to ask about this product. You pay for lenses. Don't ever think that you are going to get high quality with a low priced lens. There are just some things in life you have to pay for. That said, the LensBabies 3G for the Nikon mount is in a word,"Great", or maybe it is just,"Fun". It is not a "Nikon" lens and doesn't portend to be. Use it for all those fun and creative snaps as you see on their website. You will be like a kid with a hammer with this product; everything is a nail.
I have the new Nikon D300 and maybe I need to review this product as well, but we won't here. Let me just say that it is the prefect camera for the LensBabies with its LiveView capabilities. You will find that using this product in the manual mode is the best choice as it is easy to see if you have the correct exposure. Even popping up the flash works well in this mode. I haven't tried a separate flash yet, but I'm sure it won't take much to get it to work well. (Thank God for the digital after all those years of not knowing if you got the photo, especially at weddings.)
I also have the D80 Nikon and it works just as well on it as the D300, so I'm sure that any of the digital Nikons will work fine.
When you get the LensBabies 3G, it will help you to just go to their website and review how to use this product. Or you could just wait until you break it and then read the instructions. The hardest part of using the Lensbabies is getting in the habit of adjusting the focus and locking it down. It will take some getting use to and knowing where the controls are. It took me about a two dozen snaps before I instinctively "knew" the feel of the controls. You may get the jump on me with this, but as with anything new, learn it well before committing to a wedding or portrait session.
Or maybe you'll use it for "fun" projects. I certainly look forward to using it more. Ummmm, I wonder if I really should tell people about this new lens. Maybe I want to keep this info to myself. I'll have to think about that. I'll let you know.
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