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| |  | SLR Camera Lenses | Home » » » Lensbaby Optic Kit | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.7 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.26 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 A review from somebody who's actually used this product.Nov 17, 2009
By D. Giesler
I love my Lensbaby Composer. It gives a very artistic and unique look to any photo you take with it. While my Composer came with the double glass, which is very sharp in the sweet spot, the single glass, plastic, and pinhole/zone plate optics are just as fun to use. The single glass optic gives a softer look in the sweet spot, the type you'd find in an antique camera. The plastic optic is very fun, giving you the look/feel of an old toy camera. Very soft images, dreamy in a sense. The pinhole/zoneplate optic is very different. You have to have a tripod for this optic, being as the zoneplate is a fixed f/19 and the pinhole is fixed at f/177.
All of these optics will work with the Lensbaby Composer, Muse, and Control Freak. Also, the creative aperture kit will work with the Single glass and Plastic optic, in addition to the Double glass optic, but not the pinhole/zoneplate.
These are very easy to use with the lensbaby, have great instructions that come with them, and the Lensbaby community is very supportive and knowledgeable.
These cannot be used by themselves, they must be used in concert with a Lensbaby Composer, Muse, or Control Freak. If you need additional "technical details" (this is directed at the other reviewers), I suggest you actually use the internet and google Lensbaby, or just go to [...] and check out the kit from there and quit writing erroneous reviews, bringing down the star-rating of this phenomenal kit.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Good deal on 3 optics, but why no aperture disks?Aug 15, 2011
By Omega Man
"Technoanalyst"
I'm quite happy with the price for this set of optics and happy with the optics themselves. The only issue I really have is that for some reason this set does *not* come with aperture disks. Often this won't be a problem if you, for example, bought a Composer with a double glass optic (which should have come with all of the disks), but if you bought a Composer Pro with Sweet 35 that didn't come with any aperture disks then you're out of luck if you then buy this.
I contacted Lensbaby and they rectified the problem by sending me all the aperture disks I was missing, which is great service, but the "kit" should have come with them in the first place.
So I would give the optics in the kit 5 stars, but I give the "kit" itself 4 simply because it was missing something that was essential for making this a real kit rather than an "expansion bundle" that appears to assume that you already bought a double glass or something.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Be creativeFeb 10, 2010
By Keith R. Liscinsky
The set of lenses help to bring out the creative part of your photgraphy. There is a nice selection of images that you can do. Chances are you will prefer one over the others and use it more.
13 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Just a counter-ratingOct 21, 2008
By Lee Green
Some guy reviewed this product as a one-star without owning or using it, or even knowing what they do. I'm just submitting this ranking to bring the overall rating back to ground level.
By the way, knowing what these do, once I'm able to get these, I'm going to love using them.
5 of 37 found the following review helpful:
 Addendum to the lack of tech. detailsJan 12, 2009
By Dennis L. Bieber
"wulfraed"
While it doesn't seem to me to be that difficult to hit Google and find the description direct from Lensbaby LLC, I do have to agree that the technical details section is not only lacking in details, but downright erroneous.
So far as I know, this kit ONLY fits the Lensbaby Composer model -- it does not fit the three earlier incarnations (original flex-bellows uncoated lens with screw-in aperture holder, v2.0 flex-bellows coated lens with magnetic aperture holder, and the flex-bellows version with the snap-lock angle-holding legs). The Composer uses a solid shaft with ball-joint for angling (and probably has a helical focus system -- mine is due to arrive this week so I can't be definitive). As a result, the lens elements can be easily swapped out of the ball-joint/shaft.
Off-hand, I believe this kit consists of: single-element glass lens (the Composer comes with a double-element glass); a plastic lens; and a pin-hole camera fitting.
Correction: It appears the /newest/ flex-bellows model (now called the Muse) DOES accept this kit... But I stand by the statement with regards to the original, the 2.0, and the one with the legs being incompatible
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