Product Description

The Lensbaby Macro Kit will allow you to focus your Lensbaby from 2" to 13" and capture eye-popping details, Lensbaby style. The Lensbaby Macro Kit contains one +4 and one +10 macro lens and will fit either the Original Lensbaby or Lensbaby 2.0.

Product Details

• Brand: Lensbabies
• Model: AMACK
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Dimensions: 6.90" h x .50" w x 4.00" l, .25 pounds

Features

• + 10 lens allows focus from 3.5" to 5 inches away
• +4 lens allows focus from 6 inches to 13 inches
• Stack the +4 lens on top of the +10 lens to focus from 2 inches to 3 inches away
• Carrying pouch has a pocked for your Lensbaby aperture removal tool

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer Lensbabies has launched a set of macro lenses for use with its selective-focus SLR camera lenses, Lensbaby 2.0 and the Original Lensbaby. The macro set consists of one +4 and one +10 macro lens that can be mounted to the front of the Lensbaby lens, allowing photographers to focus in on minute details with eye popping Lensbaby effects.

Lensbaby 2.0 and the Original Lensbaby bring one area of a photo into sharp focus, with that 'sweet spot' surrounded by graduated blur. Photographers can fluidly move the sharp area around the photo by bending the flexible lens tubing. By mounting the +4 or +10 macro lenses (or both at the same time) to the front of the Lensbaby, photographers can use the selective focus effect at very close ranges.

Macro lenses can be attached to the selective-focus, flexible Lensbaby 2.0 and Original Lensbaby. (Click for larger image.)

A Lensbaby without a macro lens has a minimum focus of 16 inches. With the +4 lens attached the focus range is from 6 inches to 13 inches. With the +10 macro lens attached, the focus range is from 3.5 inches to 5 inches. With the +4 and the +10 stacked on each other and mounted to the front of a Lensbaby, focus range is 2 inches to 3 inches.

What's in the box
One +4 macro lens attachment, one +10 macro lens attachment, macro lens carrying case

Customer Reviews

Great special effect filter
I bought a Lensbaby for the great Holga-like effect, but found that this effect looks even better when applied to the macro world! Being able to get inches away from something and fill the frame is wonderful! If you're a fan of the Lensbaby, you'll fall in love with the macro capabilities.

Macro is such an obvious leap, as macro has always suffered from a shallow depth of field look unless you use incredibly specialized gear. People are used to seeing blur in macro photos. Putting this kit on a Lensbaby allows you to bring a lot of fun to the macro world and get a nice, controlled blur to your shots.

The really nice thing is you still keep your light sensitivity of your 50mm Lensbaby, meaning you get a macro lens that isn't as weak as a typical 100mm+ macro lens when it comes to lighting. Still, I use a flash with my Lensbaby macro shots, and everything comes out great.

If you want the most value out of this product, it would be best to use this with the Lensbaby 3, but it is still perfectly usable with the original Lensbaby, as that is the model I have.

I love my Lensbaby
I received the Lensbaby Composer as a birthday gift back in June and I was immediately hooked. The creative possibilities with this selective focus lens are incredible. I have since bought most of the accessories and alternative optics for the system to expand my repetoire. The entire system is so reasonably priced that it's hard not to buy all of the options. The macro kit does exactly what its name implies and allows you to get in tight on your subject while maintaining full control over the focus point within the frame. I have rated all of my other Lensbaby optics add ons a five but this one only a four because these are little bit more difficult to mount than the other add on optics. This is due to the fact that the threads on the Composer are recessed a bit and these are pretty thin optics and it can be challenging to maintain your grip. But once they are on they work very well. I highly recommend the Composer over the 3G or classic model as it is easier to lock in your effect. These add on optics then very easily just screw into the barrel end of the Lensbaby.

It actually works!
So I have heard many things about the lensbaby lenses and finally, I pulled the trigger, the price was right and I was looking for something more for my work. The lensbaby lenses are not you out of the box instant perfection kind of lens, you need to learn the feel and focus of these things, adjust your camera settings and lighting and get creative. The first time I put my lensbaby on, I was very discouraged, but after about an hour, I adjusted some settings and feel in love. You really can take some beautiful shots with this thing.

Two accessories which I purchased are the aperture kit, this is pretty sweet, if the lighting is right. each aperture
ring refracts and reflects light throughout your shot and cast a corresponding shape in your image. This can be a very cool treatment, however as digital photographer and a fan of photoshop, I am hesitant to lock myself into having some of my photos permanently tweaked. This is an effect I can easily re-create in post and really need to be in a creative mode when I slap on some of these treatments. That being said, 10 bucks, it's worth it, even just to mess around.

Next up, the lensbaby Macro filter set. Sweet, these 2 filters, 4x and 10x actually work, which may seem like nothign special but having wasted money in the past on useless macro filters, I was shocked to get this result, pleasantly surprised perhaps. Add the lenbaby price with this addition and you are still way under the cost of a dedicated macro lens. So worth the coin.

I am very happy with my lensbaby gear and I can honestly say it is making me a better photgrapher, manually having to focus, zooming with my feet, getting creative with lighting, these lenses make you work hard but the results are always something you can be proud of.