Review on 📷 Enhance Your Sony NEX Photography with the Lensbaby LB-V56BX Velvet 56" Lens by Alison Parker

Manual macro lens with large aperture and "glow" at large aperture. A typical macro lens (like the Laowa 56mm) will work up to F2.8, but it's a very sharp 2x lens. The softness and glow of the lenses appear at wider apertures, especially against dark or high-contrast backgrounds, and some find them attractive. As a budget macro lens, this is fine, but gives up to 0.5 magnification. It's sort of a combination of a 0.5x macro lens with a wide-angle lens (I really like that), a manual (moderate) macro lens with a large aperture, and a sharp one with a small aperture. I think (not proven) that most of its performance can be achieved with wide aperture lenses and extenders or macro filters, but it's not that practical as you typically lose infinity focus and stay in focus over a very limited range of distances. Interesting to test at large apertures, but at small apertures it becomes the usual sharp manual macro with a maximum magnification of up to 0.5 (with some limitations and with many parameters going up to 1.0 and more)