Lensbaby Spark

It’s called the Lensbaby Spark and it is a fascinating little lens. Weird yet cool lenses have been popping up a lot in the past few years. The Spark, a lens referred to as a gateway drug to Lensbaby gear, is one of those lenses. It is low cost, fascinatingly built, and so much fun to play with. After my first impressions with it I put it through its paces and, there much more to it, than meets the eye. Lenses like these can be brilliant if you put some time and effort into them. Let’s see what the Lensbaby spark is all about.

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The Lensbaby Spark 2.0 lens delivers the classic sweet spot of focus and crazy bokeh you expect from the brand, but its push-pull focus and flexible tube design limit what you're able to do with it.

The Lensbaby Spark 2.0 has an accordian-style bendable barrel -- and plenty of charm. But should it be in your camera bag?

The Lensbaby Spark 2.0 is an uber cheap, ultra creative tilt-shift lens that puts the fun back in photography

Lensbaby has announced the Spark 2.0. This new manual focus lens allows you to control the focus area by squeezing and tilting the lens, promising unique control over the look of your images.

A few weeks ago we got a pre-availability unit of the Lensbaby Spark. Guy Prives took it for a ride and came back with fantastic images and a detailed report. Final verdict: for the price, it rocks! While Guy is a Canon guy, the Spark is available both with Nikon or Canon mounts. Read the full post for the first online review of the lens.

Tilt-shift photography is all the rage. It's based on a type of lens that distorts perspective and focal plane to create atmospheric blur effects. Tilt-shift lenses are usually cray expensive, but Lensbaby makes a whole line of blur-tastic lenses for cheap. Their newest toy for a DSLR, the Spark, only costs $80. But…