Originally posted by wstruth I have been waiting for the new Lensbaby Sol to arrive. and I finally received it on Friday. Mine is the 22mm Sol for Micro 4/3's. I decided to forgo getting it for Pentax mount because I think it's too close in operation to the Sweet Optic 35 that I already have. It is more limited in function too, because it only has a fixed aperture of 3.5.
The lock mechanism it a nice feature to have though. It locks the lens immediately into a straight on projection. If any of you have used a Lensbaby you know what I mean because the composer base units have no means to lock the lens straight forward. Of course that is not what these lenses are about but especially when you are learning the lenses like I am it is useful for the in focus area to remain n the front while you experiment on how the aperture affects the out of focus areas.
The bokeh blades are also kind of cool. In day light without out highlights to create bokeh balls I think they will be pretty useful.
Any way my two shots for the 15th were made with the Lensbaby Sol. One thing I found is that I have to slow down to focus properly.
Looks interesting. The centering feature would be nice to have on the Composer. What I find most frustrating with that one is that you can move your focus point out of the frame, and it's not always easy to locate it again. I often resort to live view with focus peaking and pointing it at a flat surface to get the focus point where I want it, then frame and focus the image.