Lensbaby announces a new array of mountable lens designed for use with PL mount motion image capture cameras. The new Muse PL will compliment Lensbaby’s existing motion picture camera lens, Lensbaby 3GPL, which will remain in Lensbaby’s product line.

The Muse PL allows for highly creative focusing effects on any 16mm or 35mm PL mount movie camera, as well as several PL to video camera adapters such as the P+S Technik, Redrockmicro M2, Brevis35, Letus35, and SGpro.

“With the Muse PL, a cinematographer is able to control depth of field in novel ways, moving a circular area of sharp focus around the image with a spontaneous and very creative ‘focus-and-tilt-on-the-fly’ technique,” said Craig Strong, Lensbaby president and co-founder.

Specs:

• Retail Price: $300
• Flexible, tube based, manual compression focusing system with fluid and continuous tilt to move the sharp area of focus
• Interchangeable optics feature a curved field of focus, giving cinematographers a unique way to control depth of field
• Images have one circular sharp area with surrounding areas dropping off into a beautiful blur
• Native PL mount for use with motion picture cameras
• Great for a fast and loose shooting style
• Features the Lensbaby Optic Swap System, allowing users to change to several different optics each of which provides a different image quality
• Ships with the Double Glass optic installed
• Plastic Optic and Single Glass optic also available
• Focal Length: right around 50mm
• Focus Type: Manual Compression
• Aperture Type: Interchangeable levitating aperture disks
• Aperture: f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8
• Minimum Focus: about 18″ (45.7cm) without expansion; about 9″ (23cm) when collar is pushed away from the lens
• Maximum Focus: Infinity
• Size: 2.75″ w x 2″ h
• Weight: 3.6oz (7cm x 5cm / 102g)

(Source) Press

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