Lensbaby blog

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Lensbaby blogMakersSummer Image Contest Winners Summer Photo Contest This summer, photographers from around the world picked up their Lensbaby lenses and creative tools and showed us what extraordinary looks like through their eyes.

10.02

Lensbaby blogMakersTwist 28: Light, Powerful, and Fun! I love all my Lensbabies, but if you look at my Instagram posts, you will see many photos taken with the Sweet 22, a pancake lens.

03.25

Lensbaby blogMakersWhy I Want to Twist With the 28 Wide-angle lenses have always been a favorite of mine - and for a good reason.They're perfect for storytelling, pulling viewers right into the scene, inviting them to step closer and feel the emotion…

03.24

Lensbaby blogMakersIntroducing Twist 28 for Mirrorless Cameras Hello Lensbaby Family, I have been sitting on this announcement for a while now and honestly, I am a little emotional about it. Not in a "corporate launch day" kind of way.

02.26

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo