Capturing Spring with the Lensbaby Sol 45

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Lensbaby Sol 45 - Bahai Temple II

This Spring Lensbaby reached out to me to demo their new lens, the Lensbaby Sol 45, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience! The lens is a 45mm fixed f/3.5 lens with built in tilt controls. All you have to do is twist the lens to unlock it and tilt it to adjust the focal plane for subtle to extreme tilt focus effects.

If you like having everything in sharp focus this is probably not the lens for you, but if you want a unique, vintage/lo-fi look, the Sol 45 is a very useful tool. I demoed the Canon EF mount version of the lens and adapted it to my Sony A7S II with a Fotodiox Canon to Sony ND throttle adapter.

Here’s a video review I made of the lens for Fotodiox.

Here’s some demo footage I shot with the lens.

And here are some of my favorite images I captured with it.

Lensbaby Sol 45 - Thai Elephant Statue

Lensbaby Sol 45 - View from Wisconsin Capital Building

Lensbaby Sol 45 - Bahai Temple II

Cold Water and Yellow Rails

Lensbaby Sol 45 - Spring Dusk Sky

Thanks to Lensbaby for allowing me to demo their lens and letting me keep it! I’ll definitely be using it to create unique looking photos and videos in the future.