Travelers
I had heard rumors years ago of the mythical Pentax 67 mount Lensbaby that the company once produced. So when I made the acquaintance of local photographer Keri Friedman recently and discovered she worked at Lensbaby I naturally had to ask her about this famed beast. She told me she thought she had one around the shop. A couple days later she e-mailed saying that they did indeed have one. So I took a trip down to Lensbaby in SE Portland, got a tour, got to chat with the founder Craig Strong and finally laid my hands on something that had been lingering at the edge of my radar for years.
This Lensbaby is the old 3G style, so it is the precursor to what would become the Control Freak. You cannot swap out the optics on it, and apertures are drop-in style, but being a 3G, as opposed to a 1.0 or 2.0, means you can lock the movements down. That is a big plus for me because I have not only wanted to do more medium format tilt/swing/shift experimentation, but to do it with long exposure and one cannot really hand-hold such a movement in place for 8 minute exposures... thought I have thought about trying it.
Being me, I couldn't just go out and keep it simple so I loaded my Pentax 67 with the Rollei Superpan 200 and shot most of the roll with an R72 infrared filter in place. So Lensbaby + infrared... the only thing I am missing at this point is the long exposure. But there are some technical challenges to getting filters on the front of this thing. Nothing I cannot work around though.
Pentax 67
Rollei Superpan 200
R72 Filter
Travelers
I had heard rumors years ago of the mythical Pentax 67 mount Lensbaby that the company once produced. So when I made the acquaintance of local photographer Keri Friedman recently and discovered she worked at Lensbaby I naturally had to ask her about this famed beast. She told me she thought she had one around the shop. A couple days later she e-mailed saying that they did indeed have one. So I took a trip down to Lensbaby in SE Portland, got a tour, got to chat with the founder Craig Strong and finally laid my hands on something that had been lingering at the edge of my radar for years.
This Lensbaby is the old 3G style, so it is the precursor to what would become the Control Freak. You cannot swap out the optics on it, and apertures are drop-in style, but being a 3G, as opposed to a 1.0 or 2.0, means you can lock the movements down. That is a big plus for me because I have not only wanted to do more medium format tilt/swing/shift experimentation, but to do it with long exposure and one cannot really hand-hold such a movement in place for 8 minute exposures... thought I have thought about trying it.
Being me, I couldn't just go out and keep it simple so I loaded my Pentax 67 with the Rollei Superpan 200 and shot most of the roll with an R72 infrared filter in place. So Lensbaby + infrared... the only thing I am missing at this point is the long exposure. But there are some technical challenges to getting filters on the front of this thing. Nothing I cannot work around though.
Pentax 67
Rollei Superpan 200
R72 Filter