Lensbaby Mirrorless 16mm Pin Hole Pancake Lens For Leica L

The Lensbaby Mirrorless 16mm Pin Hole Pancake Lens for Leica L mount cameras offers a creative and artistic approach to photography. Specifically designed for Leica L mount cameras, ensuring seamless compatibility with Leica mirrorless camera systems. The lens incorporates anti-reflective coating on its optical glass elements to minimize reflections and improve image quality. The lens has a fixed focus, which simplifies the shooting process and encourages experimentation with pinhole and zone plate effects.

This lens combines zone plate, pinhole, and pinhole sieve elements, providing a variety of creative options for image capture. The lens is designed to be compatible with both full-frame and APS-C format cameras, offering versatility in camera pairing. The pinholes are precisely applied using photolithography techniques, ensuring accurate and consistent results.

With the Lensbaby Mirrorless 16mm Pin Hole Pancake Lens for Leica L, you can create unique and artistic images with pinhole and zone plate effects.

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Lensbaby Mirrorless 16mm Pin Hole Pancake Lens For Leica L

The Lensbaby Mirrorless 16mm Pin Hole Pancake Lens For Leica L, Lensbaby Obscura envelopes photographer and lens in an elegant dance between light and dark while bringing unique flare and image artifacts that aren’t possible to achieve in-camera with any standard camera lens. Photographers and creators who connect most with using an Obscura are those who embrace working with fewer choices and are willing to challenge themselves to redefine what it means to create photographic art. 

The Lensbaby Obscura comes in three versions. A 50mm Pinhole/Zone Plate/Pinhole Sieve optic - for our Optic Swap System, a standalone 50mm Pinhole/Zone Plate/ Pinhole Sieve, and a standalone 16mm Pinhole/Zone Plate/Pinhole Sieve pancake lens for mirrorless cameras.

• A pinhole is not, technically, a lens but is a clear, round hole in a thin piece of material, usually metal.
• A zone plate is a series of clear circular rings surrounding a center hole with each of the clear zones equaling the area of the pinhole in the center resulting in increasingly thinner zones as you move away from the center of the zone plate.
• A pinhole sieve is a field of pinholes with the center pinhole being the largest and increasingly smaller pinholes radiating away from the center.

The zone plate and pinhole sieve options produce more detail than the pinhole option. This underlying detail is surrounded by glow. Raising contrast and bumping up vibrance and/or saturation can bring a zone plate or pinhole sieve image to life.

The zone plate has a curved field of focus, creating a sweet spot while the pinhole and pinhole sieve have much similar resolving power at the corner of the image as they do in the center.