Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon F

The Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 Lens is a unique lens that offers several features and benefits for photographers looking to create artistic and expressive images. The lens has wide apertures, ranging from f/1.8 to f/16, which allows for a shallow depth of field and creates a soft and dreamy glowing effect in your images.

This lens is inspired by classic portrait lenses, offering a vintage and timeless look to your photographs. It is designed to enhance the mood and emotion of portraits. The Lensbaby Velvet 85mm features a manual focus design, allowing you to have precise control over the focus and depth of field in your images. This can be especially useful when creating intentional blur or selective focus effects.

With a working distance of 9.5" and a magnification ratio of 1:2, this lens allows you to capture close-up details with a beautiful softness and bokeh effect. The lens is equipped with a 12-blade diaphragm, which produces smooth and circular out-of-focus areas, resulting in pleasing bokeh in your images. The Velvet 85mm lens is compatible with F-mount cameras and is designed for full-frame FX format cameras. It can also be used with DX format cameras, providing an equivalent focal length of approximately 127.5mm1.

The Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 Lens is a versatile lens that offers a soft glowing effect, manual focus control, and a classic portrait look, allowing photographers to create unique and artistic images with a touch of vintage charm.

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The Nikon F-mount Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 has a unique short telephoto with distinct classic apeal and produces a mid-20th century-inspired image quality that is well-suited to portraiture.

Known for having a smooth, glowing aesthetic, this len's softness can be controlled by stopping down in order to produce a range of effects from soft to dreamy to sharper and crunchier at smaller apertures.

The 12-blade diaphragm also enchances the len's aesthetic, and helps to produce a smooth bokeh quality to suit shallow depth of field imagery. Additionally, the manual focus design affords a working distance of 9.5" with a maximum reproduction ratio of 1:2 to benefit working with close-up subjects.  

Short telephoto portrait-length lens is designed for FX-format Nikon F-mount DSLRs, however it can also be used with DX models where it provides a 127.5mm equivalent focal length.

Bright f/1.8 maximum aperture affords greater control over depth of field for working with shallow depth of field and selective focus techniques, and also benefits working in low-light conditions.