LensBaby Muse PL Video Features
The new Muse PL features the Lensbaby Optic Swap System™ and is specially designed for use with PL mount motion image capture cameras. The new Muse PL will compliment Lensbaby’s existing motion picture camera lens, Lensbaby 3GPL, which will remain in Lensbaby’s product line.
LensBaby Muse PL Video
The new Muse PL features the Lensbaby Optic Swap System™ and is specially designed for use with PL mount motion image capture cameras. The new Muse PL will compliment Lensbaby’s existing motion picture camera lens, Lensbaby 3GPL, which will remain in Lensbaby’s product line. The Muse PL allows for highly creative focusing effects on any 16mm or 35mm PL mount movie camera, as well as several PL to video camera adapters such as the P+S Technik, Redrockmicro M2, Brevis35, Letus35, and SGpro.
Like its still camera counterparts, the Muse PL allows filmmakers to bring one part of their frame into sharp focus; a ‘Sweet Spot’ surrounded by gradually increasing blur. Photographers can move the
sweet spot of sharp focus anywhere in the photo by bending and compressing the flexible body of the Muse PL. The Muse PL creates the sweet spot of focus by using optics that feature a curved field of focus, giving cinematographers a unique way to control depth of field that is different from what is possible with existing tilt-shift lenses. Cinematographers can control the width and depth of field by changing the aperture disk installed in the lens.
“With the Muse PL, a cinematographer is able to control depth of field in novel ways, moving a circular area of sharp focus around the image with a spontaneous and very creative ‘focus-and-tilt-onthe-
fly’ technique,” said Craig Strong, Lensbaby president and co-founder.The Muse PL features the Lensbaby interchangeable Optic Swap System, and ships with the tack sharp Double Glass optic installed. For even greater creative freedom, additional optics are available as optional accessories. When a photographer or videographer wants to change the optic in their Lensbaby Muse, they simply pop the optic out and drop in a different optic using an Optic Swap Tool supplied with the new optic. Each optic has different features and image qualities, allowing photographers to choose the look that fits their creative style.
LensBaby Muse PL Video Specifications
• Flexible, tube based, manual compression focusing system with fluid and continuous tilt to move the sharp area of focus
• Interchangeable optics feature curved field of focus, giving you a unique way to control depth of field
• Images have one circular sharp area with surrounding areas dropping off into a beautiful blur
• Native PL mount for use with motion picture cameras
• Features the Lensbaby Optic Swap System which includes several different optics each of which provides a different image quality
• Ships with the Double Glass optic installed
• Plastic optic and Single Glass optic also available as accessories
• Focal Length: right around 50mm
• Focus Type: Manual Compression
• Aperture Type: Interchangeable levitating aperture disks
• Apertures: f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8
• Minimum Focus: about 18” (45.7cm) without expansion; about 9” (23cm) when collar is pushed away from the lens
• Maximum Focus: Infinity
Size: 2.75” w x 2” h
Weight: 3.6oz (7cm x 5cm / 102g)
Muse PL can be used on certain models of video cameras using several PL or SLR lens to video camera adapters such as the P+S Technik, Redrock M2, Brevis35, Letus35, and SGpro.
LensBaby Muse PL Video Box Contents
• 1 x LensBaby Muse PL Video
