Spark 2.0

Super fun lens!

I have had a lot of fun shooting with this. It kind of makes everything look cool which feels like "cheating" but is not. Just taking a walk around my neighborhood, I was able to find dozens of interesting shots that I might not have thought to take with a normal lens. One limitation that I noticed is that this lens can't be used to take a long exposure slower than about 1/15 sec. because it is too hard to hold it perfectly still. It's too bad because the unique bokeh looks amazing in nighttime scenes. I was able to get some cool night shots but had to bump the ISO too far. I am now thinking about getting the Composer model (body only, since it appears that I can use it with the optic that came with the Spark) so I can take some tripod shots of night scenes with longer exposures.

Spark 2.0

It's real easy to use. Also lots of great reviews and examples on YouTube from owner users. The product arrived very quickly in New Zealand. I am very happy with the photographs I'm taking. And I have my eye on buying a few more lenses in the near future.

A Creative and Bizarre Lens

The Lensbaby Spark 2.0 lens is a versatile creative lens. It is manual focus, yet it doesn’t have a focus ring. Rather, you focus at some point in the image using the bellows that is built into the lens. While the design of lens provides a lot of flexability on selecting the range and depth of focus, the process of focusing is tricky. I found it to be too difficult to use. My hands were not sufficiently steady to control the focus point to the extent that I thought was important. I returned it for this reason. To replace it, I use the SOL 45mm lens, also from Lensbaby.