Name: Used Lensbaby Velvet 85 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon Z, Black E
Brand: Lensbaby
SKU: US1935778
Price: 339.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)

Lensbaby Velvet 85 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon Z, Black

Lensbaby Velvet 85

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Lensbaby Velvet 85 

Top Rated Gear: Used Lensbaby Velvet 85 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon Z, Black E MFR: LBV85NZ.

Velvet 85 is an 85mm f/1.8 SLR and Mirrorless camera lens with 1:2 macro capabilities. This lens brings the ethereal glow and crisp vintage look of Lensbaby's popular Velvet 56 lens to photographers clamoring for a portrait-friendly 85mm focal length. Velvet 85 builds on Velvet 56's ability to create buttery smooth skin tones with the added compression and beautiful bokeh found in high-quality 85mm lenses. Velvet 85 is a must-have for anyone looking to capture artistic soulful portraits.Shoot at bright apertures to create soft, dreamy images with underlying sharpness and detail or stop down to darker apertures to capture a classic, film-like quality in your portraits. Evoking the image style and construction quality of classic portrait lenses of the mid-20th century, Velvet 85 features the heft and smooth, dampened manual focus of these early lenses in an all-metal lens body.

Used Lensbaby Velvet 85 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon Z, Black E

It's a good alternative for macro lens due to its lower price compared to Nikkon's macro lenses.  For macro photography, it is fine.  However, I will not use it for portrait.  To me, it's like the pictures you take are sort of blurry, out of focus when you shoot with wide aperture.  I am much happier with quality, speed, and build of Nikkor 85mm 1.8 S.

OK for macro

Mighty Manual

Great Lens

I haven't had an opportunity to play with this yet, but I feel it will exactly fit my needs.

Lensbaby velvet.

I love the look of the photos that I get with this lens.  Price is reasonable for what you get.  Build quality seems good.

Love the look of the photos

Its a fun lens to learn to use. It will take a bit of time to get your creative juices going. but you will have fun in the process!

Love it

Something not tight in focus. Seems to drift! Concerning!

Quality

Embrace the glow!

Love my lens baby velvet and I must add watch Tutorials it's very helpful

Awesome lens

This is my first Lensbaby lens, and I love the 85mm focal length, the close-up ability and the RF mount.  Even though it is fully manual, I found it easy to use, in part, because I always use manual exposure and focusing when shooting macro images even with auto macro lenses.  At f/5.6 and smaller apertures, the lens functions like a regular lens and is super sharp.  As you stop down, the outer edges gets more blurred, and when fully opened, the entire image has that dreamy haze to it.  I prefer using it at f/2.8 or f/4 which gives you a sharp center and nice blurred outer edges. I've only had a chance to use it for shooting flowers and am looking forward to shooting portraits with this lens when things ease up pandemic-wise.

Great macro lens for shooting flowers

This is a Great lens! The artistic possibilities are endless. It is manually focused and needs some practice, but the resulting pictures are well worth the effort....love it! THe service from Adorama is excellent.

Artisitic possibilities

This lens works great on z6 &z7 cameras. Very sharp at f8 to f16. Great special effects at f4 to f1.8.

Great special effects lens and portrait lens

let me start by saying that it is a hard lens to use, but once you get used to setting everything manually  it opens a lot of possibilities.
if you are looking for ways to express your creativity, this is the lens for, you can create unique pictures just for your interpretation
the lens is solidly built and I definitely recommend this lens if you are patient and take the time to get used to it
I have the lens for two weeks and I love it and I am getting good pictures which I know will get better with time

Ed Bazzy

Very much impressed

Love it! There is a learning curve and am getting used to the manual focus but the results are beautiful.  After three sessions it now feels normal.  I'm planning on getting the Composer Pro with Sweet 50 to round out my options.

I almost returned the Lensbaby. It does take patience and commitment to understanding how to work the lens. But I am glad that I stuck with it, and I have beautiful images that I love. This lens is beautiful for macro and portraits.

Used Lensbaby Velvet 85 85mm f/1.8 Lens for Nikon Z, Black

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