


Review Summary
2020-12-03T05:19:30
The Burnside 35 is a great lens for all around photography. Not only do you get the various Lensbaby effects at wider apertures but you also have a great regular lens at smaller apertures. It's very versatile. It can be used for portraits, landscapes, street photography and anything else you care to shoot.
JAMES W.
2020-08-29T12:28:34
I'd been wanting this lens, but the manufacturer (Lensbaby) no longer offers it in a sony a-mount, so I was very pleased to find it here at a discount price. This lens isn't for everyone. It's manual focus only, and is a Petzval Lens, an old technology that makes photos with a retro look. It's brighter at cent an has a swirly bokeh around the edges. I love it's look, but others may not.
Lawrence R.
2019-09-15T17:08:02
This is really a terrific lens in so many ways. You can get almost macro close without an adapter. The light is wonderful. It performs well in low light.
LARRAINE F.
2019-04-03T14:08:01
Order was processed quickly and accurately. Lens works at all lower apertures. Have not tried to go above f5, otherwise you start to lose the desired bokeh effect.Would recommend for those who are adventurous.
GREGORY W.
2019-01-02T15:09:18
Fun lens to experiment with and try to be creative. I don’t find focusing difficult with AF Peaking on.
Joseph C.
2018-10-25T09:23:03
Bought this lens after researching it for a bit and I have to say that it’s as good as everyone says it is. The swirl looks great when I was able to amfix my focus. The only adjustment for me is the manual focus but that’s something I could deal with.
HOUAWA Y.
2018-04-10T08:34:58
I have two other Lensbabys (composer pro35 and Velvet56) I love them all - each are very different. The Burnside is a little more complex - not in the way it operates but it the creative expression it can give. I have only had it for a short time but it is fun, feisty so far I really like what it can do!
MARY H.
2018-03-21T08:34:42
I love the 35mm focal length and controllable vignette. I have taken this out on my 5D a few times now and am really enjoying the results.
carl s.
Burnside 35
Black
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Pentax K
Full frame
Manual
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6" (15.24cm)
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35mm
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Not Applicable
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f/16
f/2.8
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Multi-layer coating
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62mm
6 Elements / 4 Groups
6 blade internal aperture
8 blade secondary internal aperture for effect enhancement and vignette
2.75 x 2.75 x 2.63" (6.99 x 6.99 x 6.68cm)
13.2 oz (374.21g)
None
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Lensbaby Burnside 35
By LARRAINE F.
This is really a terrific lens in so many ways. You can get almost macro close without an adapter. The light is wonderful. It performs well in low light.
Great lens
By JAMES W.
The Burnside 35 is a great lens for all around photography. Not only do you get the various Lensbaby effects at wider apertures but you also have a great regular lens at smaller apertures. It's very versatile. It can be used for portraits, landscapes, street photography and anything else you care to shoot.
Burnside 35 is an entirely new kind of creative effects lens for full frame and crop sensor cameras. This 35mm f/2.8 lens lets you create images with a large, bright central area of sharp focus and amazing color rendition surrounded by subtle, swirling bokeh and vignette. Use Burnside 35's aperture ring to control the size of your focus area and amount of swirl - bright apertures will give you the most swirl and a smaller focus area, while darker apertures will give you a large focus area with less swirling bokeh.
Burnside 35 also features a secondary aperture set designed to enhance Burnside's optical effects. Adjust the bronze effect slider on the barrel of the lens to create additional balance and harmony between focus, bokeh and vignette. This effect enhancement slider serves to enhance the effects of the lens by adjusting the amount of vignette and degree of detail in the swirly bokeh. Wide open, the effect slider produces a softer swirling effect; darkening the slider brings out the detail in swirl and adds vignette to your images. The vignetting is more dramatic on full frame cameras than on crop sensor cameras.
Aperture controls much of Burnside 35's versatility. The aperture ring lets you dial in your desired amount of swirl, depth of field and size of focus area. Bright apertures create the most swirl and a smaller focus area, while darker apertures create a larger focus area with less swirling bokeh. The amount of swirl is also determined by your distance from your subject and the amount of contrast and texture in the background. Standing close to your subject with a highly textured background will produce the most swirling effect; a less textured background or more distance between you and your subject will result in less swirl.
The 35mm focal length makes this lens the ideal focal length to capture life - whatever surrounds you and grabs your eye - as it happens. Burnside 35 is a great lens for creating your own, unique vision of landscape and street photography, environmental portraits and more. This lens gives you the tools to lead your subject's eye to something specific in your composition that can get sometimes get lost in a wider field of view. Burnside 35 joins Lensbaby's lens lineup as an all-metal, non-tilting lens like their bestselling classic Velvet series of lenses.
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