Mercury 8
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:08PM
Greg Jones in California, California, Camera Gear, Camera Gear, Car, Car Show, Car Show, Cars, Enderle Plaza, Enderle Plaza, Lensbaby, Lensbaby, Mercury, Sweet 35, Sweet 35, Tustin, Tustin

Mercury 8, originally uploaded by big_pixel_pusher.

I recently purchased the Sweet 35 optic for my Lensbaby Composer. Rather than using aperture rings like other Lensbaby optics, it has a built-in f-stop adjustment. It's still manual focus as you would expect for a selective focus lens but it can render very sharp images if you accurately focus it on your subject. The depth of field changes depending on the setting used of course. I often will focus with the lens set for F2.6 and then stop it down to gain a larger focus sweet spot. The classic lines of this Mercury 8 seemed to work well with this new lens.

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