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lenz babies latest fun take on special effects lens wizardry combines 28 millimeter versions of its sweet velvet and twist lenses on a single mount for about the price of one 280 dollar lens the trio 28 twist lens surrounds the central area with curved bokeh the Velvets glowy and sweet renders increasing blur from the center out you rotate the intersection to choose a lens there are no other settings to fiddle with like all lens babies their manual focus only and in this case they're also a fixed F 3.5 aperture this one's only for mirrorless cameras on Micro Four Thirds the trio 28 lenses have about the equivalent angle of view of a 56 millimeter lens while aps-c sony e-mount and fuji film x mount versions deliver 42 millimeters as long as you're comfortable with manual focus the trio 28 is pretty easy to use there isn't a lot of an area of sharpness to play with when focusing it's only a few inches at most which makes it easy to miss but viewed at less than a hundred percent the sharp areas will still look sharp enough in comparison to the rest Suites the most useful since it has the most prominent combination of sharpness and blur Velvets effect is really visible but it's a little too soft and glowy for my taste and while I really like the twist effect it's only truly visible in certain situations when you've got a central subject in the foreground a very detailed background such as leaves and a big separation between the two you