Lensbaby Velvet 28 for Nikon F ultrawide Canon EF 24-105mm f4L IS

Canon EF 24-105mm f4L IS lens

Downside: corners can get soft wide open

Includes hood (with a bit more wear than the lens itself

often used for portraits

The MB-23 uses 6 AA batteries (not included) or a rechargeable battery pack (also not included)

Lensbaby Velvet 28 for Nikon F ultrawide Canon EF 24-105mm f4L ISThe Lensbaby Velvet 28 is a 28mm f2. 5 lens that's probably among the closest things Lensbaby makes to a "good" lens. It's still a blurry mess wide open, of course, but that's part of the appeal; you can coax reasonably sharp images out of this, with the usual Lensbaby edge softness, past about f5. 6. Not your average everyday lens, but there's good pictorial potential here for folks who like soft focus.