Hi Matthew, I was about 300m away from the trains. The clean look isn't everything. It's the tilted lens we used. Therefore all the lines are parallel, what makes the miniature look. I've seen on your homepage you are using after effects. So you should be able to do the same look also in post. Tilt the movie a bit and do a camera with DOF and you'll get the same look (almost).

Just read: Sony PMW-EX3 with LetusExtreme and Canon shift & tilt lens ( Canon TS-E45mm f/2.8 canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/ef/data/ts-e/ts_e45_28.html )

Hi, Harry
No, I don't have any exp. with lensbabies. As far as i know the glass is very cheap, so I never even tried one. The lens I used is a Canon TS-E45mm f/2.8 canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/ef/data/ts-e/ts_e45_28.html
I guess for the real look you need a lens with shift & tilt AND very good glass to get the stuff really sharp. As far as I have seen on the lensbabies website, the lens doesn't gives you a really sharp plane. It's always just a spot , that's real crisp. That's not what you need for the miniature look. What you need is a lens that gives you clear, crisp sharpness in one level (hard to explain i english) and compensates the central perspective.

Right now i'm in Japan and don't have my computer with me. Therefore I can't mail You a documentation about this. I will once I'm back.

On the other hand, the lensbabies looks cool and could be some fun to play with. I think I have seen even some videos here on vimeo. Generally the lensbabies are probably to slow for moving focus - which is no problem with the Canon.

Jepp, I think, this should work perfectly!

Yes, late august.