Have done some experiments with different methods of rescanning. And, yeah, for straightforward, straight-on stuff weird lenses don’t do too much. But you can get a lot of nice effects, which I quite like, when shooting macro and at an angle. It can introduce soft artifacts that offset the hard grid of the raster.
Though I will say that different lenses (besides maybe a Lensbaby) are often less interesting than putting prisms or other filters/reflectors between lens and screen.
I don’t have any video posted anywhere, but here are a few still shots I took while “free-lensing” (basically just not attaching the lens to the camera, so you get a tilted focal plane, like a Lensbaby but much cheaper and with added light leaks).
