Lomography to recreate ancient Petzval camera lens for photographers
An old Petzval lens (left) is compared to the new Lomography Petzval lens (right). (Image: Lomography via Kickstarter) |
This image was taken with an old Petzval lens on a Canon 5D digital SLR. (Image: Lomography via Kickstarter)
Lomography's Kickstarter page states: "Zenit are master lens manufacturers and have the skill to build the Petzval lens for use with today’s SLR cameras. There are very few companies worldwide who still have enough knowledge of optics to complete a project such as this." Hmm . . . This Laser Focus World editor's opinion is that, while the first sentence in that quote is surely true, the second may have overreached: there are many highly-skilled optics outfits well-known to readers of Laser Focus World that no doubt have the optics knowledge to finish this project without overly burdening their engineers. See http://www.lomography.com/ and http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lomography/the-lomography-petzval-portrait-lens