[Alt-photo] Re: Lomography Resurrects the 19th Century Petzval Lens for Canon and Nikon SLRs

[John Brewer]

Hi Eric

Lots of people, mostly us wetplate guys, have issues with this. It isn't a Petzval lens, that is it doesn't have two air spaced elements at the back and two cemented elements at the front. Additionally Lomo used Kickstarter to raise money, which while it conforms to Kickstarters rules it's a bit immoral for a company of that size the raise money that way. 

The Lomo lens is faster than a lot of Petzval from the 19th century but you can take out baffles of the older lenses. 

A much better option IMHO is  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1162663202/the-petzvar-f-38-120-mm-medium-format-petzval-port/description

Just my tuppence worth. 

Best wishes

John

 

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