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

[eric nelson]

I'd be happy if I could just find the chemistry here to do wet plate!  :)


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:20 PM, John Brewer <
johnbrewerphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric
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> 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.
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> 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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