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

[Bert Kuijer]

Hi Tom and John,
There is something they cal a "technical data sheet" on their site an can
be downloaded here:
http://microsites.lomography.com/petzval-lens/images/technical_download.pdf
Not much about the glass though...
Some other info here:
http://microsites.lomography.com/petzval-lens/technical_information/
Bert from Holland


2014/1/4 John Brewer <johnbrewerphotography at gmail.com>

> Hi Tom
>
> They did have the optical configuration on their Kickstarter page but it's
> been pulled....
>
> Happy new year list members
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 17 Dec 2013, at 05:19 pm, Tomas Sobota <tom at sobota.net> wrote:
> >
> > Christina,
> >
> > The actual maker of this lens is the Krasnogorsk factory near Moscow.
> They
> > were the builders of the Zorki and Zenith cameras among others, as well
> as
> > dozens of Russian lens designs. I bet that for these guys 1666 lenses, as
> > you say, is not such a large batch. They always had a problem with
> quality
> > control, but I guess that nobody will care too much about quality in
> these
> > Petzvals.
> >
> > I won't be buying one of these. On the one hand I already have three real
> > Petzvals for my large format cameras, and on the other hand I agree with
> > John Brewer in that this is a somewhat spurious business on the part of
> > Lomography. What is news for me is that these lenses are not Petzvals. Is
> > that so? Is there a diagram available somewhere to compare?
> >
> > Oh yes, and the bokeh of the images that these lenses make is dreadful.
> For
> > my taste, that is.
> >
>  > Tom
>