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

[Tomas Sobota]

John, Bert

Thanks for the info. I have already seen most of it, and the nearest thing
similar to a diagram I could find is a generic Petzval drawing probably
taken from a book and which does not represent the real lens. They are
probably not giving this information away.

Everybody seems to be so excited about the "marvelous swirl effects" of the
Petzvals, but XIXth century photographers kept these effects rather out of
the image area. Seeing some of the images made with the Lomography New
Petzval, one understands why.

Happy New Year for you too.
Tom


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Bert Kuijer <gemeentehuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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