Saturday, July 27, 2013

An Incredible 19th Century Lens Has Been Reengineered For DSLR

In 1840, Joseph Petzval invented an optical portrait lens, which for the rest of the century would be used to take loads of photos. Now, the retro-fanatics at Lomography have reengineered the lens from the ground up for today's Canon and Nikon cameras. And the photos are incredible.

What we're looking at is a complete reinvention of the Petzval lens to fit either Canon EF mount or Nikon F mount cameras—they'll work on both film SLR and DSLR cameras.

Read more here

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