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Kickstarting: An Elegant 19th-Century Lens That Syncs With Any Modern Camera

14/08/2013

Lomography wants to bring back the Petzval lens, a pioneering piece of hardware for commercial photography. Consider the darlings (...)
Lomography wants to bring back the Petzval lens, a pioneering piece of hardware for commercial photography. Consider the darlings of the market. Between the Lytro and its newer app, and the forthcoming Instagram (or just Instagram itself), we really put a lot of effort into making digital photographs look soft and analog. It’s easy to forget that those charming inaccuracies used to happen naturally, simply because of the early mechanics of photography. Analog photography, in its original form, began in 1839 when the Giroux Daguerrotype was introduced. The first commercial was a wooden box housed within a larger sliding wooden box that the photographer would adjust for focus. But these models had such limited aperture that it took 10 minutes of sunlight to get a properly exposed photograph. That might work for a still life or a landscape, but it compromised portrait photography, since virtually no one can sit perfectly still for that length of time.Read Full Story    
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