Some companies have taken to using Kickstarter as almost a default step in their product pipeline, and New York’s Lomography is one of them. The photography focused company has successfully ...

The lenses that we typically write about on Pop Photo are examples of cutting edge photo technology. They feature sophisticated image stabilization systems, lens coatings that prevent smudges, low ...

The Lomography New Petzval Lens is an updated take on a lens design from 1840; it's not designed like a modern lens, but its unique bokeh gives it a look that portrait photographers should pay ...

Lomography's Petzval lens clone will give your pictures a certain special something. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac A photo editor friend of mine will often say, “It’s getting harder and harder to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’re one of those for whom photography is as much about the journey as the destination, you’ll have a lot of ...

The Petzval lens, designed by a mathematician in 1840, was one of the first portrait lenses to change the art of photography because its design allowed enough light into the camera for photographs to ...

Bear with me for a moment: This may be just a tiny bit confusing. Lomography, a company best known for resurrecting cheap, toylike film cameras of the past, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to ...

The Lomography New Petzval 58 Bokeh Control lens is the second in a series based on an optical design from the 1840s. It adds a very modern twist—the ability to control just how extreme the swirled ...

A professor of mathematics at Vienna University, named Joseph Petzval, designed a lens that had a fast aperture of f/3.6. While this may not sound so exciting by today’s standards, Petzval created ...

In a modern photographic landscape where retro Instagram filters create “instant art,” one company has decided to up the ante and go way back — to 1840. Meet the Petzval, a lens originally invented in ...

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has given me a front row seat for the changeover from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, ...

The Lomography New Petzval Art Lens is not your typical new camera lens. It's a brass-barreled manual focus prime, with no electronic contacts, and aperture that's controlled by dropping a selection ...