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Lomography brings back the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 lens with new silver and black paint jobs

May 25, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Lomography’s Art Lens series has grown with the addition of the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 lens in both Onyx Black and Silver Graphite finishes. The lens was first launched by Lomography back in 2016 via Kickstarter and now it’s a regular fixture in the lineup for a price of just $299. It’s their take on the historic lens that came at the creation of practical photography in 1938 with the combination of the Chevalier Achromat Lens attached to a Daguerreotype camera.

The lens is said to have a “series of beautiful aberrations” that “bathed images in an alluring veil of light” creating glazy, soft images at wide apertures. Lomography’s original release of this lens helped to revive the lost aesthetic. At a focal length of 64mm, the lens goes from silky soft-focus images wide open at f/2.9 to razor-sharp from f/5.6 onwards.

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Lomography unveils Daguerreotype-inspired Achromat lens for modern-day DSLRs

Apr 6, 2016 by Gannon Burgett 1 Comment
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Lomography is at it again with Kickstarter. This time, they’re reviving the world’s first photographic optic lens from 1839, the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens.

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