Lomography has launched two new Petzval optics to complete a five-lens series. These are the Joseph Petzval Focus-Coupled Bokeh Control 27mm f/1.7 and 135mm f/2.5 Art Lenses.
If you’ve never heard of a Petzval lens before, they can be traced all the way back to 1840, when Slovak-Hungarian mathematician and physicist Joseph Petzval pioneered the design. The Petzval lens was first resurrected by Lomography back in the early 2010s and has since become rather trendy in Hollywood for its stylized appearance, producing spiraling shallow depths of field, extreme fall-off, and prominent vignetting.
