The Petzval portrait lens was invented in 1840 by Joseph Petzval. This innovative design allowed much faster apertures than previous lenses, and significantly cut down the exposure times needed for taking pictures. A new version of the original Petzval design to fit Nikon and Canon cameras has recently been re-manufactured as part of a Lomography Kickstarter project.  I will be writing a full blog post on this lens on a Nikon camera in a later post, but for now I couldn’t resist the temptation to mount the lens on a Fuji X camera using a Nikon to Fuji X adapter…..

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Fuji X-E2 Sample Images Tom Grill