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Lomogon 2.5/32 Art Lens by Lomography – Now on Kickstarter

The Lomogon 2.5/32 Art Lens is a new crowdfunding campaign by Lomography. This fully manual lens offers a unique aperture ring with circular aperture cutouts, 32mm focal length and 0.4m minimal focusing distance. It covers full-frame sensors and will be available for a variety of cameras with both, a black aluminum and a brass body version. Lomogon 2.5/32 Art Lens. Source: Lomography Lomography manufacture a whole range of analogue cameras, premium art lenses, films, as well as accessories in the field of analogue, experimental and creative photography. The company has a tradition of launching new products in form of crowdfunding campaigns. Their 10th crowdfunding project, the Lomogon 2.5 32mm lens is now online on Kickstarter and it is doing very well. The funding goal has long been reached and there is still time (till March 22) to pledge and receive the product later. Lomogon 2.5/32 Art Lens The first thing that caught my eye in regards to this lens (apart from the color of the brass version) is the unique approach to the aperture ring. Changing the aperture on the Lomogon lens is possible only by rotating the offset wheel with its round cutouts, which kind of sticks out of the side of the lens. There are five cutouts within the ring, resulting in apertures of f/2.5, f/4, f/5.6, f/8 and f/11. Due to this design, every aperture that is set is perfectly round and therefore results in a unique circular bokeh. Thanks to the “click-and-stop” system it is easy...

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Published By: CineD - Thursday, 28 February, 2019

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