Imaging recource: Lomography pays homage to Daguerre and Chevalier with Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens

    It seems to be the week for interesting lenses. No sooner have we told you about the affordable, Petzval-esque Lensbaby Twist 60 than we stumbled upon another very cool optic. This time around, it's a resurrection -- in spirit, at least -- of one of the first photographic lenses, created in 1839 by Charles Chevalier for Louis Daguerre's eponymous Daguerreotype apparatus. (It's actually being billed by Lomography as a reinvention of the "world's first photographic optic lens", but single-element photographic lenses go back...
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