NEWS: Lomography Launches Kickstarter for the Nour Triplet F2.0 Bokeh Management Artwork Lens

Lomography is launching a Kickstarter at present for a brand new artistic portrait lens! The Nour Triplet F2.0 64mm Bokeh Management Artwork Lens, designed to provide photographers management over spherical aberrations, was impressed by Egyptian scientist Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, an early pioneer of recent optical ideas.

The lens is available in two variations, brass and black aluminium, and may be tailored to full-frame mirrorless Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Sony E mounts. It’s meant for artistic portraiture however could possibly be used for different purposes and genres as properly. Named after the Arabic title that means “mild” and “data”, the Nour Triplet lens permits for management over the spherical aberrations but in addition comes with optionally available aperture plates for shaping bokeh bubbles.

“Our new lens attracts inspiration from a rare scientist whom you’ve got in all probability by no means heard of, Hasan Ibn al-Haytham. Born in c. 965 CE and spending most of his life in Cairo, Egypt, he’s known as the daddy of recent optics. All through his life, he made important contributions to the ideas of sunshine and visible notion. Al-Haytham was the primary to notice the existence of spherical aberrations, which is the idea of our new Artwork Lens.” – Lomography

The marketing campaign begins at present and runs till November 3, 2023. Backing choices begin at 335 USD which is roughly 278 GBP. This may work out to be 25% financial savings for the early birds. Lomography goals to have the pledges delivered rapidly too, with an choice to ship earlier than December twenty fourth, 2023.

Spherical aberration occurs when the sunshine coming by the sting of the lens focuses nearer than the sunshine coming by the centre. The controls on Lomography’s Nour Triplet lens give customers three settings that alter how a lot the aberrations are corrected. Gentle (undercorrected) ends in a dreamy vibe, Basic (corrected) hits topic sharpness however maintains a blurred background, and Bubble (overcorrected) enhances the separation between topic and background, making the character of the bokeh stand out.

Aberrations have been studied by Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, often known as Alhazen. His influential e book, Kitāb al-manāẓir (“Optics”), has been influential within the examine of optics as we all know them at present. He contradicted the assumption that the eyes emanate mild themselves and said that quite, the eyes obtain mild mirrored from objects. In his writing, he studied all method of optic ideas and included legal guidelines of reflection and investigations into refraction, angles of incidence and deviation, and so on. (Sources: 1,2)

On the 64mm focal size and F2.0 max aperture, Lomography notes this lens is good for portraits. It has a helicoid focusing mechanism and silent stopless aperture management which works properly for videographers and filmmakers too. Based mostly on the Cooke Triplet lens design, the optics embrace 5 multi-coated glass parts in 3 teams. The closest focusing distance is 0.6m and the filter thread measures to 55mm.

An extra little bit of enjoyable is the bokeh form controls the Lomography has included as a part of the lens package deal. There are six choices, each shaping bokeh in several methods. These may be simply dropped into the rear of the lens and are optionally available to make use of.

Discover extra details about the marketing campaign on the Kickstarter, linked right here.

Article References:

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074172

2: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-al-Haytham