Lomography's Petzval Lens: A Bold New Breakthrough from 1840

Bear with me for a moment: This may be just a tiny bit confusing. Lomography, a company best known for resurrecting cheap, toylike film cameras of the past, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to revive a 19th-century lens for use with 20th-century analog cameras and 21st-century digital ones. The lens in question is known as the Petzval, and it was invented in 1840 by Joseph Petzval, a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. Lomography's prototype modern Petzval looks a little les...