Lomography Daguerreotype Achromat Canon EF silver

Lomography Daguerreotype Achromat Canon EF silver

The Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens in velvety, onyx-black aluminum transports your shots into the 19th century. It fits seamlessly on your Canon

Inspired by the world's first lens, the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens takes you into a dreamy world where you can create painterly scenes, moving between razor-sharp detail and silky-smooth focus. This unique, handcrafted Art Lens offers you a creative playing field like no other lens. Compatible with mirrorless and SLR cameras, including Canon EF and Nikon F bodies and, in combination with an adapter, many more.

Lomography Art Lens family

The Lomography Art Lenses are equipped with the finest glass optics and ensure photos that surprise with rich colors and unique character. Our lenses are not only meticulously assembled by hand, but also feature state-of-the-art technology and multi-coated glass elements. They produce vibrant, strong and beautiful images and are compatible with a wide range of camera models. Each Lomography Art Lens holds a wide variety of creative possibilities, but no two are alike.

Let There be Light

With the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens, Lomography breathes new life into an aesthetic long thought lost. The lens is based on the historic and unique design of the Achromat, which was developed in 1835 and was responsible for the characteristic look of the first photographs in history.

Dazzling adventures

We have equipped the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens with newly developed optics that produce wonderfully soft focus at apertures below f/4 and razor-sharp results with deep contrasts from f/5.6. In addition to the classic Waterhouse lens hoods, Lomography has developed the Lumière and Aquarelle lens hoods for this lens. Lumière envelops your pictures in radiant, soft light - and creates delicate, dotted backgrounds that enrich the depth of field. Watercolor creates a strong and profound painterly effect - comparable to masterpieces of watercolor painting!

Inspired by a world first

In 1835, Charles Chevalier and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre made history - they gave the world practical photography. Daguerre combined a daguerreotype camera with the world's very first photographic lens, which was built by Charles Chevalier. The daguerreotype camera was used to take the very first photograph of a human being on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris in 1838

. Daguerre was a versatile man who, apart from inventing modern photography, was also behind the design of the first diorama. He was an accomplished painter and often worked as an extra at the Opéra de Paris. And to top it all off, he was also notorious for his tightrope walking skills and slick moves on the dance floor.

Charles-Louis Chevalier was more of a technophile. The son of a well-known French instrument maker and leading Parisian optician, he began tinkering with lenses as a teenager. After receiving an order from Daguerre for his daguerreotype camera, he produced the world's first optical lens. In 1840, Chevalier received the main prize of the Paris Société d'Encouragement for his discovery, and

the daguerreotype camera with the Chevalier lens was presented to the public on August 19, 1839. The French government declared the patent to be a gift, "freely accessible to the whole world". Since then, 1839 has been regarded as the birth year of photography.