{"id":8389,"date":"2017-05-07T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2017-05-06T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T02:34:47","slug":"8389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/8389\/","title":{"rendered":"Lomography’s Neptune Convertible Art Lens System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Neptune Convertible Art Lens System by Lomography<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. I received an email a couple of days ago from Katherine Phipps of Lomography. The email announced the Kick Starter<\/a> program to create a convertible lens system called the Neptune Convertible Art Lens System<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may wonder about convertible lenses. They date back over a century and a half ago to the mid\u00a01800s when the design was used to give added focal lengths to the\u00a0recently invented daguerreotype cameras.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the last century the design was used to add a medium wide angle and a medium telephoto lens to a leaf shutter style better quality none interchangeable lens camera. In today’s market you can buy them to optically change the focal length of your smart phone’s camera.<\/p>\n

And of course Lomography’s Neptune System<\/a> fits any modern interchangeable lens camera from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, etc – even my NEX-6. The system even fits a film camera for those who still shoot film…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. I received an email a couple of days ago from Katherine Phipps of Lomography. The email announced the Kick Starter program to create a convertible lens system called the Neptune Convertible Art Lens System. You may wonder about convertible … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[413,1104,31,1105,401,572,1106,216,1035,208],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-canon","tag-convertible-lens","tag-daguerreotype","tag-kick-starter","tag-lens","tag-lomography","tag-neptune-convertible-lens-system","tag-nikon","tag-pentax","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}