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The New Lomography Minitar LC-A 1 Art is a 32mm f2.8 Lens

Chris Gampat
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04/30/2015
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Last Updated on 04/30/2015 by Chris Gampat

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It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new big Lomography announcement, but today they’re unveiling their new 32mm f2.8 pancake lens with the Leica M mount in mind. This works so well because that means that it can easily be adapted onto other mirrorless cameras with no issues. From what Lomography is saying, this lens is essentially the same that’s on the LC-A + camera–except that the user has full manual control over the aperture (like the original LCA allowed) and you also have full focusing control. Lomo is keen to state that it is a rangefinder coupled lens.

The aperture goes down to f22 and focuses as close as a little under 3 feet just like most rangefinder lenses. Additionally, the lens has real glass elements and an aluminum body; which means it isn’t plastic fantastic.

The Lomography Minitar LC-A 1 Art 32mm f2.8 lens comes in silver and black, and is available for $349–which isn’t too shabby. More specs and sample images are after the jump.

  • Focal Length: 32mm
  • Aperture: f/2.8 – f/22
  • Lens Mount: Leica M-mount
  • M-mount Frame Line Triggering: 35/135
  • M-mount Rangefinder Coupling: Yes
  • Closest Focusing Distance: 0.8m
  • Filter Thread Measurement: M22.5×0.5
  • Construction: Multi-coated lens, 5 elements 4 groups
  • Premium Russian Glass Optics
  • ultra-compact pancake design
  • 4-step zone focusing system
  • Aluminium & Brass Body

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.