Usado Infinity Photo MikroMak 40mm PetzVex

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Nothing else is a MikroMak Prime Probe Lens
The Ultimate Micro/Macro Primes

Whether you are a naturalist, into special effects, expert in product and industrial Cine—or an artist capable of pulling off the shoot nobody thought possible, you still need a tool.  A sculptor goes nowhere without a chisel.  MikroMak Primes are incredible photo/cine tools too light and compact not to be found in their toolbox—your kit bag.  And too versatile not to be in your studio or lab.
These primes are so small, compact and light in weight that you won’t hesitate to take them with you.  Having even one is insurance against coming up against a challenge other same focal length primes can’t handle.  And, functioning as they do on a unique patent-pending design, they truly open up the other side of your creativity.

A New Approach

How often have you wished to get in close and pull back in the same take?  How often have the results of your imagination been frustrated by simply not having a lens that could fulfill your insight?
MikroMak Primes let you go forward from micro to macro, from wide field to infinity with amazing clarity and depth of focus.  So, if you need a macro, why not choose one designed primarily for macro and more?  That is MikroMak.
A MikroMak is unique because it is special and special because it is unique.  It works on Nelsonian™ design—on principles coming out of microscope tech.  It was E M Nelson (the so-called “British Abbe”) who determined that there is only one exact setting by which microscopes work most exactly, the eponymous Nelson Point.
And so—uniquely—each MikroMak is tuned to its “Nelson.”  Literally, each is “the best it can be.”

The Answer: Micro Tech

The application of micro tech infuses each MikroMak with its own mathematical magnification progression.  You choose the MikroMak best suited for the shoot by referring to the Instruction manual with its tables in the gray box below.  There, you will see the focal lengths of the five MikroMak Primes:  125mm, 90mm, 70mm, 50mm and 40mm.  Next, consider whether you need more magnification than field of view or the opposite.  Finally, consider the working distance at which that happens.  You have just utilized the fact that each MikroMak has its own specific operational curve and found the best one to use for the shoot.  It is as easy as that.

Convenient Use

Only using a MikroMak can be easier.  Once mounted on the camera of your choice, a slight turn of the knurled focus ring sets MikroMak to infinity.  Remarkably, almost everything except the very closest subjects will be in focus.  Then, even those can be focused upon to automatically activate the micro/macro functions.  You will then be able to focus continuously to whatever is the highest magnification at the closest working distance characteristic of the focal length chosen.  Go ahead and shoot!

Taking Advantage of Sensor Tech

MikroMak itself is the result of a new wave in lens and camera technology because it takes advantage of today’s sensor tech.  Consider that in the 1950’s color film generally was ISO 25.  Today, cameras worthy of MikroMak have near noiseless performance out to 25,000 ISO and even more.  This is a revolution initiated by the camera makers themselves—and MikroMak takes advantage of it.  You can set your ISO reasonably high.  Not only can you, you should because MikroMak is a maximized Nelson Point microscope; it’s sharpness even tends to counter slight residual noise.

And just like all other compound microscopes, it’s image is inverted.  (We have to mention this so as not to surprise you).  But any camera worthy of mounting a MikroMak almost invariably has a switch to flip the image as do accessory monitors of all kinds.  Flip—and you are set:  no problem.  MikroMak is as optically pure as the best laboratory microscope.  That also kept length and weight to a minimum.  It is anything but cumbersome and elongated.

And MikroMak is more accessorize-able than perhaps any other prime.  Although complete simply as-is, we still put a system behind it.
PetzVex™ Wide Field/ Macro Special Effects

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The 50mm and 40mm focal lengths have deliberate outer field falloff similar to the “look” of the Petzval Type,though formulated differently.  These special effects lenses otherwise function as the standard types.50mm P:  0-1.5x40mm P:  0-1.75x

The PetzVex™ LOOK!

The PetzVex lenses are a new way to expression, emulating some of the LOOK of the ancient Petzval type but in an optic out of modernity. A “Petzval” look with extreme depth of field and macro. In some ways the same and in other ways very different. In a word: unique—PetzVex.

Photos taken with PetzVex MikroMak lenses speak for themselves, showing central sharpness and deliberate progressive falloff to the outer image field with bokeh changes. A perfect triad, the artistic now blends into the creatively expressive by means of technical innovation….