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"textContent": "Photographer, YouTube creator, and enthusiast of weird lenses, Mathieu Stern, adapted a century-old photographic lens for modern digital cinema in his newest video. The experiment pairs vintage glass with the Sony FX3 to test whether early optical designs can produce a more “organic” cinematic aesthetic than modern high-performance lenses.\n\n[Read More]",
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