Mint Camera has announced the Sharpa Lens, a newly-designed replacement optic for the Polaroid SX-70 that it says is “the sharpest lens ever made” for the instant camera.
The company says that its Sharpa lens solves what Mint calls a “fundamental limitation” with the optic that originally shipped with the SX-70. By making a brand new lens, Mint was able to use modern optical design technologies and produce a lens with seen layers of multi-coating that are also mold-free, haze-free, and scratch-free.
The original SX-70 lens was last produced in 1977 and, as a result, nearly all examples available today suffer from serious problems, Mint says. The first is the condition of the coatings, which Mint says are often deteriorated. The original anti-reflection…