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The IHOP Restaurant on Walden Avenue is closed Monday following an armed robbery that took place Sunday night. YNN's Kate McGowan was at the restaurant this morning and has more on the suspects involved.
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — One after another, customers pulled up to the IHOP along Walden Avenue in Cheektowaga. Many just making their usual stop for breakfast.
"It is our regular breakfast place," said a customer.
A sign was posted on the door, telling customers the restaurant chain was closed Monday. The restaurant was the scene of an armed robbery just hours earlier.
Cheektowaga police said around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, two males walked into IHOP, one armed with a handgun and the other with a knife and demanded money from the employees.
Police said the suspects threatened the six people inside, including two customers.
"They wanted to get into the safe so the employees and customers were herded into the back room or office near the safe," said Cheektowaga Police Captain, Jim Speyer. "One of the managers called the regional manager looking for the combination to the safe."
Captain Speyer said the regional manager called the police, while the victims locked themselves inside the office, without the suspects. When police arrived, they treated it like a hostage situation because they were unsure if the armed men were still inside.
"Called in SWAT and made contact with victims who were in the back office," said Speyer.
With police protection, all six made it out safely and SWAT was able to check the building for the suspects. Captain Speyer said he is unsure where the men are from or what direction they fled.
Customer, Margaret Jones said, "Very shocked, very shocked. It's such a nice place, I'm really surprised. I wouldn't imagine anything happening like that in this area, at all."
"Unfortunately I see more of this happening in the future since the economy is so bad," said a Buffalo resident.
IHOP's management said they are fully cooperating with the criminal investigation.
"Obviously this doesn't happen very often and we're just grateful that nobody was hurt," said IHOP senior manager, Craig Hoffman.
Police said if it wasn't for the swift actions of employees, the outcome may have been a lot different.
"I commend them. They did a very good job, separating themselves from the danger," the police captain said.
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
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Technical analysis involves studying the market activity of a given security or index—namely, its historical prices and volume. Unlike fundamental analysts, pure technicians are not concerned with "fair value." The tools of technical analysis are charts and technical indicators, which help to identify patterns that suggest future price movements.
Today there are dozens of programs on the market devoted to technical analysis and charting. Given all the choices you have, it is vital that you identify the type(s) of analysis you wish to perform as well as the securities and markets you wish to track and then purchase an appropriate program. It is also a good idea to familiarize yourself with the features and functionalities of a variety of packages to find the one that suits your needs.
This comparison of technical analysis and charting software covers programs catering to "mainstream" technical analysis, and, thus, our more typical reader. We have also divided this comparison into two parts. What you are reading here covers the key features to consider when shopping for technical analysis and charting software as well as an in-depth look at the top editor's picks in the area. For a more comprehensive look at the offerings available in this category, you can visit the Computerized Investing Web site for expanded coverage. All of the programs covered both here and in our expanded on-line article, at a minimum, handle stocks, offer charting capabilities, and have a library of technical indicators. You can use these programs for end-of-day analysis, while several also handle intraday analysis on either a real-time or delayed basis.
The comparison grid examines the key features you should expect to find with a full-featured charting and technical analysis platform. When available, we also offer a link to the company's respective Web sites for a listing of the technical indicators each program offers.
While our comments here are based on the latest versions of each program, it is always a good idea to verify features with the company before buying.
Reviews of our top-rated programs and the ratings table is presented.
With technical analysis, the bulk of data used in the analysis process is price and volume data. When looking at technical analysis software, you will find that some programs are tied to an "in-house" data service while others are compatible with one or more third-party data vendor. No matter the data source, be sure to budget for the potential additional cost of the data and don't be surprised if, over time, data costs eclipse the initial purchase price of the program.
The following are some of the typical data issues to consider when evaluating a technical analysis and charting program as well as seeking out a compatible data vendor.
End-of-Day Versus Intraday
Price and volume data, the key inputs of technical analysis, can be delivered to the end-user on either an end-of-day EOD or intraday basis. End-of-day data summarizes activity during the course of the trading day. In contrast, intraday data provides periodic updates throughout the trading day on either a real-time or a delayed basis. A premium is usually paid for this more timely data.
End-of-day analysis typically involves analyzing price and volume data over many years, perhaps decades or more. For this reason, most end-of-day technical analysis programs offer some type of historical price and volume database. If it's not offered by the program, you will need to seek out a compatible third-party source of historical data.
Ideally, even intraday programs offer a database to plot historical charts. Furthermore, a sufficient historical database is necessary for programs offering the functionality of system development and testing, which we will discuss later.
Supported Data Vendors
Technical analysis programs that use data from third-party providers require you to choose a data provider as well as a technical analysis and charting program.
The programs highlighted here vary in their support of data vendors. Some programs, such as TeleChart from Worden Brothers, rely on a sole data source. These "self-contained" packages do not allow users to shop around for a data provider.
Others give users a wide variety of compatible data vendors from which to choose. Investor/RT, for example, currently supports 12 different data providers. When there is a broader selection of data vendors, you have a better chance of finding one that meets your exact data needs—and budget. The comparison grid indicates which data vendors each program supports.
Some programs can also automatically collect price and volume data en masse from free sources, such as Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money. The implications for the end user are difficult to ignore. Whereas in the past it may have cost hundreds of dollars to establish a reasonable historical database from a fee-based data provider, you can now do this for free. However, Investor/RT is the only Editor's Choice program here that allows you to download historical end-of-day data from free data sources.
Data Exporting
Other types of programs can make use of historical price and volume data, including portfolio tracking and management software. This is where data exporting can save you time. If you hope to use your data in other programs, be sure to check the export formats of a technical analysis program and see whether you can import data into other programs you use.
Split, Dividend & Distribution Adjustments
Since the accuracy of charting and technical analysis is all predicated on the accuracy of the underlying price and volume data, it is important that the data you are using correctly reflect certain events or, at a minimum, allow you to easily adjust the data. Events include stock splits as well as dividend and distribution payments.
Programs that automatically adjust for stock splits will back-adjust any historical data you already have when a stock split occurs.
Some data providers and charting services also adjust historical stock and mutual fund data downward to reflect dividends and fund distributions. As a result, if you were to compare long-term charts for a dividend-paying stock or a mutual fund with large periodic distributions, the services that adjust downward will show chart levels going back several years that are lower than charts from the services that do not downward-adjust historical data. Such adjustments allow the user to more accurately track price performance over time.
All three of our top picks will automatically adjust data for splits, dividends, and distributions.
Chart analysis is a cornerstone of technical analysis. In fact, many technicians rely solely on what they see on a chart when attempting to predict future price movements.
Chart Types
There are several popular chart types used by technicians, and the programs here differ in the types of charts they offer.
The most common chart types are line and bar charts, and all of the programs in this comparison offer these two chart types. Line charts plot a single price point—usually the closing price—over time. In contrast, bar charts may show up to four data points for a given period—the open, high, low, and closing OHLC price for a day, week, month, etc.
Some other common charts you may run across include candlestick, equivolume, and point & figure. A proper discussion of these charts is beyond the scope of this article. However, you can find articles dealing with charting in the on-line Computerized Investing archive (www.computerizedinvesting.com).
Chart Templates
A chart template or layout allows you to specify the characteristics of a chart, such as the time period displayed, data periodicity (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), chart type, and any indicators or drawing tools you wish displayed. Programs that allow you to create custom templates generally allow you to save them for future use as well.
Templates are especially useful if you view multiple securities in the same manner. Instead of having to specify the chart characteristics for each security, all you need to do is specify the security and apply the template and the program does the rest.
A technical indicator is the mathematical manipulation of price and/or volume data, which is then typically displayed on a chart. The number and type of indicators built into a program are important factors to consider when selecting a technical analysis program. However, the raw number of indicators should not be the sole consideration—more is not necessarily better. Instead, the emphasis needs to be on ensuring that the program includes the indicators important to your analysis. Do not automatically write off a program just because its indicator library appears to be less robust than other programs.
When available, the comparison grid has a link to the Web sites of the various software companies listing the technical indicators each program offers.
Beyond making use of the predefined indicators that come "right out of the box," savvy technicians may follow technical indicators they have created themselves. Trade publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities regularly publish new indicators or variations on existing indicators. To make use of these, some of the more advanced programs allow you to create custom indicators. While the methodology differs across programs, in general you enter a formula into a spreadsheet-like module or use a "wizard" that walks you through the creation process.
In generic terms, screening is the method of taking a large universe of securities and narrowing it down to a more manageable number with similar characteristics. Within the context of technical screening, you are isolating securities that exhibit certain technical properties, such as price or volume behavior, moving average breakouts, or overbought or oversold conditions based on various indicators. Users are typically able to specify both the universe they wish to screen and the criteria they wish to use; the program will then generate a list of securities matching the criteria.
Another useful feature is the ability to receive alerts when certain "technical" events take place. These events can include meeting a specific value for a technical indicator, a technical system generating a buy or sell signal, or even violating a trendline. These alerts can take the form of on-screen pop-up windows, E-mail alerts, or messages sent to your cell phone or other hand-held device.
Many traders develop trading systems—sets of trading rules for when to buy, sell, short, or cover—based on technical indicators, and they use a technical analysis program to indicate automatically when these rules are triggered. The rules underlying a trading system can involve a single indicator or a collection of confirming indicators matched to specific market conditions.
Generally, you tend to find trading systems in the higher-end technical analysis packages. All of our top picks offer system trading; however, TeleChart's requires its StockFinder module and with Investor/RT you must purchase a premium module at an additional monthly cost. You are also able to modify these systems to match your own trading patterns and the securities you track. For the most advanced traders, there may also be a need to develop your own technical trading systems. Again, our top picks allow you to build systems from scratch, although Investor/RT and MetaStock do so in a more straightforward and intuitive manner than TeleChart.
When developing a new trading system, it is useful to test it using historical price and volume data to get an idea as to how it may perform going forward. To backtest a system, users specify a time period in the past, and the test provides an indication of how the trading system would have performed over that period.
It is important to implement assumptions that mimic the "real world" as closely as possible when you backtest a trading system. To add realism to a trading system, and provide more realistic performance statistics, programs allow users to account for such items as slippage (the amount by which a security price may move between the time you place an order and when it is actually filled) and broker commissions. Other items to consider are stop-loss methods, user-defined entry and exit points, and whether you wish to trade on long positions, short positions, or both.
The final element of system backtesting is optimization, where the program identifies the optimal variables that generate the highest gain or smallest loss for a trading system over the test period. For example, assume a basic system that buys when the price closes above the 50-day moving average and sells when the price closes below the 50-day moving average. With system optimization, the program will test a set of period lengths used in calculating the moving average to find the period that yields the best performance. When it comes to system optimization, Investor/RT and MetaStock again deliver this functionality, while TeleChart does not.
When analyzing the overall effectiveness of a system, it is useful to have access to system reports that provide such measures as rate of return, performance relative to buy-and-hold, maximum drawdown, and the profitability of each individual trade. The ability to rank and compare trading system performance is a valuable tool for finding out how different systems perform in different market conditions.
Technical analysis programs tend to be some of the more complicated software packages you will run across. Therefore, you want to make sure you have the resources to get to know the program.
The best way to learn a program is to roll up your sleeves and dive right in. However, the learning curves for these programs differ greatly. All three of our Editor's Choice programs offer in-depth user resources to help you get the most out of your investment. Through their respective Web sites or on-line help systems, each offer multi-media tutorials or guides that help you navigate through the programs.
The days of receiving printed manuals the size of a small-town phonebook are long gone. Today, when you run into trouble using a software package, you can usually refer to a help system within the program. If the program's help system isn't as helpful as you would like it to be, ideally there will be human support available through E-mail or telephone. All of the programs in this comparison offer, at a minimum, free E-mail support.
Some software companies have even built on-line user "communities" where you can go and interact with fellow users. At these forums, you can exchange ideas relating to trading and gain insight on how to get the most from your technical analysis package. Users of these three Editor's Choice programs will find discussion forums that will allow you to interact with other users to exchange ideas.
Investor/RT 10.0, from Linn Software, was released on November 16. The program is a unique among investment software in that it is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS. There are three versions of the program—Investor/RT (designed for real-time, intraday data), Investor/RT End-of-Day (designed for end-of-day data), and Investor/RT Market Profile. Within each of these versions are also two different editions—Standard and Professional. The Standard Edition offers charting, predefined technical indicators and drawing tools, and custom instruments. The Professional Edition offers added functionality through the Investor/RT user language called Real Time Language RTL. With RTL, users can perform custom scans, create custom indicators and trade signals, and build advanced indicators. The Market Profile product implements CME/CBOT-licensed Market Profile charting for futures trading. For more information on Market Profile charting, visit the Linn Software Web site at www.linnsoft.com/futures/tpo/index.htm. Lastly, you can also purchase Trading System Tools for any of the Professional Editions of Investor/RT, which allows you to develop, optimize, and implement technical trading systems either in real-time or on an end-of-day basis.
Investor/RT offers several popular chart types, including line, bar, candlestick, and point & figure—along with a library of over 110 technical indicators. In addition, it provides candlestick pattern recognition. Users may select from any of the over 40 predefined patterns, and the program will mark each pattern's occurrence on the display—even on an intraday basis. For any trader, it is important to track open positions; however, portfolio management and tracking capabilities in a trading and analysis package are considered added conveniences. Investor/RT can track long or short positions and gains and losses on stocks, mutual funds, futures, and equity/index options. The system also tracks transactions such as cash, dividends, commissions, and interest in order to calculate the annualized rate of return for each open position. However, the program does not offer year-end tax reporting.
Investor/RT supports 12 different data services providing data access via the Internet or satellite, including real-time futures data from Zen-Fire, Infinity Futures, and TransAct Futures. One excellent money-saving feature is Investor/RT's support of free historical quotes and fundamental data from Yahoo! Finance. Within Investor/RT, you will also find Yahoo's Stock Screener. With this screener, you can now choose from a variety of price, volume, and fundamental data points (13 in all). Once you run a screen, you have the option of importing the symbols of the passing companies into the Investor/RT database, at which point you can then use Yahoo! Finance to update historical data, fundamental data, and sector/industry classifications. You can also import ticker symbols from text documents.
Investor/RT Professional offers all of the functionality of Standard plus several features for more advanced technicians. Chief among these features is LinnSoft's Real Time Language RTL capabilities. With RTL, users can create custom indicators, trading systems (using the Trading System Tools add-on), and scans. Using the scan function, users are able to identify trading signals being generated. Scans can be based on technical indicators, fundamental data, and current or historical prices and can be run using tick or minute data as well as daily, weekly, and monthly data. Professional also supports additional indicators that are fully reliant on RTL.
The Trading System Tools add-on provides trading system development, testing, and optimization to Investor/RT. Users can organize trading signals into a set of trading rules and then backtest these rules over any desired time period. To analyze the results of backtesting, this version also offers detailed reports. The trading system optimization feature allows users to backtest ranges of values for the variables used in the trading system to find the optimal values and periodicity. With the trading system deployment module, users can set up "signal actions" that communicate trading orders when trading system rules are triggered. These orders can then be sent to simulated trading portfolios within Investor/RT or to real brokerage services. You can deploy trading systems as indicators on a chart with buy and sell signals. The Trading System Tools add-on costs $20 a month for Investor/RT End-of-Day users or $40 per month for Professional Edition users.
With version 10.0, Investor/RT offers direct-broker access for Rithmic, Zen-Fire and Interactive Brokers. This means you can now place orders within Investor/RT and the program will convey them directly to one of these brokerages. Furthermore, the program will automatically update your portfolio to account for the trades you make.
MetaStock, from Equis International—a Thomson Reuters company—has been a leader in the technical analysis software arena for over a quarter of a century.
MetaStock goes beyond the standard chart offerings of most charting platforms to offer nine different charting styles—line, bar, candlestick, equivolume, point & figure, Kagi, Renko, three-line break, and candlevolume. Chart windows are object-oriented, so you can perform any modifications to a chart or indicator on a chart by right-clicking on the appropriate area. The program's SmartCharts feature automatically saves your chart, along with the underlying specifications, so you do not have to recreate it the next time you open it—a valuable time-saving feature. You can also create chart templates that allow you to apply the same set of indicators and studies to different securities. You can even create a custom default template that is always used when you open a new chart.
MetaStock comes with over 350 technical indicators and line studies, 60 of which have been added to MetaStock 11. To help gauge the direction of the overall market, MetaStock offers over 90 "broad market indicators"—monetary indicators as well as momentum indicators for both the NYSE and NASDAQ. New in MetaStock 11 are 43 "adaptive indicators" with dynamic look-back functionality based on volatility, cycle, or a combination of both. This is in contrast to standard indicators, which use a fixed look-back period, such as a 50-day moving average.
If MetaStock's extensive indicators library isn't enough, you can also create your own indicators using the program's indicator builder. You have over 200 mathematical, statistical, and technical operators from which to choose. MetaStock's "programming language," while requiring some getting used to, is similar to the syntax used in Microsoft Excel to write formulas.
The Explorer function in MetaStock allows you to find, compare, filter, rank, search, and list multiple indicator values for multiple securities, including stocks, currencies, options, and futures. Users can view a list of securities that are generating buy or sell signals or that have broken through some predefined barrier dealing with price or an indicator. MetaStock also ships with a set of predefined scans, and you can create and save custom scans with the same programming language used to create custom indicators.
One useful educational tool for novices and experts alike is MetaStock's Expert Advisors. These advisors—there are more than 60—help you interpret technical analysis signals. Expert alerts provide indications of when current market conditions meet your criteria. There are also Expert highlights that color-code individual prices or significant chart patterns. You can use these expert systems to receive text, audio, or video alerts when certain conditions are met. Using the indicator builder, you can also create your own market advisors.
MetaStock ships with 50 trading systems and allows you to create your own trading systems, all of which can be backtested and optimized with the enhanced system tester. You can run one system on a single security, many systems on a single security, one system on many securities, or multiple systems against multiple securities. The program also offers features such as the ability to change and edit variables in testing—entry and exit points, commissions and slippage—to help create a more realistic picture of the trading scenario's results.
Despite offering such a powerful program, the developers of MetaStock have taken great pains to make sure the program is not overwhelming. The software is very user-friendly and offers a comprehensive on-board help system. In addition, the MetaStock and Equis Web sites offer user forums, free Webinars and video tutorials, and real-time on-line support chat.
Users can purchase MetaStock End-of-Day and a subscription to the Reuters DataLink data service for $59 a month ($565/year), or they can purchase the MetaStock software along with The Downloader (Equis' data downloading software) for $499 and go with a third-party data vendor such as Dial Data/Track Data. The Downloader automatically collects price updates, tests data for accuracy, checks for data errors, adjusts for stock splits, and reinvests mutual fund dividends. With the Downloader, you can also import TC2000 data for use with MetaStock.
Note that we were not able to install MetaStock on Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows 7 Ultimate. According to Equis support, they have yet to make the program fully compatible with those operating systems.
TeleChart from Worden Brothers is our final top pick among technical analysis and charting software. Compared to MetaStock and Investor/RT, it is easy to write off TC2007 when looking at its features. However, its combination of solid charting and technical analysis capabilities, ease-of-use, and unique features has made it one of the most popular end-of-day products on the market today.
TeleChart comes in end-of-day Gold and streaming real-time (Platinum) versions. Unlike MetaStock and Investor/RT, which support multiple data vendors or allow you to import data, TeleChart is only compatible with Worden data feeds. The Gold software and data package costs $30 per month and Platinum costs $90 a month. The database itself contains over 5,800 exchange-listed common stocks and nearly 850 exchange-traded funds ETFs. The program comes with dozens of predefined watchlists, including those for Hemscott industry groups and subgroups. Once you have selected a watchlist, you can have the program run a slideshow of the charts for the symbols in the watchlist. You can also create and save custom watchlists.
TeleChart offers the basic chart types—bar, candlestick, and line—along with 17 technical indicators, including some proprietary indicators that are exclusive to the program. If you wish to go beyond the provided indicators, you can program your own as a subscriber to the Gold Suite and Platinum versions of TeleChart. Unfortunately, as user-friendly as the rest of the program is, creating custom indicators is a bit clumsy, especially when compared to MetaStock.
One of the most interesting and useful features of the software is the Worden Notes, based upon the trading ideas of the Worden brothers—Don and Peter. Users can view the Wordens' charts to use and to learn from their indicator choices and analysis ideas. The notes are delivered throughout the trading day, as well as at the end of the day.
With TeleChart's Easyscan feature, you are able to locate symbols meeting custom search criteria. You can run scans against the entire Worden universe or against subsets—personal watchlists, industries, etc. Simultaneously, you can scan for long-term technical and fundamental conditions, as well as intraday conditions. The software comes with several predefined scans and users can save custom scans.
Performance | Documentation/ Tutorials | Ease of Use | Software Cost (AAII Discount) | Pros | Cons | ||||
Charting | Indicators/ Drawing Tools | Trading Systems | Screening/ Sorting | ||||||
Investor/RT End-of-Day Std | 5 | 5 | 3* | 5 | 4 | 4 | $20+/mo. | Extensive portfolio mgmt | –Trading Tools add-on only |
Investor/RT End-of-Day Pro | 5 | 5 | 3* | 5 | 4 | 4 | $30+/mo. | capabilities | offers sample trading systems |
Investor/RT Std | 5 | 5 | 3* | 5 | 4 | 4 | $40+/mo. | Highly regarded tech support | –Ability to create indicators |
Investor/RT Pro | 5 | 5 | 3* | 5 | 4 | 4 | $60+/mo. | Runs on both Windows & Mac | only in Pro |
www.linnsoft.com | add'l $20-$40/mo. for | Direct downloading from | |||||||
*with Trading System Tools | Trading System Tools | free historical data providers | |||||||
-20% | |||||||||
MetaStock End-of-Day | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | $499, software; | Free on-line classes & | –OptionScope for basic options |
www.metastock.com | $59+/mo. or $565/yr., | user groups | analysis only | ||||||
software & | Expert Advisor | –Was not able to install on | |||||||
end-of-day data | Nine chart types | Windows XP/7 system | |||||||
-10% | Data useable in numerous | ||||||||
programs | |||||||||
TeleChart 2007 | 3 | 4 | 3** | 4** | 5 | 4 | free, software; | Educational Worden Notes | –Fixed amount of data |
www.worden.com | $29.99/mo., Gold; | Data useable in numerous | –Platinum lacks NASDAQ | ||||||
**with StockFinder Suites | $89.99/mo., Platinum; | programs | Level II quotes | ||||||
$39.99/mo., Gold Suite; | Platinum on-line forums | –Lacking documentation for | |||||||
$99.99/mo., Platinum Suite | some features |
For advanced stock screening, backtesting and charting, you can upgrade your Gold or Platinum subscriptions to Gold Suite or Platinum Suite for $40 a month or $100 a month, respectively. StockFinder offers an expanded library of over 120 technical indicators. Platinum Suite subscribers also have access to Morningstar historical company fundamentals going back 14 years and Zacks historical earnings estimates and analyst ratings. Using StockFinder's RealCode, you can also create your own indicators. StockFinder's BackScanner allows you to backtest any indicator-based trading rule to see how it would have performed in the past. However, BackScanner does not offer optimizing capabilities. Lastly, Gold Suite and Platinum Suite subscribers can connect to their TD Ameritrade, optionsXpress, or Interactive Brokers account. While the StockFinder is a powerful addition to TeleChart, I found it to be less than intuitive as a first-time user. More than likely you should be prepared to spend time reviewing the free Webinars and other user resources to fully understand the functionality offered by StockFinder.
Beyond getting real-time data and charting capabilities, Platinum subscribers also get a number of features that Gold subscribers do not. Charts can be displayed in a variety of timeframes—tick; one-, five-, 10-, 15-, and 30-minute intervals; hourly; daily; weekly; monthly; quarterly; and yearly. Platinum service also offers access to over 40 real-time news and commentary outlets. One feature that is lacking is access to Level II quotes.
An interesting Platinum feature is that the software allows users to interact with each other. Platinum subscribers can join more than 100 public and private chat rooms or create their own to discuss trading strategies, gain insight from others, and exchange links, files, and charts with other members.
As TeleChart's capabilities have expanded, so too have the resources available to users to learn about them. There are hours of Webinars and video tutorials available on-line, with new events being offered all the time. There are also a variety of discussion forums where you can post questions regarding the program.
While we have covered our favorite programs for technical analysis and charting, we have only scratched the surface of the offerings available. To learn about other programs in the area of technical analysis and charting, click here.
Michael from California posted over 2 years ago:
MarketSmith is very good too!
Steve from Nevada posted over 2 years ago:
I recommend "OmniTrader Pro" by Nirvana Systems.
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Having seen some samples, I now fully understand why this design died out. In plain language, these images look like sh1t. Blurry (not soft) and the bokeh is HIDEOUS. People who buy this in a quest for something different...well, I think you'll regret it once the novelty wears off.
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Lomography offers pre-order package for Petzval 85mm F2.2 SLR lens
Lomography has announced that its Kickstarter-funded Petzval portrait lens is now available for pre-order in Canon and Nikon mounts. Based on a 19th century optical design, the 85mm F2.2 lens has a brass lens barrel, a 'gear rack' manual focusing mechanism using a knob on the side of the barrel, and a set of drop-in 'Waterhouse stops' to change the aperture. The pre-order package costs $599 from Lomography's website, with a current delivery estimate of May 2014.
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Press release:
Due To Huge Demand: Now Available for Pre-Order on a First Come, First Served Basis
- A Very Special Portrait Lens: The Petzval offers creative possibilities and produces fantastic photos like no other lens; get extreme sharpness, strong color saturation, artful vignetting and stunning swirly bokeh
- The Perfect PreOrder Package: After an extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign and just in time for the holidays, the Lomography x Zenit New Petzval Lens has been made available for pre‐order
- What's In The box? The Petzval Lens Preorder Package features all kinds of photographic treats for you to enjoy
The Lomography x Zenit New Petzval Lens is a reinvention of one of the first and greatest lenses of all time. Manufactured in Russia by Zenit, each New Petzval lens is crafted from brass and features high‐quality glass optics. The lens produces images with extreme sharpness, strong color saturation, artful vignetting and absolutely beautiful swirly bokeh. Because of the characteristic swirly bokeh effect that it produces, the New
Petzval Lens is perfect for portraits where you want your subject to be the center of attention. The lens is a reinvention of the legendary 19th century optical design of Joseph Petzval; with the New Petzval, for the
first time ever you can easily get the Petzval photographic look with Canon EF and Nikon F mount analogue and digital cameras.
In August 2013, supported by over 3000 generous backers, the Lomography Petzval Lens Kickstarter project became one of the most successful Kickstarter design projects ever. Now, due to incredibly high demand and just in time for the holidays, the New Petzval Lens has been made available for pre‐order in the Lomography Online Shop. The pre‐order lenses will be delivered on a first come, first served basis – Order now and secure your piece of photographic history!
It is currently estimated that pre‐order lenses will be delivered in May 2014. This is because of the extremely limited monthly production capabilities and the meticulous craftsmanship of the optical technicians who
manufacture the lenses at the Zenit factory in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
Geoffrey Berliner, Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation and the Center for Alternative Photography, has a collection of over 2000 Petzval Lenses. He commented on the fact that that Lomography have reinvented the lens: "The Petzval has got all kinds of optical qualities that you can either keep or avoid, and that's what makes it interesting. For us [the Penumbra Foundation] it was a very exciting thing to hear that Lomography had the insight and vision to look backwards in time to create a technology that would work perfectly with
the technology that exists today".
Watch the video interview with Geoffrey Berliner about the New Petzval Lens:
The New Petzval pre‐order Package features a whole range of treats to enjoy, including extra goodies which won't be available when the lens is offered for regular purchase…
- New Petzval Art Lens
- New Petzval Art Lens Book
- 7 Standard Aperture Plates
- 4 Experimental Aperture plates
- Petzval Lens Cleaning Cloth
- Petzval Lens Leather Pouch
- New Petzval Lens Brass Lens Cap
- Focal Length: 85mm
- Maximum Aperture: f/2.2
- Apertures: Waterhouse aperture set, up to F/16
- Image Circle: 44mm
- Field of View: 30 degrees
- Lens Mounting Profile: Canon EF and Nikon F
- Electronic Contacts: No
- Closest Focusing Distance: 1m
- Focussing Mechanism: Gear Rack Focusing
- Filter Thread: 58mm
Additional images
Sample Images
© Coco Alexander For Lomography | © Filip Zrnzevic For Lomography |
- New Petzval Lens Site: http://microsites.lomography.com/petzval‐lens/
- New Petzval Lens Video: http://vimeo.com/lomography/petzval
That's like saying you fully understand why the Wright Flyer died out. Some people would pay a lot of money to be able to play with a Wright Flyer. Some might buy the Lomography Petzval because they find the bokeh pleasing or might want to recreate a Mathew Brady / Civil War look. Some might buy it for the competitive novelty. In any case, if you don't like - don't buy it.
The Wright Flyer was a groundbreaking aircraft in its day. I sure as heck would not fly one.
Exactly my point. The Petzval lens was 22 times faster then the preceding technology. The only reason to fly a Wright Flyer is if you're interested in going out of your way to do so. Same with this lens. It isn't for general use.
I like what it does, BUT.
You can only take so many portraits with the subject bulls eyed in the center of the frame, before you look like a 'one trick pony' photographer.
Oh, maybe it has value if you used a high megapixel body and creatively cropped the subject from being in the center
that classical brass lens barrel makes those plastic muffin shape canons look so ugly .
I really like that idea, only some worries that they are made in Russia , place famous for inconsistency in QC.
it's opposite. any metal should be covered with a lacquer, rubber, or plastic coating (nashiji in Japanese, lacquer with a coarse surface). I love the finish of old Nikkor lenses like 85/1.4D. actually a lot of old scientific equipment were coated similarly.
exposed metal means cheap (which is good for that sake).
It looks awsome but to be honest the bokeh makes me queasy and anxious. I saw video of the bokah and it really doesn't work well in a moving image. To get a nice background bokah you really are going to have to think carefully. A pro portrait photographer would have to pack a regular lens along with this in case the background doesn't produce a pleasant bokah.
The color image on this page is the best I've seen but it's a very specific location.
More importantly, I've read in a review that it's design ensures that dust will get into your camera. I'd really rather not deal with that all the time.
Gotta side with you on that, the B&W sample image makes me feel carsick...
I can not believe that there are going to be poeple spending money for this scuttle
I've just been to the lomography website and it's only available in Canikon mounts :-( .
I'm a bit less keen now
the rear element of the lens is retracted into the lens thus it should be able to make an interchangeable mount which used to be popular a half century ago (Tamron T-mount).
I agree with you Yabokkie,
They might have saved some money too if they just made this lens available in T-Mount. Not to mention sold more to those that are not Canikon users.
They really shot themselves in the foot there.
I have no Nikon or Canon EF mount cameras at all :(
I am using it right now with a Fujifilm X-E2 with a Nikon F to X mount adapter. It's fun and handles very well on such a small camera. Feels similar to the Fujifilm 55-200 in weight and balance.
Oooh.. I want one! I'll probably need to wait 10 years until I can pick a battered one with a dented filter ring on ebay for £100, but the sample pics and videos are just gorgeous. In the meantime, I'll have to stick with my lensbaby composer which gives a very similar effect, and swirl that bokeh in photoshop. This lens appears to give the swirly bokeh right into the sweetspot though - anyone else notice that? Now where did I put that lottery ticket I bought last night..?..
I love the way a 19th century lens could be innovating digital photo/video-graphy, and its getting made in Russia.
I am convinced that by the end of 2014, there will be at least a dozen major Music Video's with scenes shot with this lens.
This kind of lens is not my cup of tea. But I can see that is has a unique look and a creative cinematographer could do some interesting things with it.
Hmmm ... Aperture is manually inserted? Should provide some interesting photo experiments. The star, hexagon and drop shape depicted ... wonder how they look and seems any style can be made or modded to fit the slot? I'd probably switch screen to a split style for the manual focus but in any case, seems intriguing.
If you want to see sort-of examples of the effects, check out Lensbaby photos using the manually replaceable aperture shapes/rings for their lenses.
Joseph Petzval (1807 - 1891) a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. Born in the town of Spišská Belá in Slovakia (the then Zipser Bela in the Kingdom of Hungary). The Petzval lens was developed in 1840 and became an ideal lens for portrait photography. It is highly intriguing that this simple concept of two doublet lenses with an aperture stop in between would get revived some 170 years later. I can't stop laughing at the audacity of the project managers!
And i cant stop laughing at your
Ack of sucess,something they have and you do not by the looks of things
s/a Pentax. just buy some limited lenses,
throw away the glass, and keep the barrel.
Why not just be modern and crapify your photos with a computer like everyone else?
Because anyone can do that, i mean just look at yourself, you are supposed to get the best image possible out of the camera with minimal editing.
no, the point is, why pay $700 for a lens that sticks you with the "effect" when you can shoot it without the effect in the camera and add whatever you want in post processing? Anyone who knows how to use photoshop can do this after the fact and you are not stuck in that one effect you shot it with. There are reasons that nobody is using soft focus filters and vignetting devices on the camera anymore...Oh yeah, except for lens-baby stuff, lol
Haters will be haters. Why can't you be happy that new and different products are being produced?
@jackzuckerphotography - fair point though it isn't a straight forward radial blur. I haven't thought of a way to duplicate the effect yet but the again I haven't thought about it much.
I think where this lens will find its niche is with videographers using dslrs.
Well, it's better to spend $600 on this lens than in beer... or is it the opposite?
I dont drink so it is a better spend on this lens, also the beer is gone after a few minutes, this lens remains
i'd pay money [not much] to watch someone drink $600 worth of beer, in a matter of minutes.. some extra hoppy craft beer or budweiser or PBR would be worth it..
puking mid guzzling is allowed, but it has to stay down for say.. 20 seconds to count =D
If I had all the money I spent on beer, I spend it all on beer!
Visually it's similar to this lens's bokeh.
Now, if those aperture plates would be programmable high resolution LDC-displays that would let the light through only in those areas you want.
Via Wi-Fi/Blutooth, you could alter the aperture shape on the fly, for example by you mobile phone or by some sort of Magic Lantern tweak.
Darn, I like it. All the negative comments, I don't get it. This is a resurrection of an authentic lens that takes images with that 19th century nostalgic 'look'.
It gives me wet collodion dreams.
It's because people are dicks. BTW, I think this thing is idiotic, and ridiculous-looking, too. So, um, that makes me...look, at least I am aware of it. That's the first step.
Sorry my english but doesnt ''collodion'' mean something like anal?
Like my man,you get wet anal dreams from....yeahhhh i get it....the Petzval looks so ummmm....nice mounted on the camera.
I'm with you Danny. The negative comments are likely to be by cellphone snappers who think that pin sized sensors and digital noise are something to do with photography.
Patrick - Google ''collodion'' - nothing to do with bottoms.
Whats ''Google''? Becouse if its not gold(colored) and if it doesnt look like water pipe im not touching it....
Jokes aside-im not sure if a pro photographer would buy these Lenses.
Just get a cheap CCTV lens. Spray some metal over it. And save a fortune. Sorted.
Congratulations, you proved your complete lack of knowledge about photography
By this time 2014, the bay will be flooded with this lens used.
- lens barrel scratched, oops! Sell!
- the finish got dull, and I am too lazy to polish it every time I take it out. Sell!
- the bokeh makes me dizzy. Can't stand it after a hundred or so pictures. Sell!
- it's not a beer mug? Sell!
No need to hurry into buying this lens.
These lens are not for hipsters... They are for golden kids. :-)
Seriously!? Who in the world with common sence would walk around with that?!
Made me a brass Nikon to match my new shiny brass lens...
It is not meant for walking around with, it is meant for professional portrait work in studio or pre planned shoot in a nice location, but then again i guess youd think a 300mm lens was made for indoor architecture shooting.
He's serious because he's a bitter old fart who somehow gets offended if everyone doesn't like the same things he does with nothing better to do than insult people.
If you want weird bokeh, you can just put a coarse diffraction grate in front of a longish lens and shoot with a wide aperture. I did this pic by poking holes in a piece of black foil with a pencil. I then mounted this in a spare filter ring and put it on the front of a 100mm f2.8 lens and shot wide open.
The in-focus parts of the image stay relatively sharp and the out of focus stuff breaks up into as many images as you have holes in the grate. In between, you get beaucoup bokeh.
Hi, Jim.
I just saw your sample, it looks great.
Thanks for the wonderful idea. I would very much like to see picture of your setup, even better, the video about it. If there is a link, please share it.
I actually shot this on film some time ago and just recently scanned the neg. I think I still have the original homemade grate around. I'll look for it tomorrow, or make a new one to show it to you.
That would be great, thanks! I will revisit this thread tomorrow. Looking forward to your post!
Jim, I really like that image, and a great idea. The bokeh of the brass lens makes me dizzy.
I just posted some pics and an explanation of this in the General Photo Techniques forum. Subject is "The DIY Bad Bokeh Filter."
Hehe, thanks for that little Idea! I immediately had to play with tin foil. Got some cool results :)
That's "rack and pinion" focuser, as in telescope-type focuser. Petzvals are interesting lenses. One of the most prolific comet hunters of the 20th century (William Bradfield of Australia) actually used a big one as the front element of a refractor telescope.
the most amazing thing with the lens is that time will put a beautiful green coating on it, similar to this one
I guess it's a generational thing but with all the history, Waterhouse stops, bright brass etc. this is more exiting than a cell phone that makes badly stitched panoramas.
My 4x5 Speed Grafix days are over along with rotary dial phones. Just put some old axel grease on your Zeiss and blow away the Lamography Lenses.
On their website they have black Canon and Nikon versions for an extra $100. They look quite good.
Looks much better in brass, finish matches the housing material used in the era it was invented.
When it comes to playing around with ancient manual lens, I'll stick with my Pentax-M Aashi bayonet mount f2.8 28 mm, or the F2 50mm with some extension tubes. Nothing better, and they fit on all the new cams..
Those are not ancient, if that is what you callancient then you must be 5.
> so Pentax is recommended
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I don't think I've ever clicked like on so many differing comments/opinions on a news article. I read the lot with a smile. Yes, this project is utterly mad. I hope they suck seeds.
I have a mug to drink beer like this lens. Very flashy, do not go with her to the street.
Intriguing to say the least. I may be so daring to say that I love the bokeh effects of this lens and the focal length is very useful. I cant wait to try it and look outrageous; that is part of the charm.
It seems like a great lens to experiment with. I just that rack focusing, antique cars a fun. But modern battery and electrical would be nice. The drop in F stops.The draw back there must be must be dust. Why gold color? Black or silver wound be better. I would just by a Canon or Nikon 85mm lens.
If these are the questions you're asking then you are completely missing the point of this lens.
I really hope it'll come in black eventually.
The drop-in apertures are ingenious. Especially the star one. Why didn't anyone else think of that?
Because you can simply place your star aperture in old filter ring and mount it in front of your lens with the same effect. And also, because Waterhouse slit is a perfect trap for dust and debris.
I believe black ones were offered in the initial Kickstarter campaign.
@DBraun. No --- you cannot do that. Or - at least the effect will be quite different. And - it only works on tele lenses of some designs.
I like your comment. I understand, that the effect will be less pronounced, but it is still going to be quite visible.
@Roland --- I have seen someone doing a similar thing putting a cat-eye like aperture on the back lens of the camera (the one in the mount, I mean). This should be similar to the effect of the strange apertures? (albeit dangerous...)
Wait, it's here: look at "bokelishousness" here: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/11/photo-geek-contest-2013-winners
If it looks different and if it acts different, and it doesn't look like the homogeneous black plastic lens' of every other manufacturer, then it's bad. Well, that's what I have got from reading most comments here. Dare to be different and you get hammered. What a dour bunch.
It's annoying, isn't it? Been to a parking lot lately? Every car, black, white or grey, no variation, no colour. People are more conformist and peer-driven now than in the 1950's!!
so the fact they did not change the design at all makes it a hipster thing despite it being invented before hipsters were born?
KariIceland, I hate to be the etymology police but much of what has informed many called "hipsters", aesthetically and philosophically, comes from a series of cultural groups, primarily concentrated in the 1950's through the 1980's: Mods, Beats, Glam, Punks, New Wavers, etc. So, yes, some "hipsters" are quite open to things existing before they were born.
We'll see how many Dpreview Challenges will be won with this lens...
I don't believe that the idea behind this lens is taking pictures with it.
Rather, it's an item for collectors; those who will hold onto it, in its brand new condition, for 20, 30, 40, or more years, then it goes to the big and famous auction house, where someone incredibly wealthy (from the 1% who get away with ...?) will bid on it by phone.
It probably will fetch 100 times its current price (by then)!
Who knows! These people are paying a $150 million for a painting (while millions are dying of hunger of course)!
I don't think it will be mass produced. They are taking orders now for a May 2014 production. That says something about the amount being ordered.
Besides, how many REAL photographers are willing to pay $600 for an 85mm Russian lens?
We'll wait and see if it will be offered on eBay as a used item in a couple of years from now :)
What is your criteria for "REAL" photographers? People that hang out on DPReview forums slagging others because of what gear they choose to create their images. Are those the REAL photographers?
Yeah because rich art collectors have never contributed to charities. And we all know the behavior of the art market, unlike conspicuous consumption of all kinds, is exclusively ugly in the face of poverty. Please.
What has where it is made have to do with it? Racist much? Also want to know great lenses? Helios 58mm helios 300mm f4.5
But then again I am sure you just are racist against russians because it seems American's keep thinking Russia is terrible while the USA is far beyond Russia's level.
I quite like many Russian products.
kariIceland: having a criticism for a nation's products, while a bit broad in generalization, is a fair bit short of a racist comment. For one reason, Russians do not constitute a separate race, nor do they share a singular ethnic association. Also, I find it ironically unfortunate that you falsely identified racism (which was, in fact, more generalization) shortly following that with a stereotype about Americans.
Additionally, let's say theoretically that a nation is wholly comprised of one ethnicity existing there and nowhere else; quite impossible but let's just entertain the notion for the sake of argument. That nation then might have one or more companies that make a product, such as cameras. For someone to have a negative opinion of the products produced by that company (or those companies) is also not racism, as it is disliking products of a company (companies). It represents no presumption of anything relating to the people of that country with respect to potential, propensity, etc.
If you had ever actually used a kiev camera, you wouldn't be praising russian craftsmanship.I have and their QC is like zero!
Actually I am not a racist, and I have quite a number of Russian friends here.
Also, my sister-in-law is Russian.
My first serious camera was Russian, a 35mm Kiev 4, well ..., not exactly Russian, but Soviet era.
All I meant was that photographers who intend to actually use the lens (like those who make their living as photographers) would rather pay their $600 for a "tried and tested" Canon or Nikon lens that is designed to work with their cameras, with all of nowadays built-in automation.
Buyers of this lens will most likely be collectors or people with some extra cash who will buy it for the fun of it.
So the comment was not meant to be offensive to Russians at all.
Yes that is why so many lust after carl zeiss manual focus lenses, because they want theyre trusted and "true" canon lenses (many of which deliver worse iq than this lens) and fyi: i trust my 300mm 4.5 zenit more than a 70-300mm canon.
I'm now curious!
How did you know "many of which deliver worse iq than this lens"?
I thought they said the production will be in May of next year, or did I miss something?
A least this does something different than your typical 85mm Canikons which all look so tediously similar.
I'd rather see a cool photo with ugly and interesting bokeh than be bored to death with the same old homogenous "creamy" bokeh that everyone on the forums seems to be enamored with.
Am I gonna buy one? Not likely, but I'll look forward to seeing how people use it.
I agree with you.
And there is another Kickstarter project with the lens like this Petzval.
It is for medium format.
Well, that's mature. I express an opinion on some inanimate object and you attack me personally. Well, at least you're consistent with your history of posts insulting people directly for no reason.
And you are consistent with throwing stuff at gear you know nothing about, and this comment was meant to show you how childish your comment was, but i guess you did not catch that either.
Omg it looks so funny mounted on the cameras. Is someone missing some water pippes? No ?Ok.
Couple of points on this subject :
first , as was said before , it is triumph for Kickstarter idea\concept as whole , well done ;
second : I believe , this lens will stay very limited in number , studio product , sort of Mamiya cameras - they are known to be out there , but no one ever saw one :) , the rest will go by with Canon/Nikon FF (and PS for special occasions) .
Also , I have feeling , that in very short time , all this brass will become even more "classic" , by catching rust stains all over it .
During the Kickstarter campaign, the lens was available for $300 which is the max I would pay for it, as it is cool but limited use. Now, if you subscribe to the Lomo newsletters you will see that nearly every week they discount something for up to 25% or even 30%, so it is good to subscribe to them.
Russian Helios 40-2 85mm F1.5 (Zeiss Biotar design) has been produced again for a while. It would make much more sense than this lens - similar bokeh but sharper and with normal aperture blades. Made at the same factory, BTW.
Costs $500 at Amazon and available in m42 and Nikon mounts.
One of the attractions of this lens is that it don't have normal aperture blades. You can get truly round apertures - or any form you want. Square? Slit? Oval?
Yes, I have googled that Helios 40-2 85 mm and the images taken with it.They are, actually, very similar by parameters.
Comes with a "Petzval Lens Cleaning Cloth." Really? It isn't approved for cleaning other types of lenses?
Overall, this is probably a fine and distinctive product. I don't know why it isn't a T mount or at least M42, because that would make it also work on Sony A-mount, etc. Perhaps the assumption is that users of Sony and other brand bodies are too smart to buy a product based only on marketing hype? ;-)
They should have at least photographed it on a Nikon Df - it might look a little less silly. Looks like a fun niche product for the lomography crowd.
Almost exactly the same size as the market for the Nikon Df... (ducks and runs)
"Exactly how large is the market of hipsters with FF DSLRs?"
I'm not sure, but it can't near as large as the number of fauxtographers with FF DSLRs.
So tired to poke at "hipsters". If what you mean is young photographers, I assure you that there are many very successful and talented ones focused on portraiture (that I've followed for years), particularly in eastern Europe. Suspecting that some might be potentially interested and quite capable of affording this lens. Keep throwing around disparaging terms, and I think the "hipsters" largely ignore them and continue to produce very respectable photography. Let's just say theoretically a good many of them prefer eclectic quotation of clothing styles and mid-century furnature in spaces adorned with vintage ceramic rabbits and taxidermy. What of it?
...well, maybe the technique chasers were in pursuit of other forms of bokeh - not this form; but questionably arbitrary in application nonetheless.
@b_craw. If they could make a high quality lens, maybe based on Samyang 85/1.4 or something with a waterstop aperture, I am surely interested. I would like to play around with other apertures.
But - swirly bokeh? Don't think so.
@b raw: My guess is that the people that toss the term "hipster" around don't actually know what it is they are referring to. They likely first heard the term on a photography forum and decided that hipsters were some evil enemy of the REAL photographers.
Meanwhile in the real world almost no hipsters use DSLRs or even carry cameras for that matter. The few that I do see with cameras usually have some esoteric film cameras.
In any case, the problem in the photography world isn't the hipsters. It's the middle-aged camera experts that troll the photography forums crying for the perfect lens and perfect camera so they can take pedestrian photos of a statuette in near darkness with perfect bokeh and zero distortion.
I would gladly buy this because it is an interesting design and if it is sharp enough why not? I am not a "hipster" And I hate the fact we call everything that looks different today a "hipster thing" A hipster does NOT walk around with a DSLR, he walks around with a film camera that he does NOT know how to OPERATE (unlike non hipsters who know how one works) And they also walk around with iphones.
I know more hipsters that know how to operate a film camera than non-hipsters. That comment is ridiculous. What makes you think that ALL hipsters are so stupid that they have no idea how to operate a film camera.
I bet 99% of the "experts" on this forum don't know how to operate a film camera either.
kariIceland: I assume you are kidding when you claim that a defining characteristic of a hipster is that they do not know how to operate a DSLR. I've had many students over the years (many who might be called hipsters) and their abilities to operate any format are quite unremarkably similar to most any group.
Being able to load the film and push a button does not count, gtting the proper exposure does.
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