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Camera Lens News No. 3
Winter 1997/98
Carl Zeiss CB lenses for Hasselblad – Made in Germany?

During PMA (Photo Marketing Association) exhibition in New Orleans, Feb. 12–15, industry gossip had it that the the new lower priced CB lenses in the Hasselblad program were made somewhere in Asia. Otherwise lower prices for medium format lenses could not be imagined.

Fact is, as everybody knows who visited the Carl Zeiss camera lens production facility in Oberkochen, Germany, lately: ”The CB lenses are made by the dedicated workers of Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen along with the new Tele-Superachromat T* 5,6/350 CFE and all the CF lenses for Hasselblad.” Just as CLN reported in the no. 2 issue.
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