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Camera Lens News No. 5
Photokina 1998 |
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25t h Photokina—a new era has begun at Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division
More than 30 new lenses were on display at the Carl Zeiss booth at Photokina ’98. Also there was a picture gallery showing color enlargements of stunningly sharp and clear aerial photos taken by Bernhard Edmaier, a geologist living near Munich, Germany. Edmaier took these photos of Hawaiian volcanos, Icelandic glaciers, African deserts, and many other subjects from low flying aircraft with Carl Zeiss lenses on Hasselblad cameras.
Hasselblad was also the camera of choice in Carl Zeiss’ digital studio at Photokina, where everone could have his or her portrait taken with a Hasselblad 553 ELX camera and a Carnival 2020 digital back from Color Crisp.
The new Carl Zeiss optics in detail:
- Six medium-format lenses for the Contax 645 autofocus SLR system, which was also introduced at Photokina. All lenses for medium format Contax are T* multi-layer coated (Spec sheets are available from Carl Zeiss, see Publisher’s Imprint.),
- CFi (= Central shutter and Focal plane shutter, improved), a new generation of ten medium-format lenses for the Hasselblad SLR system, all T* multi-layer coated, with improved brilliance and color saturation and further extended lifetime of the central shutter (Spec sheets are available from Carl Zeiss, see Publisher’s Imprint. Information is also available from the Hasselblad dealer nearest you.),
- A high-performance super wideangle lens Carl Zeiss Biogon 4,5/38 T* with focusing helicoid and a special Compur shutter for ALPA of Switzerland (Information is available from ALPA, Capaul & Weber, phone: +41 1 383 92 22, fax: +41 1 382 01 80, e-mail: alpa@alpa.ch,
- Four new medium format lenses for the Rolleiflex 6000 SLR system, all HFT (= Rollei’s High Fidelity Transfer) multi-layer coated (Spec sheets are available from Carl Zeiss, see Publisher’s Imprint. Information is also available from Rollei Fototechnic GmbH, Abt. VMM, Salzdahlumer Str. 196, D–38126 Braunschweig, Germany. Contact: Ms. Ulrike Steven, phone: +49 (0) 531-68 00-387, fax: +49 (0) 531-68 00-257, e-mail: info@rollei.de
- ULTRA PRIME, a new generation of lenses for Arriflex motion picture cameras. The ULTRA PRIME lenses feature superior close-up performance (Motto: “Everything important in life
- happens close-up!”) and use the internal focusing method. They utilize Carl Zeiss’ new research findings about veiling glare suppression for improved color saturation and brilliance. Also they are all T* multi-layer coated and super-color-matched. (A brochure is available from ARRI Arnold & Richter, Munich, Germany. Phone: +49 (0) 89- 38 09 12 09, fax: +49 (0) 89-38 09 17 91.)
- A 1,7–2,2/3,3–33 zoom lens Vario-Sonnar for the new digital handycam PC-1 from Sony (A data sheet is available from Carl Zeiss, see Publisher’s Imprint.),
- The prototype of a Mutagon 0,6x T* wideangle attachment with professional grade performance for Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lenses in Sony digital camcorders. The Mutagon will become available through Sony.
- The complete optical system including the light engine for the LCD-projector DLX 650 from Davis A/S,
- The Carl Zeiss Telephoto Power Pack (TPP), a high-performance telephoto system for medium format photography on the unique Carl Zeiss Super-achromat performance level, including the Tele-Superachromat T* 2,8/300 plus Extender Apo-Mutar 1,7x (building a 4,5/500) plus rotatable drop-in polarizer.The optics cover 6 x 6 and the TPP fits the Hasselblad series 200 cameras per-fectly. Thanks to the unique auto-backfocusing design of the Contax AX , the TPP offers full autofocus capability for 35 mm SLR users, too.
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