Camera Lens News
Camera Lens News No. 15
December 2001
The "Best Medium Format Lens in 2001"

13,309 readers of "Color Foto“ elected the Carl Zeiss Tele Superachromat T* 2,8/300 for Hasselblad the best lens in medium format photography in the year 2001. (A detailed article on the unique efforts Zeiss puts into making the Tele Superachromat T* 2,8/300 at the Zeiss Oberkochen factory recently appeared in Hasselblad's quarterly FORUM magazine, 3/2001 issue.)

"Color Foto" is one of the two big monthly German photo magazines with almost 100,000 copies in print. "Color Foto" conducts an annual contest where this year, readers were able to choose from a preselection of 175 products grouped into 29 different categories "the best" photo product of the year in each category. The results of this year's contest, the largest of its kind in Europe, were announced during Color Foto's 30th anniversary celebration in Munich on Oct. 9th.

In Color Foto's 2000 election Zeiss also won the first prize in the medium format lens category. The Zeiss Tele-Apotessar T* 4/350 for the Contax 645 AF was the winning lens.
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