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Camera Lens News No. 6
Spring 1999 |
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Hasselblad’s brilliance improved: CFi/CFE—first results in print
One of the most frequently asked questions from Hasselblad users currently is: Does the new generation of CFi/CFE lenses from Carl Zeiss offer something new that is worth changing an older lens for a new one?
We at Carl Zeiss of course know why we introduce these new lenses:
- we improved brilliance and color saturation
- we improved handling and legibility of scales in dim light
- we improved durability of lens mechanics, especially the shutter even further. And we at Carl Zeiss do make the switch ourselves: we will change all our internally used older lenses on Hasselblad cameras with new CFi/CFE types. And so do many photographers who have used the new CFi/CFE lenses and thoroughly compared to previous models.
Hasselblad headquarters in Sweden is currently publishing striking comparisons in pictures between old and new lenses. This material will become available through Hasselblad dealers as you read this. (The photographers involved in this project who were provided by Hasselblad with new CFi lenses didn’t want to go back to their old ones…)
Even faster were the people at Hasselblad, Germany: They couldn’t wait and took their own comparison photos with a Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 4/120 CFi from the area of studio product shots for the fragrance industry. They published some of them in the latest edition of their magazine ”FORMAT”: The progress in brilliance with CFi can be clearly seen. FORMAT can be obtained free of charge from Hasselblad Vertriebsgesellschaftm.b.H., Postfach 1209, D–22902 Ahrensburg.
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