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Camera Lens News No. 4
Spring 1998
Famous photographer Francis Giacobetti in paradise

World famous French photographer and designer Francis Giacobetti, renowned for his fashion and beauty photography and recently very successful with his images of irises and hands of the geniuses of the world, visited the Carl Zeiss Oberkochen factory in June 1998.

Francis who uses a Contax RTS III and Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar 2,8/100 on his ongoing iris project and a Hasselblad 553 ELX with several Carl Zeiss lenses for portraits, fashion, and beauty assignments, highly enjoyed being in the place where Carl Zeiss camera lenses are being conceived, designed and manufactured: ”All of my life I was fascinated with everything that has to do with glass. Here I am in Paradise!”
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