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| Carl Zeiss Cooperates with Logitech |
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| ZEISS optics for the web: QuickCam Pro for notebooks |
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| Webcams with Tessar lenses for improved quality |
When you think about quality optics, webcams are surely not what you think of. These products frequently use insufficient lenses and sensors. But now there is a solution: a new type of Tessar lens from Carl Zeiss is entering the world of computers and laptops. This is made possible by the new cooperation partner Logitech. The global market leader for webcams and Carl Zeiss have now agreed to an exclusive collaboration with the goal of developing products for video communications with clearly enhanced image quality.
The famous Tessar lenses provide the foundation for this endeavor. This type of lens was developed in 1902. Tessar lenses are of compact design, high image quality and brilliance. This led to the "eagle eye of the camera" motto.
The first Logitech webcams with eagle eye optics were presented to the press at the end of June. Both models – the Logitech QuickCam® Pro 9000 and the Logitech QuickCam Pro for notebooks – will be available in the USA and Europe in July. They feature a Tessar 3.7 mm, f2.0 autofocus lens that has been optimized for a resolution of 2 megapixels, thus enabling outstanding detail rendition and clarity.
Logitech introduced its first webcam in 1995 and has played a key role in the development of webcam technology since the beginning of video communications via the Internet. Together with Carl Zeiss, Logitech now intends to create a new standard of image quality for webcams.
Logitech still sees outstanding growth opportunities in the field of webcams. “The unbelievable boom in broadband connections has made video communications available to an increasing number of people of all ages,” says Gina Clark, Vice President of Marketing for Internet Communications at Logitech.
Carl Zeiss optics for webcams create the image quality that brings people together – be it sons and daughters proudly showing their engagement rings to their parents, grandparents seeing the first pictures drawn by their grandchildren or face-to-face communications with subsidiaries, offices and business partners.
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| ZEISS optics for the web: the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for computers |
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July 2007 |
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