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Almost 3 million more Carl Zeiss lenses in 2002 Carl Zeiss to exhibit at the Gulf Imaging & Photo Show Contax TVS Digital Vario-Tessar A new compact 3 How you can achieve the cleanest lens surfaces in the world Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens for Contax N autofocus system x 72 A new format covered by 3 the Carl Zeiss Biogon T* 4.5/38 lens zoom lens by Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss DigiPrime lenses now shipping Carl Zeiss Sharp Max TM 5 5
N e w s l e t t e r f o r a l l w h o u s e , b u y, s e l l , l i k e , r e p o r t a b o u t a n d a r e i n t e r e s t e d i n C a r l Z e i s s l e n s e s

January 2003

Camera Lens News No. 18
Almost 3 million more Carl Zeiss lenses in 2002
The demand for high quality lenses from Carl Zeiss keeps growing. Almost 3 million camera lenses have been supplied to worldwide markets in the Carl Zeiss fiscal year of 2001/2002 ending September 30, 2002. This is the highest number ever delivered in a single year. The driving force behind this development is the rapid growth of the digital still camera market. The number of Carl Zeiss lenses delivered to the digital video market has also increased significantly. In a logical pairing of leaders in their respective fields, Carl Zeiss, with its unmatched optical expertise, has joined with Sony, a very successful global play-
er in both the still and video digital consumer camera markets. Sony is a technology leader in key components for digital cameras, like imaging chips, miniature components and circuits, and compact power supplies with high stamina. Sony has achieved commanding positions in many digital still camera markets around the world and is the undisputed leader in the digital video camcorder business. Since 1997 Sony has equipped its top digital still and digital video camera models with high-performance lenses by Carl Zeiss. These cameras are very successful, gaining market share. Sony Digital Cameras Sony Digital Camcorders From now on CLN can provide more recent and even better information, since we can now include photos and graphics. We can thus present our messages in a more comprehensible and visually appealing way. On top we can, from now on, deliver facts and explanations which we could hardly bring across without the support of graphics. So we want you to have even more joy and success with your Carl Zeiss lenses. this Camera Lens News 18 is the first paperless issue of CLN. Dear Reader,

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Yours sincerely
Kornelius J. Mueller (previously Kornelius J. Fleischer)
Carl Zeiss to exhibit at the Gulf Imaging & Photo Show
Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division, will exhibit its products at the Gulf Imaging & Photo Show, which will be held in Dubai on February 11 through 13, 2003 as part of the the Dubai Shopping Festival. Under the banner Made in Germany, important companies from the German photo industry, including www.dcci.org
Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Carl Zeiss and its partners Arnold & Richter (Arriflex) and Rollei Fototechnic (Rolleiflex), will show their products at the Dubai Chambers of Commerce and Industry premises.

Contax TVS Digital

In the Contax camera world, the TVS label denotes high quality compact lens shutter (point & shoot) cameras made of particularly high value materials, equipped with a Carl Zeiss T* lens of the Vario-Sonnar type (hence the VS in the camera name). Photokina 2002 saw the introduction of the first digital Contax TVS. It is a 5-megapixel-camera with the now familiar titanium housing. The lens is a very compact Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 2.8 4.8/7.3 21.9 unit with 6 elements in 6 groups. Coverage of this autofocus lens is equivalent to a 35105 mm zoom on a 35 mm camera. 4x digital zooming extends the tele zoom range to 420 mm (in 35 mm terms). Normal close focusing goes to 0.6 m, but a special macro-function enables close-ups in the 0.15 to 0.6 m range. The Contax TVS Digital will become available soon at a very attractive price of 999 ($ 999). For more information on this camera, please visit: www.yashica.de www.contaxcameras.com The design criteria given to Carl Zeiss were the following: moderate speed (f/4.5 to f/8); a moderate zoom factor (2.5 x) and moderate image angles (77 to 35 degrees diagonally). The result is the Vario-Tessar T* 4,5 8/autofocus lens in the Yashica T zoom camera, with close focusing to 0.5 m. While offering the useful wideangle of a 28 mm lens, Carl Zeiss kept the lens compact and highly affordable. The resulting design of the first Vario-Tessar

The first digital Contax TVS
Vario-Tessar A new compact zoom lens by Carl Zeiss
Vario-Tessar is a new zoom lens concept by Carl Zeiss which enables quite small lenses as required for current compact, lens-shutter (point & shoot) camera designs. Market pressures require these cameras to be rather flat regardless of the image receiver used, be it 35 mm film, APS film, or a digital imager. The new Yashica T zoom, introduced at Photokina 2002 in Cologne, is the first camera to be equipped with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, in the 100th anniversary year of the original Zeiss Tessar patent from 1902. The new Yashica camera with the first Vario-Tessar T* lens has met the expectations of the market extremely well. The photo trade ordered this camera at Kyoceras Photokina booth in outstandingly high quantities for the Christmas season. Kyocera has decided to double the production capacity to keep up with the demand from the market. For more information on this camera, please visit: 100 years of Tessar www.yashica.de from high quality optical glass. All glass types used are modern ECO-versions which are free of lead and arsenic. The Vario-Tessar T*4,5 8/lens in the Yashica T zoom camera offers autofocus and close range focusing up to 0.5 m.
lens incorporates 7 lens elements, 2 of them aspheric. All elements are made

Yashica T zoom

Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens for Contax N autofocus system
Fast, yet handy apochromatic telephoto lenses have become indispensable optics for both sports and wildlife photographers. For the Contax N SLR system, Carl Zeiss has designed an all new autofocus lens, Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400. It is relatively fast and thanks to its great balance on the N-series Contax autofocus cameras, can be hand-held. It will produce images of stunning sharpness and brilliance over the entire frame, even wide open. Its resolution of fine detail impresses even the most demanding photographers, along with very low distortion. This high performance is virtually constant over the entire focusing range from infinity to the close-up limit of 2.9 m, giving a minimum field size of 150 mm x 224 mm. Utilizing the latest in optical glass technology and precision manufacturing, the Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens marks a summit in the development of Carl Zeiss Tele-Apotessar lens designs. It consists of 8 lens elements in 6 groups and covers an angular field of 6.2 degrees. Its performance challenges the quality of the best color films to their limits. The electric drive diaphragm of the Tele-Apotessar lens offers an aperture range of f/4 to f/32. The length of the lens is 292 mm, the diameter is 120 mm, its weight 3580 g, and it uses inexpensive 46 mm diameter filters in a convenient filter drawer. The lens comes with a rotating tripod collar. At the close focusing limit of 2.9 m a magnification of 1:6,2 (0.16 x) is reached. The resulting object field covered then is 150 mm x 224 mm. Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens Preferred fields of application are: sports, wildlife, photojournalism, fashion, advertising, portraits from a distance, photos with very shallow depth of field, documentation of inaccessible objects and actions.

Carl Zeiss Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens
Outstandig definition, superb brilliance and resolution of even the finest detail are the impressive features of the Tele-Apotessar T* 4/400 lens
Carl Zeiss DigiPrime lenses now shipping
At IBC in September 2002 in Amsterdam, both Carl Zeiss and Band Pro jointly announced that the with the schedule. DigiPrime lens production at the Carl DigiPrime lenses are now shipping, in perfect accordance
Carl Zeiss Sharp Max Maximising the sharpness of B-4-Mount lenses on 2/3rd inch High Definition cameras
The new Carl Zeiss Sharp Max precision collimation device is designed to provide accurate and consistent backfocus for the entire DigiPrime lens series, thus maximising the sharpness actually achieved in camera.
Zeiss factory in Oberkochen has since been ramped up to cope with the orders which keep coming in beyond expectations. Carl Zeiss has ordered the materials for additional production batches quite ahead of schedule. A growing number of digital cine productions plan to use Carl Zeiss ting time short. www.digiprimes.com DigiPrime lenses and
DigiPrimes lenses are the first set of primary lenses available in 5 mm (T1.9), 7 mm (T1.6), 10 mm (T1.6), 14 mm (T1.6), 20 mm (T1.6) and 40 mm (T1.6) to utilize the full potential of the finest 2/3 High Definition cameras. The Sharp Max is a compact device, not much larger than a lens, designed to go anywhere DigiPrime lenses go. After using it for the first time, Director of Photography Mike Spodnik, SOC commented, The new Sharp Max alignment device lets me make sure my back focus is properly set. It cuts quite a bit of time, so I can change prime lenses as often as I like within a minute or a minute and a half. It took me about 30 seconds to learn to use it. The fact that its field useable, small and self-contained makes it too good a device to leave out of any lens package. With the Carl Zeiss Sharp Max, backfocus adjustment is accomplished quickly and easily. With the Sharp Max attached to the front of the DigiPrime lens mounted on the shooting camera, the operator sets the lens focus scale to the mechanical infinity limit and adjusts the back-focus ring for the best visual resolution of the Siemens star image in the camera viewfinder or on the monitor. Finally the operator locks the backfocus ring, removes the Sharp Max from the lens, and returns to normal operation. The full procedure usually takes less than 30 seconds.
The new Carl Zeiss SharpMaxTM precision collimation device
The Carl Zeiss Sharp Max sports a rugged housing of anodized aluminum and has been constructed to match the quality of high precision Carl Zeiss camera lenses. Its athermal design features specially selected materials such as Invarstahl to avoid thermal expansion of critical components which would throw the optical adjustment out of precise alignment. The front of the unit is equipped with a clamping mount for Carl Zeiss DigiPrime lenses (which feature a uniform 95 mm front diameter). The mount is interchangeable, thus allowing Sharp Max to be compatible with other lenses featuring larger or smaller front diameters.

the factory tries its best to keep the wai-
Final inspection of the DigiPrime lenses
The SharpMaxTM attached to the front of a DigiPrime lens mounted on a shooting camera
The integral Siemens star size is optimized for the DigiPrime focal lengths. The user-adjustable illumination is provided by low draw LEDs. After an operator-defined duration, user adjustable between 1 to 10 minutes, the illumination conveniently switches off. This
Your lens: cleaner than ever before
minimizes draw on the internal standard 9 Volt battery that can deliver power for up to 4 hours of continuous operation. Also equipped with an external 12 V connector, the unit can be powered from most High Definition cameras rear 12 V DC accessory output. The Carl Zeiss Sharp Max is available from Band Pro Film/Video in Burbank, California, USA (www.digiprimes.com). The Sharp Max is also available within the Carl Zeiss program of lens testing technology. www.digiprimes.com Sharp Max
quite unique in the photographic industry, according to Alpa. In order to make full use of this new format and its creative potential, Alpa is developing a motorized film magazine with particularly good film flatness. Camera Lens News will report test results as soon as they become available. www.alpa.ch Biogon
Carl Zeiss offers the Optical Cleaning Mixture L, complete with a fine industrial quality marten soft hair brush, as used by Carl Zeiss in lens manufacturing, plus two micro fibre cleaning cloths and written instructions in the Lens Cleaning Set. With the Lens Cleaning Set a user, collector, or friend of fine optics can achieve lens surfaces as clean as the ones produced at the Carl Zeiss factory. Lens Cleaning Set

T* 4.5/38 lens

How you can achieve the cleanest lens surfaces in the world
At the Carl Zeiss factory you can see the
36 x 72 A new format covered by the Carl Zeiss Biogon 4.5/38
Alpa of Switzerland has developed a new medium format frame to be shot on roll film 120 and 220: 36 mm x 72 mm, a panoramic format with a 2:1 aspect ratio. The new format can be covered by Alpas Carl Zeiss Biogon T* 4.5/38 lens, even at fully open aperture of f/4.5. The opportunity to snapshoot panoramics with rich detail at f/4.5 is
cleanest lens surfaces in the world! Visitors to the Carl Zeiss factory in Oberkochen keep raving. And they ask for the secret behind these immaculately clean lenses. The decisive reason behind this impressive cleanliness is a special fluid, developed by Carl Zeiss and perfected over decades of day-today use in the production of precision optical instruments. Responding to numerous requests, Carl Zeiss now makes this special fluid available to all users and friends of precision optics. With the Optical Cleaning Mixture L by Carl Zeiss all the typical foulings on lens surfaces like fingerprints, grease, soot, deposits from drying water and others can be completely removed without leaving any residue. An immaculately clean surface will be achieved. A particularly important consideration: The Optical Cleaning Mixture L does not harm the Carl Zeiss T* anti-reflection coating layers, nor does it harm uncoated surfaces of optical glass. Also, mechanical lens parts, scales, imprints, grips, knobs on Carl Zeiss lenses are not Publisher: Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen Camera Lens Division Editor: Kornelius J. Mller Carl Zeiss D-73446 Oberkochen, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 73 64-20-Fax: +49 (0) 73 64-20-E-mail: photo@zeiss.de www.zeiss.de/photo Publishers Imprint Camera Lens News A newsletter for all who use, buy, sell, like, report about and are interested in Carl Zeiss camera lenses. All information in Camera Lens News is given to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. Technical specifications of Carl Zeiss products are subject to change.

The complete Lens Cleaning Set
The Alpa camera with the Carl Zeiss Biogon T* lens 4.5/38
harmed by the Optical Cleaning Mixture L.