PRESS RELEASE
First Carl Zeiss Zoom Lens for High Definition at NAB
NAB 2004--Band Pro announces the worldwide premiere of the Carl Zeiss DigiZoom(tm) 6-24mm T1.9 lens. The ZEISS DigiZoom(tm) is the company's first precision zoom lens developed especially to enhance the potential of cutting-edge high definition cinematography cameras.
The new B4 mount lens makes use of many design innovations Carl Zeiss incorporated in the successful DigiPrime® family. For ease of use and optimal compatibility with cine lens accessories, the ZEISS DigiZoom offers industry standard-pitch zoom, focus and iris gears and brightly-marked oversized windowed cine scales, readable from either side of the lens. Individually calibrated focus scales ensure pinpoint accuracy. Like DigiPrime lenses, the zoom features a 95mm front diameter.
This 4X zoom employs the Carl Zeiss back-focus mechanism for accurately maintained calibration across the focusing range. The Zeiss Internal Focusing Design produces top performance -- center to corner -- over the entire focus and zoom range. It also facilitates a consistent center of gravity, minimum balance shift, and no breathing.
The ZEISS DigiZoom focuses to just 22” from the image plane -- 11” from the front of the lens. Additionally, the optic offers the unique ability to focus tightly on objects as small as 66mm x 117mm. Thus, even items as tiny as a business card can fill the frame in precise focus.
The new zoom offers numerous advantages for film-style production. As with DigiPrime lenses, the ZEISS DigiZoom has been engineered for optimum performance in low light situations with the aperture fully open. The Carl Zeiss design provides unsurpassed contrast control by minimizing flare, veiling glare, and internal reflections -- well below other zoom lenses. It also offers superior relative illumination and high resolution over the entire screen edge-to-edge, throughout the zoom range. Users will appreciate that the new lens does not ramp.
For exceptional color characteristics, Carl Zeiss carefully selects superior quality optical glass, and then applies proprietary coatings. Zeiss engineers have designed the 4X zoom to accurately color match and seamlessly intercut images made with the DigiPrime® family.
The ZEISS DigiZoom 6-24mm T1.9 is manufactured at the Carl Zeiss Optics factory in Oberkochen, Germany and marketed worldwide exclusively by Band Pro Film & Digital.
For more information, contact Michael Bravin at Band Pro Film & Digital: 3403 West Pacific Avenue, Burbank, CA 91505, Phone: 818/841-9655, Fax: 818/841-7649, digizoom@bandpro.com, www.bandpro.com.
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