CARL ZEISS DIGIZOOM™ 17-112MM T1.9

The second zoom in the Carl Zeiss line of precision optics for electronic cinematography will be unveiled at NAB April 24, booth #SU2917. The Telephoto DigiZoomTM17-112mm T1.9 joins the popular DigiPrime®series of nine fixed lenses and the ZEISS DigiZoom 6-24mm T1.9.

This new engineering marvel is amazingly compact (318mm long) and lightweight (7.8 lbs, 3.55 kg) for a long range and high performance lens.

The Telephoto shares design innovations used in the popular DigiPrime series. Industry standard- pitch zoom, focus and iris gears, and brightly marked oversized windowed cine scales are employed for ease of use and optimal compatibility with cine lens accessories. Individually calibrated focus scales provide pinpoint accuracy. The lens also features a 95mm front diameter.

The Carl Zeiss back-focus mechanism provides highly accurate calibration across the focusing range. The ZEISS Internal Focus Design ensures top performance, center to corner throughout the entire focus and zoom range. It facilitates a consistent center of gravity, minimum balance shift, and no breathing.

The new 6.5X zoom focuses to just 30” from the image plane. Plus, it has the ability to focus tightly on small objects, bringing them fully into frame in precise focus. Like the rest of the ZEISS DigiPrime and DigiZoom family, the 17-112mm has been engineered for optimum performance in low light situations with the aperture fully open. The design produces unsurpassed contrast control by minimizing flare, veiling glare, and internal reflections — well below other zoom lenses. It offers superior relative illumination and high resolution over the entire screen edge-to-edge, throughout the focal range.

Zeiss engineers have designed the new 6.5X zoom to accurately color match and seamlessly intercut images made with the DigiZoom 6-24mm T1.9 as well as the DigiPrime family.

The ZEISS Telephoto DigiZoom 17-112mm T1.9 will be manufactured at the Carl Zeiss Optics factory in Oberkochen, Germany, and marketed worldwide exclusively by Band Pro Film & Digital. Deliveries are scheduled for the fall of 2006.