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Lenses for the Digital Era

Classic Zeiss Superspeeds beget latest DigiPrimes. If Zeiss' new DigiPrimes seem to be in a class by themselves, there's a history. That history goes back to the early days of lenses for film cameras and now shapes the primes that Zeiss builds for digital cameras. Outside of Panavision, which designs lenses solely for its own cameras, only three major names in motion picture lenses survive into the digital era: Cooke, Angenieux, and Zeiss. The British firm Cooke, on its own again after decades of management by the Rank Organization, was known in the late 19th century for its ...

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