At 18:33 8/12/99 , Richard Ross wrote:
>A trawl of the archives produced a 1984 issue of Amateur Photographer with
>a full page advert for "Zeiss Jenazoom Lenses". Quote "Today Zeiss have
>introduced a range of lenses which they have had maufactured to their
>specifications in Japan, which incorporates the very finest traditions, the
>total experience, of over 100 years continuous lens production. Designed
>to complement virtually every SLR camera manufactured - available for
>Praktica, Canon, Olympus, Nikon ..." etc. It draws comparisons with the
>world famous "Tessar" of the 1900s.
>
>The sole UK distributors were Carl Zeiss Jena Ltd, the UK arm of the East
>German Zeiss company. The ad features a "75-300mm f4.5-5.6 MC Macro
>Jenazoom", with 13 elements in 10 groups, a filter size of 58mm and
>weighing 690g. It doesn't mention any others specifically.
>
>A dealer ad in the same issue lists the following (prices in UKP)
>28mm f2.8 43.95
>35-70 f3.5 69.95
>35-135 f3.5 139.95
>70-210 f4.5 94.95
>
>As a comparison, the same ad lists a Sigma Synchro-II 35-135 f3.5 at the
>same priceas its Zeiss equivalent. This may or may not be an indication of
>quality and/or origin :-)
The questions now would be:
1. Did CZJ market them in the U.S.?
2. If so, under what trademark? (Jenoptik??)
I'm thinking if they were marketed in the U.S. it would be more likely for
those of us in the U.S. to find the trademark used here versus the CZJ used
elsewhere.
-- John
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