24 February 2008

ZEISS CAMERA STORY
Helmut Heier About Nokia & Carl Zeiss Partnership

Helmut Heier, Sales & Marketing Director at Carl Zeiss, was at Mobile World Congress last week to launch Nokia Nseries' upcoming N86 8MP device.

Here he is talking live from MWC about Carl Zeiss innovation heritage and the history of the Nokia/Carl Zeiss partnership.

The two companies have collaborated since 2005 and have brought the design expertise and stringent quality requirements of Carl Zeiss to Nokia’s product creation process for high-end camera devices.

As a result of the collaboration, consumers are able to capture, share, store and print better quality images with Nokia’s flagship imaging devices. The outstanding scientific expertise from Carl Zeiss in camera optics and the industry-leading position of Nokia in the mobile phone market offer a solid foundation for the cooperation.

Thanks to the ongoing collaboration between Nokia, the global leader in mobility, and Carl Zeiss, a world leader in optics, you can take advantage of the same high-quality optical lenses used by the NASA to discover and capture the moon landscapes and for the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Many of the Nokia Nseries devices, as well as the Nokia 6220 classic, are equipped with a special lens which corresponds to the classic Carl Zeiss four-element Tessar. The special features of this lens include its high definition, low chromatic aberration and high speed of f/2.9 – despite its small size.

Mobile photographers can expect sharper image contrast, truer color saturation and professional-quality images every time. The lens’ focal length of 5.5 mm offers a very universal moderate wide angle perspective, comparable to a 35 mm lens for SLR cameras. The optical system reproduces the captured scene with maximum precision on a 2952 x 1994 pixel micro sensor.