Every professional photographer strives for a high and even picture quality, a confidence that the lens of choice will provide high-quality color reproduction from their digital photographic camera. Hasselblad's Zeiss lenses have been known among professional photographers for high quality photo imagining.

The adapted Carl Zeiss lens on the Olympus E-510 is fitted with a special Conkin filter system and a Hasselblad focusing ring.

I found an adaptor on eBay that would accept the same standard lens on a Hasselblad to fit on the 4/3 DSLRs such as the E-510 and E-500. It’s the Planar CF T*, f:2.8, 80mm (medium format) with the 35mm equivalent of 200mm.

The Carl Zeiss CF T* lens is grounded and polished to perfection, and a multi-coating of as many as six layers per optical glass. The coating increases the light transmission and reduces its contrast and color saturation. This gives digital images the most brilliant highlights and the most beautiful shadow details.

Although the Zeiss lens must be manually adjusted for both f-stops and focus, its place in my collection of digital lenses is an added necessity, especially for special portraits and depth of field effects. The first few digital shots produced images obviously of better quality than the cheaper Japanese lenses.

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