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Zeiss announces Firmware Updates for Zeiss Touit lenses

Zeiss announced that Firmware Updates are available to support PDAF with Zeiss Touit 12mm, 32mm and 50mm lenses through world-wide Zeiss service centers. Please note: this is a service center update – it’s not possible to perform this update the lenses yourself with a firmware download. Improvements Zeiss Touit 12mm F2.8 E-mount & Touit 32mm […]

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Lens Design 101: Interview with a Zeiss Master

For all you lens geeks out there, here’s a fascinating interview of Zeiss’ Dr Hubert Nasse by Matt Granger where they talk about lens design & optical technology with simple basic terms like “undesired lightpass”, “anomalous partial dispersion” and “anti-reflective limits of multi-coating for suppression of brightness” for elimination of “ghosting” and “flare”…ok, those last

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Just Announced: Zeiss Loxia 50mm F2 and 35mm F2 Fullframe Sony E-Mount Lenses

Just Announced: Zeiss Loxia 50mm f2 and Zeiss Loxia 35mm f2 manual focus fullframe lenses for Sony E-Mount cameras including Sony A7, A7R and A7S. Zeiss Loxia lenses are perfectly suited to the many strengths of Sony A7 series cameras and balanced due to their compact size and low weight. The lenses feature classic Zeiss

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Shoot it Like Stanley Kubrick

Filmmakers can now shoot their next film with Stanley Kubrick’s Super-Fast Zeiss Lenses. Kubrick used modified Carl Zeiss f0.7 lens developed for NASA to photograph the dark side of the moon to shoot the candlelit scenes in his 1975 film ‘Barry Lyndon’. The lenses were modified for Kubrick by Ed DiGiulio, of Cinema Products Corporation

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FIELD TEST: Zeiss Touit Lenses for Sony NEX

June 24, 2013 The promise of mirror-less cameras is lightweight and compact size compared to their bulkier heavier DSLR brethren. For much the same reason Leica rangefinders were favored over SLRs by many photojournalists, mirror-less cameras are the perfect choice when you want a smaller and more discrete camera without the noisy mirror-slap. Until now,

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