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DxOMark February 2011 - New data for the Carl Zeiss lenses

New measurements for Carl Zeiss lenses now available on DxOMark:

  • To view full results and scores for the Planar T 50mm f/1.4 ZF2 click here;
  • For the Makro-Planar T 50mm f/2 ZF2 click here;
  • For the Planar T 85mm f/1.4 ZF2 click here;
  • For the Makro-Planar T 100mm f/2 ZF2 click here.



Innovation – The Magazine from Carl Zeiss

The emphasis is placed on texts received from customers describing how they use our products. Other topics covered include product developments, interesting applications and services, orders and cooperation ventures.

“Innovation” appears twice a year in German and English.
Click here to download the English version PDF(3.2MB)

New data for Carl Zeiss lenses at DxOMark

Six month after we started image quality data for lenses, we now have 105 lenses being measured on DxOMark. Each lens being evaluated for many compatible cameras that is more than 1,000 camera/lens combinaisons available!

  • To view the data for the Zeiss lenses click here
  • To access the list of all measured lenses click here



Carl Zeiss Light is my language photography competition

Carl Zeiss launched its annual global photography competition. This year’s theme is “Light is my language”. Photographers and photo enthusiasts are invited to illustrate and capture the theme from their own perspective. Anyone can participate, provided the images are shot with ZEISS lenses. It doesn’t matter if the picture was taken with an SLR camera or a camera phone.

“Light is the most important creative means in photography. Every photographer speaks his own language and ultimately expresses his creative messages through light and shadow,” explains Martin Klottig, Marketing Manager of the Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division. There are many ways of expressing one’s creativity through light and shadow. With light reflections, messages in bokeh (the out-of-focus area of an image), colorful accents derived from long exposure times or the soft glimmer of barely discernable light, photographers give their images meaning. “We are looking for photographers who can make something visible that would otherwise remain hidden. The award-winning pictures will exude both creativity and conscious composition,” adds Klottig.

For the first time, anyone will be able to follow the competition during its entire duration on Flickr, the global online photo community. Participants in the competition should upload their best image that fits the “Light is my language” theme and tag it with the keyword “ZEISSContest2010” on the official Carl Zeiss group on Flick.

The jury
Pictures can be submitted until Sunday, January 16, after which a jury will select the 10 best images. The jury will assess pictures on their creativity and technical execution of the concept. The highest number of points will be given to exciting images that have been created before and during the shutter release, with as little revising and adapting of the image as possible.

What you can win
From the 10 shortlisted images, the Flickr community will then select the three best images by designating them as a “favorite”.

  • First prize is your choice of a ZEISS SLR lens.
  • Second place is worth a cinemizer Plus, including a Nokia N8.
  • The third place winner will receive a Sony DSC-TX9 compact camera with ZEISS optics.

Contest link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/carlzeisslenses/pool/

Carl Zeiss presents a new moderate wide-angle lens

Distagon T* 1,4/35


OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 01.09.2010.
A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost in thoughts, she doesn’t notice the glass of wine the bartender places before her. From a distance, a photographer tries to capture her mood. He brings her face, which is leaning toward her phone, into focus. Everything around her becomes a blur, and the lights in the background coalesce into a wild “dance” of diffuse shapes.

This shot will only work with a fast lens with short focal length and harmonious bokeh. Carl Zeiss introduces a new lens for just such images: the Distagon T* 1,4/35.

By introducing the Distagon T* 1,4/35, Carl Zeiss is complementing the Planar T*1,4/50 and T*1,4/85 lenses with a wide-angle lens that shares the same high speed. Crisp, sharp images work every time, whether at dusk or in the weak lighting conditions of a café, and without the need for a tripod. With its 35-mm, the Distagon T* 1,4/35 matches the classic and versatile standard focal lengths when used on cameras with APS-C sensor formats.

Due to the special bokeh effects in both the foreground and background areas, the Distagon T*1,4/35 opens up new creative possibilities, giving photographers more options to ‘play’ with focus. Thanks to its large focus ring, photographers can also create highly accurate, sharp pictures, even at maximum aperture opening. In addition, the optical construction of the lens guarantees high image quality across the entire image range. Furthermore, with one step less than the full aperture opening, the light fall-off toward the edges is just one f-stop.

With the ZEISS T*‘s anti-reflective coating, its sophisticated stray light reduction and the excellent flare control the new Distagon also takes pictures of bright light sources without artifacts. The Distagon T*1,4/35’s extremely long-lasting and robust all-metal precision mechanics, for which Carl Zeiss is known, make this lens perfect for use on-the-go and for photo reports.

The Distagon T* 1,4/35 will be available in first quarter of 2011 at a recommended retail price of €1385.71 (excluding VAT)*.

Technical specifications

Focal length: 35 mm
Aperture range: f/1.4 – f/16
Number of elements/groups: 11/9
Focusing range: 0.3 m – infinity
Angular field**
(diag./horiz./vert.):
63/54/37 °
Coverage at close range: 18 x 12 cm (close-up)
Image ratio at close range: 1:5 (close-up)
Filter thread: M 72 x 0.75
Weight: 830-850g
Length with caps: 120-122mm
Mounts: ZF.2 (F bayonet)
ZE (EF bayonet)

* As of September 01, 2010
** relates to small camera format

Sample Image Take from This Lens

Distagon T* 1,4/35: Crisp, sharp images

Carl Zeiss on show at 2010 photokina

This year’s visitors to the Carl Zeiss booth at photokina will be able to touch, test and even walk through high-quality lenses. The optical experts want to make an encounter with the world of Carl Zeiss something to remember.

“We will present new lenses and, for the first time, accessories at photokina. You’ll have to be a bit more patient to find out exactly what we have in store,” announces Martin Klottig, Marketing Manager of the Camera Lens Division at Carl Zeiss AG. Twice as large as its predecessor in 2008, the “application island” at the booth in Hall 2.1 will allow visitors to test the entire line of Carl Zeiss lenses. Using a number of real subjects, photographers and anyone else interested will have the opportunity to try our various focal lengths and settings. In addition to the entirely new ZEISS lenses, guests will also be able to use Sony lenses featuring Carl Zeiss technology and the coveted Compact Prime CP.2 lenses on HDSLR cameras for video recording.

The walk-through lens introduced in 2008, invites this year’s visitors to experience the 120-year history of lenses at Carl Zeiss. It shows how Carl Zeiss has accompanied photography from one era to the next and how developments of the past have laid the foundation for the future. The high-performance Tessar lenses, for example, have been around since 1902. These pioneering, compact designs are used in a miniaturized form in high-end Nokia mobile phones.

Our partner Nokia will also present its latest smart phones at our booth, and demonstrate how compact, creative and high-quality mobile photography with Carl Zeiss works.