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POLL: Have You Heard Of Zeiss Lenses?

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I have a pair of Carl Zeiss binoculars (8x30, I believe) that I picked up way back in 'the good old days*' in East Berlin for something ridiculous like $10 brand new.

*Before the wall fell and capitalism spread east, circa 1985.
 
I think the Sony's with Zeiss lens are only designed by zeiss, not manufactured by them.

Otherwise, those Sony products would be much, much more expensive.
 
Uber optics Ya!

And as someone else said the Sony stuff is designed by Zeiss made by Sony, not to be confused with real Zeiss glass.
 
They are second-to-none in optics, and own(ed) the
patents for things like multi-coated lenses and
non-glass optical elements (i.e. flourite, quartz).

Their association with Sony is from their early
association with Yashica, who bought the Contax
product line from Zeiss (then I think were bought by
Konica, who also bought Minolta, they were bought by
Sony.

If you have an old person in th family, they probably
have heard of the Zeiss Ikon viewfinder cameras.

They also make eyeglass frames (bought Titus Optical
in the eighties), eyeglass lenses, lab equipment
(spectrophotometers, white scales), industrial
measurement machines, surveyor equipment,
electronmicroscopes , telescopes, microscopes,
planetarium projectors, and a bunch of other stuff.

They still make lenses for Hasselblad and other fine
cameras. Every picture from the moon (and virtually
all from manned space missions) went through Zeiss
lenses.

Carl Zeiss (the company) was one of the first to give
their employees things like time off and a ~40 hour
work week, vacations, and other benefits (~170 years
ago).

I worked for Zeiss 1979 - 1983, it was fun, I liked
it. I also got some binoculars and some other stuff.

I would like to add to the growing line of people to
point out that calling your friend an idiot is
actually in insult to people that are merely idiots.
Please kill your friend before he spreads his genetics
into the common pool.
 
My eyeglasses have a "Carl Zeiss Vision Teflon" anti-reflective coating, and I've been through two Sony digicams with Carl Zeiss lenses. The glasses coating is WAY better than the generic coating I had on my old glasses that got so scratched I couldn't see through them.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
LOL. Arguably the best optics in the world.

Of course it is a German product: www.zeiss.de 😛
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Yep. Absolutely awesome optics (mechanicals are great too, generally). German electronics truly suck though, they're almost at the bottom of the pile in nearly every category (and I say that as a component-level electronics repair kinda guy, and I used to work for Zeiss USA).

 
So they offer photography and journalism at clown college now?

It isn't just that your friend made an incorrect assumption, it is that he made it so brazenly that really gets under my skin. I am barely an amateur photographer and I knew about Zeiss optics.
 
Yes, through shooting and photography. I dont know if the quality is any better but if you judge by price I think Swarovski and definitely Schmidt and Bender have Zeiss beat.
 
Sony's Zeiss lens is akin to Panasonic's Leica lens. The lens companies oversee design and production line design only.
 
Originally posted by: ScottMac

I would like to add to the growing line of people to
point out that calling your friend an idiot is
actually in insult to people that are merely idiots.
Please kill your friend before he spreads his genetics
into the common pool.
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He seems to be doing a fairly good job of keeping himself out of the gene pool. 😛
 
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