Carl Zeiss
Zeiss has thrown its hat into the ring of premium iPhone accessory lenses. Partnering with Fellowes Brands, the three Zeiss lenses will mount on the iPhone via the ExoLens mounting system, which is currently available for the iPhone 6/6s and the iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus.
The yet-to-be-released Zeiss lenses, a Mutar 0.6x wide angle, Mutar 2x telephoto, and Vario-Proxar macro, will hit the shelves in late spring, 2016. The macro lens uniquely features a zoom function and a translucent diffuser/spacer. All of the lenses are designed
Throughout the course of 2014, a number of notable SLR lenses were released, running the gamut from optically refined, fast primes to versatile and long-reaching zooms, with all other realms covered in between. While the lens releases varied from manufacturer to manufacturer and system to system, a number of distinct themes became recognizable, which act as foundation points from which to compare and contrast different lenses, as well as gauge expectations regarding the future of contemporary SLR lens design.
High-Quality, Fast Primes
One of
Last year Zeiss released the original Otus, the 55mm f/1.4 that set a new benchmark to which other SLR lenses would be compared for quite some time. The Otus quickly attained an almost mythic status and as this optic, with its owl-inspired name, began to make its way into the wild its reputation was sealed by consistently stellar reviews. Fast-forward nearly a year later, and Zeiss has
By their nature, it is easy to assume the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED 3D glasses are just for personal entertainment—gaming and unobtrusively enjoying movies, or as a portable alternative to a TV or projection system. But Zeiss wants you to think of them as something much more: a distributive technology redefining the way