It has been a while since the ZEISS Ikon and Contax cameras were rolling off assembly lines and shipping to the B&H SuperStore shelves but, today, Zeiss has announced an intriguing new full-frame digital camera—the ZEISS ZX1—featuring a fixed ZEISS Distagon 35mm f/2 T* lens sitting in front of a Zeiss-developed 37.4MP sensor. The lens has 8 elements in 5 groups, with a minimum focus distance of 11.8", and the sensor has an ISO range of ISO80-51200. This camera has been designed from the base up as a machine that allows you to capture, edit, and share your images easily without plugging into a computer and post-processing at home.
Many digital cameras offer in-camera post-processing, but the photographer’s favorite tools for editing images remains computer-based software. The new ZEISS ZX1 has Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC built into its brain, and the camera allows you to edit your photos on a large 4.3" multi-touch display on the rear of the camera. Don’t sweat the memory cards either, because the camera has 512GB of memory on board—enough for 6,800 raw DNG-format files or 50,000 JPEGs. The camera has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB-C connectivity so you can share your captured and edited photos on the go, as well as functioning to keep the camera’s software up to date.
More specs, please? The camera shoots at up to 3 fps and records 4K video last 30fps. The camera measures approximately 5.6 x 3.7 x 1.8".
Oh, by the way, the camera is gorgeous! And be sure to catch the gorgeous video we shot of this camera, at the Photo Plus Expo 2018.
What do you think of a full-frame digital camera built with smartphone-like capabilities to capture, edit, and share on the go? Are you excited to see the ZEISS name back on a camera housing? Chime in below!
