Zeiss Lenses for Nikon and Canon

Carl Zeiss Telephoto Lens

When it comes to optics, no name is more respected than Carl Zeiss. The best lenses in the world have been made by the German lens maker Carl Zeiss since the 1840s. High end camera makers like Swedish Hasselblad have exclusively used Zeiss lenses for decades.

And cinematographers have used Zeiss Cine lenses on Arriflex cameras to shoot many of the world’s greatest movies including Lord of the Rings, King Kong and Chronicles of Narnia, to name a few.

Zeiss lenses have high mechanical quality, reliability and durable. Most of the parts are metal–very little is plastic like less expensive lenses. Among the many things that sets these lenses apart is the T* lens coating. T* is a thin film multi-layer, anti-reflective lens coating that cuts down on reflections, reducing lens flare and increasing contrast.

Now the high quality and precision of Zeiss optics is available for 35mm film cameras and digital SLRs from Nikon. The ZF lenses are designed for Nikon F-mount cameras. All the lenses are prime lenses, .i.e. fixed focal length, with precision manual-focus.

Manual Focus Only
These lenses are manual-focus so you won’t be able to make use of the auto-focus function of your SLR. But so what? Photographers focused manually until only recently. It never stopped them from producing great images in the past. Only wimps need a crutch like auto-focus.