I spent a couple of hours at a Zeiss test day at UK importer “Robert White” where I tested all of the lenses on my Canon 5d mk2, and subsequently poured over the images in Lightroom. I was intrigued to try out these legendary lenses. Zeiss are manufacturing their classic manual focus primes with mounts for Pentax “ZK” Canon “ZE” and Nikon “ZF”. I look forward to trying the EXOlens with the Zeiss’s T* anti-reflective coating, I hope the image contrast and clarity matches my other cameras that have Zeiss T* glass and coating.Zeiss manual focus lenses for Nikon, Canon and Pentax They started as a Kickstarter and I am glad to see that they are doing well. Moment lenses ( ) were the first to make a proper add-on lens for iPhones that were razor sharp, edge to edge with no Chromatic Aberration and I really love the wide-angle lens for occasions where the stock iPhone lens isn’t wide enough. The quality of your image really depends on what glass you have on the camera, so I’ve always stayed away from the cheap add-on lenses with poor glass. I think they borrowed the idea from Moment lens and stepped it up a bit by using Carl Zeiss T* lenses.Īdd-on wide angle and fish eye lenses are quite popular for mobile phones and I have used many.įrom cheap generic clip-on to popular ones like the Olloclip to ones made with professional glass from Century Optics (iProLens) – all of them have some degree of distortion and Chromatic Aberration especially on the edges of the image. On the other hand, if you’re doing daylight architectural, scenic and landscape photography then a phone plus these Zeiss lenses would be fine. Further, the flip out display on the GX8 (and similar cameras) makes selfies, timer shots and video blogging and more not reliant on the inferior secondary camera on the screen side of most phones. The tactile controls, (adjustable) OLED viewfinder, larger sensor (less of an issue with today’s phones that somehow manage pretty well in low light), auto focus speed and stunning 4K video (with stereo audio recording of course) reminded me that you cannot do street photography with a phone because there is no viewfinder making intimate composition impossible. And then I got back into owning a real camera again by buying a Panasonic GX8 plus 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. Prominently found in Sony digital cameras, Zeiss’s optics are a photographic industry gold standard, relying upon high-quality glass and thoughtful optical designs to minimize distortion and chromatic aberration while preserving color and contrast. The “first three” Zeiss-developed ExoLenses for iPhone include Mutar-branded 0.6x wide-angle and 2x telephoto lenses, each in a black anodized aluminum housing with water- and dust-resistant coatings, as well as a Vario-Proxar macro lens that enables continuous zoom to capture subjects 3-12cm in diameter, and includes a detachable diffusor/spacer.Īt some point, after being blown away from the superb images from my Galaxy Note 4 (that I imagine the latest iPhones equal), I thought that phones will replace dedicated cameras. Each lens screws into a machined aluminum mounting and tripod bracket that attaches to Apple’s devices. Incorporating Zeiss’s T* anti-reflective coating, the lenses offer optical quality comparable to the Zeiss lenses found in Sony cameras, improving on already-released ExoLens systems for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. ExoLens, a division of Fellowes, today announced a partnership with highly-respected camera lens maker Zeiss to release “ExoLens with optics by Zeiss,” a series of three new high-quality add-on lenses for the iPhone 6/6s and Plus models.
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