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Anonymous
>>287499 Heritage for one. On the industrial level, they still make some of the best optics on the market. Their company has a large history of innovation in the field of optics... its founder and the person after whom the company is named contributed a lot to modern optics, working with Ernst Abbe and Schott... They also developed some really good classical optical formulas such as the Sonnar, which led to the development of some of Leica, Nikon, and Canon's best high speed lenses.
Their camera optics have been characterized by being manufactured with extremely high quality materials, designs, and with generally extremely good construction.
New 'Zeiss' lenses like the ones on Sony cameras are, however, just either rebranded Minolta optics or less than perfect formulas. It's not the Zeiss of old.
Their industrial/scientific optics are as good as ever, on the other hand.
TLDR: History shows they're fucking good, but chances are that new Zeiss lenses are just rebranded Minolta glass or less than perfect Sigma/Tamron shit.
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