Compact industrial lenses: New ZEI Lens Family for Industrial Use

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 30.10.2014.

The new ZEISS industrial lenses with an M42 thread mount feature a compact size, good image quality and a robust, all-metal body. They are approximately the same size as larger C-mount lenses. The new ZEISS lenses are equipped with a flexible and stable M42 thread and create an image circle of 43 mm. It is therefore ideal for imaging on area sensors between 1.3 and 24x36 mm, or line sensors between 28 mm and 43 mm.

The new lenses are only half the weight of the known ZF lenses from ZEISS and take up only one quarter of the volume taking into account the shorter flange focal distance . The very short flange focal length of just 26.8 mm also facilitates an overall compact camera lens system. The focus and aperture are fixed by knurled screws.

Currently, three different lenses are available:

ZEISS Biogon T* 2,8/21 Z-M42-I

ZEISS Biogon T* 2/35 Z-M42-I (35 mm focal length, maximum aperture f/2.0, extremely low distortion of max. 0.15%)

ZEISS C-Sonnar T* 1,5/50 Z-M42-I (50 mm focal length, maximum aperture f/1.5, very fast)

Thanks to their compact and stable design, the new lenses can better withstand shocks and vibrations.

Typical applications include images taken with unmanned aerial vehicles, interior photos during crash tests and deployment for traffic enforcement. Furthermore, the lenses flex their muscles in quality inspection with industrial image processing systems (machine vision) featuring mid-range camera sensors (4/3, Foveon, APS-C, APS-H, DX etc.). Finally, these compact ZEISS lenses can be used by demanding customers for many additional applications.

ZEISS industrial lenses are distributed by known specialists for industrial image processing. For a list of sales partners, please visit the ZEISS website http://www.zeiss.com/lenses4industry. Prices and specifications available upon request.

The three current available Z-M-42-I lenses ZEISS Biogon T* 2/35, C-Sonnar T* 1,5/50 and Biogon T* 2,8/21.

Compact ZEISS Biogon T* 2/35 (right) industrial lens with M42 thread mount compared to ZEISS Distagon T* 2/35 (left) both lenses create an image circle of 43 mm.

Tobias Brandstetter

Camera and Cine Lenses

Carl Zeiss

Phone: 49 7364 20-4694

Fax: 49 7364 20-4045

tobias.brandstetter@zeiss.com

Nicole Balle

Camera Lenses Americas

Carl Zeiss

Phone 1 914 681 7747

Fax: 49 7364 20-4045

nicole.balle@zeiss.com

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. The more than 24,000 employees of ZEISS generated revenue of about 4.2 billion euros in fiscal year 2012/13. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. ZEISS has been contributing to technological progress for more than 160 years. ZEISS develops and produces solutions for the semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries, biomedical research and medical technology, as well as eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetariums. ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with more than 40 production facilities, around 50 sales and service locations and over 20 research and development sites. Carl Zeiss AG is fully owned by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

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