ZEISS just announced the ZEISS ZX1, their new full frame camera, featuring a sensor developed in house, a 35mm F2.0 fixed lens, 4k 30p recording onto an internal 512GB SSD and photo editing on camera via built-in Lightroom Mobile. Keep reading to find out more about this daring new product by ZEISS. ZEISS is well known among photographers as well as cinematographers for producing premium glass, boasting incredible sharpness, little distortion and as some claim a certain undefinable “pop”. However aside from some collaborations on smartphone lenses with a certain company known as Nokia back in the day, they haven’t really been making digital cameras. And even in the film world their last camera was the ZEISS Ikon, an M-Mount rangefinder camera introduced in 2004. And then the ZEISS ZX1 … Cut to 2018, they just introduced a camera which follows its own daring concept. The ZEISS ZX1 is a modern digital rangefinder with a full frame 37.4 MP sensor developed in house by ZEISS themselves. The fixed lens on it is a ZEISS Distagon 35mm F2.0, with ZEISS’ T* coating. It does have AF, but a manual aperture, that can also be set to auto on the lens itself, similar to how FUJIFILM handles this in their cameras. The same goes for the ISO and shutter speed dials on top of the camera. The Design What jumps out at you about this camera is that ZEISS obviously tried to cut away everything unnecessary. The body, which weighs in at...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 27 September, 2018