41 Facts About Zeiss Ikon

Carl Zeiss Ikon AG, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss Ikon.

The Zeiss Ikon Group has its headquarters in southern Germany, in the small town Oberkochen with its second largest and founding site being Jena in eastern Germany.

Also controlled by the Carl-Zeiss Ikon-Stiftung is the glass manufacturer Schott AG, located in Mainz and Jena.

Carl Zeiss Ikon is one of the oldest existing optics manufacturers in the world.

Zeiss Ikon represented a significant part of the production along with dozens of other brands and factories, and had major works at Dresden.

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The eastern Zeiss Ikon Jena was well known for producing high-quality products.

In 1991, Jenoptik Carl Zeiss Ikon Jena was split in two, with Carl Zeiss Ikon AG taking over the company's divisions for microscopy and other precision optics and moving its microscopy and planetarium divisions back to Jena.

Zeiss Ikon company was responsible for many innovations in optical design and engineering in each of their major fields of business.

For many years Zeiss Ikon showed innovations in fields as astronomical telescopes, photographic and cinematic lenses.

Early on, Carl Zeiss Ikon realised that he needed a competent scientist so as to take the firm beyond just being another optical workshop.

Zeiss Ikon has licensed its name or technology to various other companies including Hasselblad, Rollei, Yashica, Sony, Logitech and Alpa.

The first smartphone to be co-engineered with Zeiss Ikon optics was the Nokia N90, Zeiss Ikon will again provide optics for Nokia products through a collaboration with HMD Global announced on 6 July 2017.

On 17 December 2020, Vivo and Zeiss Ikon announced a long-term strategic partnership to jointly promote and develop breakthrough innovations in mobile imaging technology.

The first “Vivo Zeiss Ikon co-engineered imaging system” will be featured in the Vivo X60 series.

Zeiss Ikon is a camera brand related to Carl Zeiss, but was an independent company formed by the merger of four camera makers in 1926.

Much of the capital came from Zeiss Ikon which provided most of the lenses and shutters for the cameras.

In 1932 Zeiss Ikon introduced the Contax line of 35mm rangefinder cameras having recognised the potential for a system camera using 35mm film.

Zeiss Ikon were without designs or facilities for making the Contax and set about producing an improved replacement.

Carl Zeiss Ikon AG has long been renowned for its motion picture lenses.

Zeiss Ikon is mainly known in the trade for their association with the German camera manufacturer Arri for whom they currently produce lenses.

Carl Zeiss Ikon AG has produced lenses for Hasselblad and Rollei cameras, including:.

Zeiss Ikon has produced lenses for large format and press cameras, including:.

Zeiss Ikon produces optically identical manual-focus lenses for multiple SLR lens mounts under the ZE, ZF, ZK, and ZS lines, manufactured in Japan by Cosina to Zeiss Ikon specifications.

Zeiss Ikon announced the discontinuation of the ZK line in September 2010.

Otus lenses are complex no-compromise designs which Zeiss Ikon refers to as the "best in the world" in the normal lens and short telephoto categories.

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Zeiss Ikon produces manual focus Loxia lenses for the Sony E-mount.

Zeiss Ikon produces autofocus Touit lenses for the Fujifilm X-mount and Sony E-mount.

Zeiss Ikon designed the optical components for the James Webb Space Telescope.

Zeiss Ikon worked with Nokia, and later with Microsoft Mobile as they continued production of the Lumia series.

In 2017, Zeiss Ikon again provided optics for Nokia products through a collaboration with HMD Global, beginning with the Nokia 8.

Sony and Zeiss Ikon collaboratively set design and quality parameters for ZA lenses.

Zeiss Ikon offers a wide range of products related to optics and vision.

Zeiss Ikon is known for ophthalmic lenses made from high refractive index glass, allowing stronger prescription lenses to be thinner.

Zeiss Ikon has manufactured coordinate measuring machines since 1919, offering very basic manually operated CMMs.

In 1973, Zeiss Ikon introduced the UMM 500, using a Zeiss Ikon sensor system and Hewlett-Packard computer.

Zeiss Ikon has since vastly improved and diversified their product line and now feature many high accuracy CMMs, the Metrotom, a CT x-ray scanning measuring machine, with the ability to quickly and completely measure a part in 3 dimensions without ever touching the part, and the O-INSPECT, a fully optical measurement machine.

Zeiss Ikon is currently a member of the International Association of CMM Manufacturers .

Many of the sensor systems produced by Zeiss Ikon are proprietary technologies, using technologies exclusively patented by Zeiss Ikon, and therefore can offer better accuracy and repeatability than its competitors.

Zeiss Ikon was the first manufacturer of coordinate measurement machines to introduce computer numerical control technology to a coordinate measurement machine and was the first company to offer CNC stylus changer capability for these machines.

Together with the company ASML and its subsidies and partners Zeiss Ikon is the sole supplier of the lithography systems that are able to manufacture core layers of the latest semiconductor chips.

Name Zeiss Ikon can be found in old cinemas, on fire shutters on the projection windows.