Australian distributor confirms that Zeiss is exiting the Photo Business: No more Batis, Loxia, Milvus or Otus lenses!
Back on Apr 24, 2019 Zeiss announced their last photo lens, the Otus 100mm f/1.4 . Since then we got Cine professional lenses but no more classic lenses for photographers.
A member of the Fredmiranda forum shared the following news:
Hi all, I just had confirmation today from the Australian distributor, that Zeiss are discontinuing all of their still lenses and filters: no more Loxia, Batis etc.
End of an era
This means Zeiss no more producing Batis, Loxia
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