page_title: Carl Zeiss AG
section_title: Batis lenses
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Zeiss AG / Camera lenses / Batis lenses
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Zeiss Batis f/2 25 mm
context_page_description: Carl Zeiss AG, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott he laid the foundation for today's multi-national company. The current company emerged from a reunification of Carl Zeiss companies in East and West Germany with a consolidation phase in the 1990s. ZEISS is active in four business segments with approximately equal revenue, Industrial Quality and Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology in almost 50 countries, has 30 production sites and around 25 development sites worldwide.
  Carl Zeiss AG is the holding of all subsidiaries within Zeiss Group, of which Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is the only one that is traded at the stock market. Carl Zeiss AG is owned by the foundation Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Zeiss 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-Stiftung is the glass manufacturer Schott AG, located in Mainz and Jena.
context_section_description: Zeiss produces autofocus Batis lenses for the Sony E-mount. Like Sony "FE" lenses, they cover the 35mm format.
  Batis Distagon T✻ 18mm f/2.8
  Batis Distagon T✻ 25mm f/2
  Batis Distagon T✻ 40mm f/2 Close-Focus
  Batis Sonnar T✻ 85mm f/1.8
  Batis Sonnar T✻ 135mm f/2.8
caption: Zeiss Batis ƒ/2.0 25 mm
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