Zeiss (thing)

Zeiss is a large German optics company. They make almost everything involving glass and light including microscopes, telescopes, glasses, camera lenses and even the great big doohickies that sit in the middle of planetariums.

They are one of the oldest optics companies in the world, founded in 1846 and they are responsible for some of the most important advances in optics, including:

• Anastigmatic, distortion free lenses
• Prism binoculars
• UV microscopy
• The first planetarium
• Coated lenses to reduce reflections
• The phase contrast microscope
• The first pocket binoculars
• Colour corrected lenses