Are Carl Zeiss lens better than Canon lens?

Question

I want to buy either a Sony or Canon camera and my friends told me to get a Sony because Carl Zeiss has the best lens.

Answer 1

I have Carl Zeiss lens on my Sony Camera which is good, but Cannon lens are excellent.  I think it is like comparing apples to apples. Go for the Camera that has the feathers you want.

Good Luck

Answer 2

Fhotoace is so right. Someone on this board said that "Zeiss whores their name to Sony" a while ago--and while that made me laugh, I suppose it's true.

Answer 3

It is sad how a little knowledge leads to assumptions which may or may hot be correct.

In the early 1900's Carl Zeiss and Ernst Lietz made the best microscope lenses in the world.

Sony basically has the license to produce lenses using the name owned by the formally East German camera company, Zeiss Icon.

In todays market, Nikon, Leitz and Olympus are the prime makers of the over million dollar lenses used to "print" the circuit boards on your computers CPU and other "computer" chips found on electronics, including those on digital cameras, iPods, cell phones etc.

Fuji and Canon make many of the lenses found on the Television Cameras you see at sporting events and when TV stations are doing remotes.

All that to say this.

Forget all that about what lens is better.  If you use Nikon, Canon, Leica, Olympus, Pentax, Zeiss or many other well known brands, your images will only be diminished by your skill level, not the quality or name of the lens on the front of the camera.

Now for the great news.

http://kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.ht...

Besides, it is your camera ... if your friends what Sony's let them buy Sony's

Of course you can show them this:  

http://www.jdpower.com/electronics/ratin...

It should cool their jets

If you go into a camera store and actually hold the Sony and compare it to the two leaders in DSLR sales (Nikon and Canon) you will be able to make a better choice based upon what you know, not what others think.  Always the best way to go.

And if they still pester you:

Tell them if they love Sony's so much, you are taking donations.