The legendary lenses
of Carl Zeiss.

Lenses can make or break picture quality. Simply stated, your pictures can only be as good as what the lens captures. Lenses are responsible for maintaining resolution, contrast, even illumination and consistent color from the center of the picture all the way out to the corners. With so much at stake, professional photographers are notoriously finicky about the lenses they shoot with. That's why professionals love Carl Zeiss® lenses. And that's why Sony chose a Carl Zeiss lens for the DSC-R1.