Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad, Leica, Zeiss, which is better, with what advantages, which is stronger?

Nikon and Canon are the major manufacturers of general digital SLR (including 135 system in film era) with advanced technology and rich product lines. Their products are widely used in the field of photography and have huge social ownership.

Hasselblad is a medium format camera, the body is made in Sweden, and the lens mostly adopts the famous Zeiss lens in Germany. Compared with Nikon and Canon, its image frame is much larger, and the image quality is certainly higher. Mainly used in landscapes, advertisements, portraits and other subjects that need to be carefully carved. Its disadvantages are low automation, complicated operation, high price and narrow application, which is not conducive to snapshot, such as sports and news photography, and it will be difficult for it to use. Of course, there are many medium format machines, and Hasselblad belongs to the highest price and best quality grade.

Lycra used to be a famous film camera manufacturer, and its lens and fuselage processing technology is unparalleled in the world. Its fuselage design level is not very high, and many later models benefited from the design of Minolta in Japan, but the processing technology and imaging quality of its products are really impeccable. Its antique products are also expensive now. Its disadvantages are less product lines, few types, less automation than Japanese cameras, and extremely high price. To put it bluntly, Lycra is not only a shooting tool, but also a work of art. Like Rolls-Royce, owning it will soon become a status symbol, hehe.

Zeiss, Zeiss is the world's leading optical giant. At present, many lens structures we use are invented by Zeiss, such as the famous Kirk, Tiansai and Plana. At present, many lens designs are their variants or still use their designs. In fact, Zeiss produces a wide range of optical lenses with a very long product line, including film, TV camera lenses, medical care, military, surveying and mapping, microscopy, astronomy and other fields. Camera lens is just a branch of its optical tree.

Originally, the photographic lenses of Zeiss camera were mainly supplied to our Contax, including 135 series YC lens for SLR, 135 series G lens for paraxial, and 120 series C645 lens for medium format camera.

Of course, many famous cameras in the world also use Zeiss lenses, such as providing lenses for professional 120 cameras such as Hasselblad and Lulai, and providing a series of supporting lenses for various large-format cameras. Now we also provide lenses for Japanese manufacturers, such as Sony's ZA series lenses, Nikon's ZF series lenses and Canon's ZE series lenses. But at present, only ZA series lenses provided for Sony can realize AF function.

In addition, we can also see a kind of Cai Dong lens in the market, that is Zeiss lens in East Germany. After World War II, Germany's carl zeiss, like his country, was divided into two parts by the Allies, namely Zeiss in East Germany and Zeiss in West Germany. The quality of its products is also quite good. With the merger of East and West Germany, two Zeiss also merged into one. Zeiss in East Germany also has its own camera brand, Pantaikang. He also produces camera lenses with various specifications and bayonet for other manufacturers, such as Platik (that is, Baijia, who has a deep relationship with Pan Taikang of Zeiss), Flexex Jena, Axantai and other local cameras, and also produces many Japanese camera bayonet lenses, but in our country, most of them are PK.

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