The ZEISS Compact Zoom CZ.2 15-30mm T2.9 (MFT Mount, Meter Scale) is a professional wide-angle cinema zoom lens designed for filmmakers who demand exceptional image quality, full-frame coverage, and versatile performance. Featuring a constant T2.9 aperture, robust cine-style construction, and a broad 15-30mm focal range, this…
The ZEISS Compact Zoom CZ.2 15-30mm T2.9 (MFT Mount, Meter Scale) is a professional wide-angle cinema zoom lens designed for filmmakers who demand exceptional image quality, full-frame coverage, and versatile performance. Featuring a constant T2.9 aperture, robust cine-style construction, and a broad 15-30mm focal range, this lens delivers outstanding sharpness, contrast, and natural color reproduction. Optimized for digital cinema production, it offers minimal focus breathing, nearly 300° focus rotation, and weather-resistant construction, making it an ideal choice for feature films, documentaries, commercials, and high-end video productions.
The ZEISS Compact Zoom CZ.2 15-30mm T2.9 is a premium cinema zoom lens engineered to combine the image quality of ZEISS prime lenses with the flexibility of a professional zoom. Designed for Micro Four Thirds camera systems while providing full-frame image coverage, this versatile lens delivers exceptional optical performance across a wide-angle focal range, making it ideal for cinematic storytelling, landscapes, architecture, documentaries, and commercial productions.
As part of the renowned ZEISS Cinema Zoom family, the CZ.2 15-30mm features a constant T2.9 aperture throughout the zoom range, ensuring consistent exposure and depth-of-field characteristics during zoom operations. Its advanced optical design delivers high contrast, excellent resolution, and natural color reproduction while minimizing flare, ghosting, veiling glare, and distortion.
The lens is optimized for modern digital cinema cameras and is capable of supporting demanding 4K productions and beyond. A rounded iris creates smooth, natural bokeh, while the lens's optical design minimizes focus breathing across the focus range, helping maintain consistent framing during focus adjustments.
Built for professional workflows, the CZ.2 features a robust cine-style housing with integrated 0.8 MOD gearing for follow-focus systems, nearly 300° of focus rotation for precise focus pulling, and improved dust and water protection. Its compact dimensions and lightweight design make it suitable for handheld shooting, gimbals, drones, Steadicam systems, and traditional cinema rigs.
Whether capturing dramatic wide-angle scenes, immersive documentary footage, or cinematic commercial content, the ZEISS Compact Zoom CZ.2 15-30mm T2.9 delivers the flexibility, reliability, and image quality expected from world-class cinema optics.
Key Features
| Manufacturer: | ZEISS |
| Category: | Lenses |
| Minimum Focusing Distance | 550mm |
| Lens diameter | 114mm |
| Lens Length | 198mm |
| Lens color | Black |
| Lens type | Fixed Glass |
| Lens suitable for | Full frame |
| Aperture (f) | 2.9 |
| Focal length | 30mm |
| Auto focus | No |
| Weight | 2600g |
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