. Hollywood, NASA, and the chip industry put their trust in Carl Zeiss . Traditionally, the movie industry has always been a major customer for high-speed movie lenses from Carl Zeiss. . . For the US space agency NASA, Carl Zeiss developed and built the 50 mm Planar® f/0.7 lens – the world’s highest speed camera lens, permitting photos to be taken of the dark side of the moon for the very first time. Another example of Zeiss excellence is the Luminar set of photomicrography lenses used by scientists and criminologists alike. With these outstanding optical tools, tiny objects can be imaged larger-than-lifesize and with stunning detail. The high resolution Zeiss lenses for aerial reconnaissance and aerial mapping cameras are indispensable tools for landscape planners, cartographers, scientists, reconnaissance experts, and defence agencies. And in the dramatically expanding semiconductor industry, optics from Carl Zeiss now play an absolutely pivotal role. . The high performance S-Planar lenses and Starlith microlithography optics now achieve a relative aperture of 1:0.55 and a resolving power of 5000 line pairs per millimeter – undoubtedly the most powerful lenses in the world. Using deep ultraviolet light, they produce extremely fine structures with a width of only 0.18 micrometers on silicon wafers and hence play a key role in determining the capabilities of semiconductor technology and the performance of computers. The list of examples is virtually endless: practically no day goes by at Carl Zeiss without scientists and researchers improving upon what has already been achieved.