World premiere at Cine Gear Expo Los Angeles, June 5-6
ZEISS Horizon Anamorphic is a set of full frame 2x anamorphics with an all-new internally motorized lens technology platform.
Oberkochen/Germany, June 2, 2026 — ZEISS unveils the Horizon Anamorphic series, a new lineup of full-frame 2x anamorphic cinema lenses designed to deliver a distinctive cinematic look along with a new lens technology platform that answers the need for speed and precision demanded by contemporary production workflows. Spanning 35mm to 200mm across seven focal lengths, Horizon lenses combine their anamorphic look—incorporating a pronounced oval bokeh and stretched sense of spatial depth—with a lightweight, fully integrated motorized system that eliminates the need for external focus or iris motors.
“With Horizon Anamorphics we bring the next chapter of ZEISS cinema optics to life by combining cutting‑edge technology with a refined image that preserves the human, cinematic feel,” explains Christophe Casenave, Head of Business Unit Cinematography at ZEISS.
One Lens, Multiple Looks
The Horizon series is engineered with a neutral baseline look designed to encourage versatility, accepting filtration, LUTs, and diverse lighting approaches without imposing a baked-in feel. Instead, ZEISS introduces a proprietary look-tuning back element — an optical integration that allows crew to achieve a more nuanced lens look. Mounted via the ZEISS Interchangeable Mount System (IMS), it alters sharpness, contrast, and overall character with a simple eight-screw swap, while preserving scale accuracy and calibration.
Seamless Integration
Horizon Anamorphic lenses seamlessly integrate into Preston…
Whisper-quiet and ultra-reliable focus and iris motors are built directly into the lens body, offering compatibility with ARRI and Preston lens control systems via serial or LBUS connections. Factory-calibrated absolute encoders store all lens scales within the lens. This creates a single consistent source for metadata, eliminating the need for re-mapping scales or re-rigging motors between setups. Dual displays and touch panels directly on the lens barrel allow quick focus and iris checks.
“Horizon marks a new reference platform that integrates lens motors, data and ecosystem compatibility and by that enables faster, end‑to‑end production workflows,” Casenave adds.
… and ARRI LCS workflows.
Low distortion, stable color, and minimized aberrations make the Horizon lenses well-suited to VFX-intensive productions requiring clean keying, tracking, and CG integration. All seven lenses share a consistent 114mm front diameter to support balanced handheld, gimbal, drone, crane, and car-rig operation. A fast T2.3 stop across the full-frame coverage set (T2.9 at 200mm) provides shallow-depth-of-field anamorphic even in challenging lighting conditions. Built-in processing and on-board memory are designed to support future expansions including broader ecosystem compatibility, extended metadata capabilities, and potential autofocus integration.
Availability
The 40mm, 50mm, and 75mm Horizon Anamorphic lenses are scheduled to ship in September 2026 through authorized ZEISS cinema dealers, with 35mm, 100mm, 150mm and 200mm focal lengths following in 2026 and 2027.
For more information, visit zeiss.com/horizonanamorphic
Horizon Anamorphic’s adjustable main display and touch panels give instant visual feedback and direct control of live focus and iris values.
Horizon Anamorphic’s second display shows the current focus distance and iris setting as well.
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ZEISS Cinematography
ZEISS high-end cinematography lenses have been advancing the film industry for more than 80 years and have received numerous honors, including three Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today, filmmakers around the world choose ZEISS lenses for their productions.
The ZEISS cine lens portfolio includes the Horizon Anamorphics, the Panoptes 65 for the 65 mm cine format, the characterful Aatma lenses, the Nano Prime family for mirrorless full-frame cameras, the Compact Prime CP.3 and CP.3 XD lenses, and the Supreme family of lenses including the Supreme Prime, Supreme Prime Radiance, and Supreme Zoom Radiance. The ZEISS CinCraft ecosystem offers lens data-related services and products for visual effects and virtual production, including CinCraft LensCore for physically based compositing, CinCraft Scenario for real-time camera tracking and CinCraft Mapper for frame-accurate lens distortion and shading data.
Headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany, ZEISS Cinematography is represented worldwide, including locations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
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Press contact
ZEISS Cinematography
Benjamin Hagen
Phone: +49 7364 20-3979
Email: benjamin.hagen@zeiss.com