Zeiss Ikon was a historic German camera brand formed in 1926 through the merger of several camera makers alongside Carl Zeiss, producing celebrated cameras including the Contax rangefinder and SLR series through the 1930s to 1960s. Camera production ended in the 1970s, and today the Zeiss Ikon name lives on mainly as a piece of photographic history and on collectible vintage cameras and lenses.