VILTROX 23mm f/1.4 Review – Does It Live Up To The Viltrox 85mm f/1.8?

• 4 years ago

Viltrox surprised photographers with the quality of their 85mm f/1.8. Now many wonder if Viltrox’s newly released lenses can follow it up with a similar level of performance for the price. Below is a summary of the above video for the Viltrox 23mm f/1.4:

• Clickless aperture moves very freely with a bit of a click at f/16 and a hard stop at f/1.4
• Metal lens hood
• Metal lens mount
• 11 elements in 10 groups with 2 ED elements
• 30cm min focus distance
• STM focus motor
• Nice lens for video
• 52mm filter thread
• 262g
• Feels solid and well built
• Well dampened focus ring
• Feels solid in use, but the aperture ring is a little too loose
• Easy to get decent results wide open
• Vignetting that is a bit dated looking
• The lens is sharp with nice colors and a little swirl to the bokeh
• Not for the pixel peeper
• Not an ideal focal length for shooting yourself, but not bad
• There is some focus breathing
• AF is good and focus tracking with video is quite good
• Video focus is pretty smooth
• A lot of the video in the review was shot on the camera
• Very good build quality
• Mostly trouble-free to use
• Sharp quality images with pretty smooth video to boot
• The Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 lives up to the Viltrox 85mm f/1.8

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VILTROX 85mm f/1.8: B&H Photo / Amazon

VILTROX 56mm f/1.4 (Coming Soon): B&H Photo / Amazon

VILTROX 33mm f/1.4 (Coming Soon): B&H Photo / Amazon

VILTROX 23mm f/1.4 (Coming Soon): B&H Photo / Amazon