The Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 has been a long time coming, but it should ship in May and the review have been slowly trickling out. Below is a summary of the above review:
- 13mm is a 20mm equivalent
- Not really ultra-wide and very useful for landscape and architecture
- Fantastic build quality
- Metal mount
- USB-C ports for updates
- Some degree of weather sealing but no gasket around the mount
- 67mm filter thread
- Works great with filters
- High-quality metal lens hood that can be left in place all the time
- The focusing ring is sufficiently large and the resistance is well weighted
- Good manual focus
- The aperture ring has clicks and is in 1/3 increments
- Center sharpness is great from f/1.4 but contrast is only good but gets better by f/2 and it is perfect at f/2.8
- Diffraction starts at f/11
- Corner sharpness is good at f/1.4 and becomes excellent at f/4 and above
- One of the best X mount lenses he’s ever tested
- Profile correction is baked into the RAW
- 0.1x magnification at 22cm
- Image quality is good at the minimum focus distance
- Smooth bokeh rendition
- AF is the best it can be and is fast and accurate
- It is one of the best AF lenses for video on the X-T4
- AF motor is completely silent so it won’t be picked up when recording video
- Very little focus breathing
- This lens is a great value at half the price of Fujifilm equivalent lenses
- One of the sharpest X-mount lenses ever tested, especially at f/2.8
- The only negative is that the mount could have used a gasket
Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 (coming 2022): B&H Photo / Amazon
Black
VILTROX 23mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
VILTROX 33mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
VILTROX 56mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
VILTROX 85mm f/1.8II: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Silver
VILTROX 23mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon
VILTROX 33mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon
VILTROX 56mm f/1.4: B&H Photo / Amazon
