Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 Review: One of The Best Lenses For X-Mount

• 3 years ago

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