Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, Amazon IT.
The very first review of the new Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 FE lens has been posted by Marc Alhadeff on SonyAlphaBlog. And the lens is surprisingly good:
The Viltrox 85mm F1.8 PFU RMBH (265 euros) is an excellent surprise and a superb lens for portrait :
Pros
- Very good to Excellent sharpness
- Beautiful color rendition
- Very pleasing and soft blurry background ,
- Very good bokeh,
- Very low price ,
- Very good build quality,
- EXIF transmitted to the body,
- Aperture control via the body
- Strong vignetting but corrected via the Lightroom Zeiss Batis 85mm profile
- Good resistance to flare
Cons
- Manual lens, so not for fast action portrait
- CA when facing sun
For 265 euros , highly recommended !
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The new Viltrox Full Frame and manual focusing E-mount lenses are now available here:
Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, Amazon IT.
Viltrox 20mm f/1.8 at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, Amazon IT.