LensViltrox52% by External Reviewers

Viltrox 20mm F1.8

Full-Frame Lens

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Product Overview

Viltrox 20mm F1.8 is a wide-angle manual-focus prime lens designed for E-mount and Z-mount full-frame systems. It has a full-metal construction and is an affordable option for landscape and architecture photography as well as street and environmental portraits.
This 20mm F1.8 is manual focus-only, which for its intended use cases may be preferred.
In 2021, Viltrox has unveiled an autofocus model, the 24mm F1.8, with features that Viltrox's APS-C lenses boast.

Ratings

What we found

Pros
  • Very good optics
  • Very good chromatic aberration
  • F1.8 aperture ring
  • Fast autofocus
Cons
  • Very high chromatic aberrations
  • Omits clickless aperture ring

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Specifications

E-MountZ-Mount

External Reviews

sonyalpha[1]

Reviewer score 52% (normalized by Neofiliac)
Reviewers from sonyalpha have found:
The Viltrox 20mm F1.8 PFU RMBH ASPH (410 euros) scores very well or excellent on almost all criteria but fail at a very important one for a wide angle lens : borders/corners are really bad and only usable around F8. Pros Very good to Excellent sharpness in the centre Beautiful color rendition Very pleasing and soft blurry background, Very good bokeh, Reasonable price, Very good build quality, Clickless Aperture ring Very good at video No CA Very Low distorsion (you can use Zeiss Loxia 21mm lens profile as a proxy to correct it) Moderate vignetting Very good resistance to flare Well thought 2mm filter holder
Pros
  • Very good to Excellent sharpness in the centre Beautiful color rendition Very pleasing and soft blurry background, Very good bokeh, Reasonable price,Very good build quality, Clickless Aperture ring Very good at video No CA Very Low distorsion (you can ...
Cons
  • Not very fast for a prime lens, expensive

References

  1. ^ Viltrox 20mm F1.8 PFU RMBH ASPH. [sonyalpha].

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