Silliness aside, i never said one should do that, or that it necessarily makes it a bad product, or whatever you're suggesting.. thanks for putting that on me. Now I’ve always known that the Fuji 23mm xf lens wasn't particularly sharp wide open and, to be honest, it’s never bothered me that much, but I've never had enough confidence in the fuji xf to shoot group photos unless I stopped down to say f5,6 where it improves somewhat at the edges. Don’t forget correction is automatically applied to Fuji lens, so things like vignetting are not noticed unless you go out of your way to see the actual raw file produced.

Viltrox AF 23mm F1.4 Review - DustinAbbott.net

This is where my review starts to sound more and more like an echo from my Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 review. The value proposition is certainly there for the Viltrox 23mm f/1.4 as well and you can’t really go wrong when it comes to value for money spent. His expertise with equipment doesn’t end there, though. He is also an encyclopedia when it comes to all manner of cameras, camera holsters and bags, flashguns, tripods and heads, printers, papers and inks, and just about anything imaging-related. Of course if the final images look bad after the processing, fair enough, people should criticise that. My point was that digital corrections are just as much a part of modern lens design as complex aspherical lens elements (and there can be benefits to doing some correction digitally, in that it means you don't add optical elements to correct distortion than then introduce other aberrations or undermine your efforts to make other corrections).Overall, I think this piece of glass does strike a good balance between price, image quality and the tradeoffs. Plus, it is made in Japan. Fuji X-T3 . Sigma 30mmF1.4 @30mm . f/1.4 . 1/5000″ . ISO 160 . Post-edited Issues: I got the lens profile setup in Lightroom but Viltrox says it only works with JPEGs which is pretty disappointing. I found a work around by editing the lens profile in notepad "CameraRawProfile" is set to false. I edited it to true and it works flawlessly in with RAW now. Image attached for people in the future.

Ống kính Viltrox AF 23mm f/1.4 STM ED IF For Fujifilm X Ống kính Viltrox AF 23mm f/1.4 STM ED IF For Fujifilm X

More demanding sensor" makes resolution numbers higher. So of course Viltrox has higher numbers in some cases. In the same time you show that Fujinons still have higher numbers in other cases despite lower resolution sensor which is pretty remarkable. Thank you for your comment. Yes, because I cannot find myself a reason to buy if I have own the 23mm and 35mm. So I've noticed that when stopping down, the aperture blades arent symmetrical. This is on the latest firmware. This was stopped down around 5.6. The "new normal" for lens manufacturing is no longer cheap and torrid manual focus lenses. We've had plenty of those over the years, and while we might not have been willing to accept their limitations, the price was the ultimate guiding principle. Well, things have moved forward, and Viltrox knows what their customers want. Actually, they know what Fuji's (and Sony's) customers want: keenly priced lenses with very good (but not necessarily great) AF optics. With the 56mm, they have hit that sweet spot of a sharp lens with very good bokeh; I suspect that 95% of Fuji customers will be happy with the technical specifications; however, it is the price that nails it. While this review doesn't cover studio testing, I don't doubt that the Fuji lens is sharper, particularly in the corners. Does this level of pixel-peeping matter to you? Thanks for posting the test. Yes, the difference seems significant! Sharper center. An oddity is that the Viltrox samples downsize better. Is that due to better low frequency MTF? I can't really judge edge sharpness very well from this set. It's true that the final two shots make the XF 23/2 look sharper, but rendition is so dark that the Viltrox produces more knot detail.Browsing through my images captured with the Viltrox AF 23mm f/1.4 XF I found them rather pleasing. That goes for images of English Bay as well as street photography. However, this lens does come with some downsides. First, it does not has an aperture ring. Something that I do miss sometimes. Second, it is not a full weather resistant lens. It does not matter to me, but I think it is good to let the readers know. Left: Fuji X-T3 . Sigma 30mmF1.4 @30mm . f/1.4 . 1/700″ . ISO 160 . Post-edited I agree that Fuji might just to be too small to care, but they should be able to reuse the existing 16mm, 30mm, and 56mm optical formulas. The Viltrox lenses on Fuji X are also available on E and EF-M, for example.