First review of the new Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 FE lens

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.