Review on 📷 Black Viltrox XF Fujifilm X-Mount Lens 56mm with Autofocus and f/1.4 Aperture by Manaporn A Skuljaroe ᠌

Name: 📷 Black Viltrox XF Fujifilm X-Mount Lens 56mm with Autofocus and f/1.4 Aperture
Item: 📷 Black Viltrox XF Fujifilm X-Mount Lens 56mm with Autofocus and f/1.4 Aperture
Rating: 5

April 13, 2023

A wonderful product, its nice to use.

In general, I consider the lens a good deal for my money. Yes, it is not without flaws, but if you know its weaknesses and make allowances for this, then you will get very decent results at the output. If you don’t want to deal with aberrations in difficult conditions and are ready to put up with slow AF, then it’s better to overpay and take your native XF56 F / 1.2. That is, in this focal length, it seems to me, the choice is between two different compromise solutions, one of which is about 2 times cheaper, but not twice as bad. I shot on my native and on this Chinese, I didn’t see enough reasons for myself to have a native, even if the question of price is completely removed from the brackets.

Pros

Sharp in the center from F1.4, around the edges IMHO from about F4-5.6. Sharp at the level of native fuji optics, with the exception of the top-end glasses "with a red nameplate". Fast autofocus. The cooler and newer the fuji carcass, the more noticeable. Noticeably faster than the slightly outdated XF56mm 1.2.

Cons

It has been discussed many times everywhere - chromatic aberrations in backlight. They can be insignificant, but if you want to shoot portraits against the background of a light source, for example, a softbox, then it can give out such a bold contour that you can’t remove it with any quick post-processing.