Review on VILTROX 85mm f1.8 Mark II AF Auto Lens for Fuji X Mount - Ideal Portrait Fixed Focus Lens for Fujifilm Fuji X Series Cameras X-T3 X-T2 X-T30 X-T20 X-T10 X-T100 X-PRO2 by Leah Ramirez

I have a number of Fuji and Viltrox lenses and I like them all for different reasons. This lens is an excellent wide-open telephoto for portraits and a good landscape and wildlife lens from f/3.2-11. It captures and captures color and light like a great vintage retro lens. People generally like portrait lenses that are a bit soft, with good bokeh, excellent object separation and colors. The Viltrox 85 mm has it all. This is the equivalent of APS-C 135mm and covers some landscapes and large animals at close range. It's a very sharp lens, but its perceived softness and vignetting between f/1.8 and f/2.2 isn't great for astrophotography, where you need light and a slightly longer lens. This lens has some fringing at 'wide aperture' in 'very bright' light, but this shouldn't affect portraits taken in controlled conditions and you'll still get to f/2.8 or 5.6 in very bright light opened You don't have an ND filter. In real life situations edging doesn't really matter if you think the post processing will be removed. Longitudinal chromatic aberration on the wide open Viltrox 85mm in "very bright" highly contrasting white and black conditions like a lying book is clearly visible, but the same is true to a lesser extent for the Fuji 90mm f2, most portrait lenses wide open in "Very bright" light has this problem, but in real life it's easy to avoid. Most LaCAs only need a minute to correct a report. My test image linked to this post was taken in bright light with a large aperture; Notice the very slight softness and color fringing when looking at the 300% pixels on a nearby flower, which I think is a desirable level of softness for a wide-open aperture portrait. The color fringes are hardly perceptible, and nobody notices this in low-contrast shots of a person. The very slight softness gets rid of a lot of blemishes, which is good if you're not looking for the rougher cowboy look you might get with some lenses. Reducing the aperture to f/2.8 makes the test image very sharp and clear at f/4+. This is an excellent lens.