Originally posted by Benz3ne That looks like a wicked combo from the photos you've showcased with it.
Apparently Viltrox are cobbling together a 24mm f/1.8 for Sony which I'm quite curious about...
It does seem to be working very well. That extra stop over the Fujinon f/2 means that I can isolate a subject at 23mm that I previously couldn't, I'd have needed to go to the 35mm f/1.4. I still prefer the 35mm FOV overall and Fuji's 35/1.4 is a magical lens, but the extra speed means that 23mm isn't such a compromise if I go out with only one lens.
The only real negative of the lens is the very noticeable vignette wide open. I like a bit of vignette in many photos (and sometimes add an artificial one) but I've never had a lens before where it was so strong it bothered me. This one does a little.
I hadn't heard of that 24mm. I'm in a Viltrox group in FB and they keep mentioning a 13mm f/1.4 that's due out. While I'm dubious of any real advantage to f/1.4 at that focal length for what I do, the widest native X lens I have is 18mm so something wider would be handy sometimes, though the existing 16mm f/2.8 would be better for general use and is a reasonable price.
Speaking of that FB group, a few days ago I posted something there a few days ago:
There seem to be a lot of people complaining in this group that their Fuji cameras don't work when a Viltrox lens is mounted. Are the lenses prone to fault or is it that the group attracts people looking to solve their problems? Or perhaps people are installing the wrong firmware? It's got me a little worried.
I think this is mostly due to people updating their firmware incorrectly. It's a process that isn't properly documented anywhere by Viltrox themselves and the page to download the appropriate file is just a list, with everything together - lenses, different mounts, different versions of lenses. It would be very easy to download the firmware for your lens in another mount, or a different lens entirely.