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Viltrox PRO AF 85mm F1.4 FE Review | GM Quality for $600?
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Apr 18, 2025
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well here we go again Viltrox is back with a lens that competes with the very best on the platform at a price that is
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well below the competition The Viltrox Pro AF 85mm F1.4 is the first full-frame
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lens in their Pro series We've seen a couple of APS-C lenses 27mm f1.2 and a
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75mm f1.2 on APS-C but this is the first of the
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F1.4 Pro Series lens for full-frame So the Pro 85mm
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F1.4 delivers top tier optics top tier build and top tier autofocus for a
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bargain price of just $598 even less if you use the discount
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code that you can find in the description So I've been using the Sigma 85mm
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f1.4D art lens for the last four or five years I've compared it to just about
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everything and I still have it I really really like it But has my Sigma lens
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finally gotten dethroned well we'll look at that more right after a word from our
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sponsor So let's start by defining what the Pro Series is At this point we're aware that Viltrox has their premium lab
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series lens So we'll call that their G Master here since we're in Sony space And those in the case of an 85mm lens
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will come in the form of an F1.2 lens So we've already seen the 35mm f1.2 lab
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along with 135mm f1.8 And still to come is a 50mm and 85mm f1.2 However Viltrox
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is also going to hit the 35,50 and 85mm uh focal lengths with a pro f1.4 lens
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and this is the first of these So interestingly here over the last 3 months we've seen a lens from each one
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of their series at a different focal length And so we've seen the 50mm f2 from their air series We've seen the
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35mm f1.2 from the lab series And then the 85mm f1.4 from the pro series It's
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kind of a cool approach actually where they're mixing and matching and we'll probably see all of that swapped around in the next round of lenses This is a
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lens that although we're kind of now looking at what the definition of what a pro versus the lab series is I would say
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that this is a actually a really beautiful lens and in many ways the longer that I have used it actually the
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more that I've come to appreciate it I really like aspects of the lab design And from a visual perspective I have to
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admit I kind of miss that cool OLED screen that's right there in the center of the lens but on a practical level
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when it comes to the handling here I like this lens a lot And there are things that I don't love about the Lab
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series that I actually kind of prefer here on the Pro series So it is a beautifully made lens made out of
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premium materials We've got aviation grade magnesium magnesium aluminum alloy
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as for the body and the chassis That's a really tough material and it feels very
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very premium which for the price it's it's not really priced like a premium lens at all but it certainly feels like
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one Now the downside of that is that it's a it's a beautiful build but it doesn't come small or light which has
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been kind of a trend with these premium lenses from Viltrox It is 84.5
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millimeters or 3.3 in in diameter It's 108.5 millimeters or 4.27 in in length
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Now compared to the Sigma which the Sigma they did a great job of downsizing this lens So the Sigma is smaller It is
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about 2 mm narrower in diameter and it's a full 12 mm shorter in overall length
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The G Master Mark II lens is about the same size as the Viltrox almost identical identical in its overall
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specifications However the Viltrox is the heaviest of this trio It come weighs in at 800 g or 28 oz And so that
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compares to 625 g for the Sigma 642 g for the G Master Significantly heavier
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than the other two in this trio of lenses It does have a 77mm front filter
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thread which is shared with the recent 35mm f1.2 lab series lens It has a
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traditional aperture design for which I can say a big yay I like that much
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better than the approach on the lab series which interacts with the um OLED screen And beyond that it also is going
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with more of a Nikon customizable control ring type approach I don't love that on Nikon
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necessarily and I don't love it on the lab series either I prefer we'll call it the Sony approach which is just a
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traditional aperture ring And so that means that you have the option of having it in clicks with the traditional 1/3
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stop markings from f1.4 to f16 and then a hard stop between f-16 and the a or
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automatic mode What we're don't have here is an aperture iris lock Something that the GM and the Sigma do have where
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you can either lock in of that aperture ring or out of the aperture ring depending on your preference But we do
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have the ability to declick the aperture And as you can see here I was able to do
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pretty good aperture racks uh without any kind of visible steps And so that's a great feature to have there Aperture
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Iris itself has 11 rounded blades And as you probably saw in the sequence I just showed you it does a pretty decent job
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of maintaining a circular shape with the geometry as you stop the lens down Other
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features include an AFMF switch always welcome and then the customizable function button on the side which is
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whatever function you've assigned through the camera body to that particular button So always good to have
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that It has basically matches the feature set of the Sigma and the GM lens
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with the exception of that iris lock that I mentioned that both of those have and this does not We do have a
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thoroughly weather sealed body here and that starts with this cool magenta colored uh ring that's at the rear of
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the lens I think which I really like kind of that distinctive look I loved when Zeiss first came out with the blue
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rubber gasket there at the end And so I like this look as well I also appreciate the fact that I count about 10 other
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seal points throughout the lens Also present here on the lens mount is a USBC port Now the lens is also Bluetooth
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enabled and so the you have the ability to do firmware updates either through a computer with the USBC port via
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Bluetooth or you can actually do a direct connection with USBC to your phone I found this to be a little bit
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more stable in my opinion than the Bluetooth firmware updates And so that's the way that I've just been doing it is
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through the app and then a direct connection to the lens Now unlike the Lab series you don't have any
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customization options because a lot of those are centered around a secondary function button and also the LCD screen
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and whatever you can program there Outside of the aperture ring we do have a focus ring here at the front It does
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move smoothly with a nice damping I wouldn't mind it even a little bit heavy heavier But one thing I did note is that
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the focus throw is a little on the long side But I was able to still do you know smooth focus pulls and if you want it's
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it's not linear and so if you go a little bit faster you can vary up how how long those rotations are going to be
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I actually found I could do a decent job of doing repeatable pulls As you can see in this clip there is no lens base image
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stabilization or optical stabilization So you're going to have to rely as with all the all the competing lenses with
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whatever your camera body has in terms of image stabilization Now a lot of these recent
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Viltrox lenses along with a lot of Sony lenses for that matter other premium lenses do have floating elements to help
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with uplose performance So what that means is when your lens is disconnected you will feel a little bit of a clunking
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of things moving around However that goes away the moment that you mount the lens and turn the camera on no clunk
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left because those elements are now energized and won't be moving any longer
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So what that enables you to do however is to get a better a little bit better minimum focus distance You can focus
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down to 79 cm and you get a 0.13 times level of magnification On paper that's a
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little bit better than the Sigma It's hard for me to tell with them side by side And it is definitely better than
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the GM which is only a 0.11 times But what is definitely true is that you do
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get excellent uplose performance with good contrast and good detail And so those floating elements are doing their
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job A lens hood is included It's just bayonet style No locking thing on it I
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wouldn't say that the lens hood feels quite as premium as what I've seen on the Lab series lenses but you know it's
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nice enough I think the Sigma hood's a little bit nicer but um you know it's it's it's fine It does the job It does
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include a pouch like a leatherrett type pouch Overall I would say that the build quality is very nice Um I would say it's
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pretty much the same class as the Sigma and the GM lens Maybe the lens hood might be the exception with Sigma taking
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a little bit of a win there but I actually think that this is a really beautiful lens It's it's a really clean
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looking design and I really like the design language they've got going here I wouldn't mind at all if the 35mm and the
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50mm f1.4 4 Pro series follows in that same pattern So how about autofocus
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we've actually got the same style of hyper VCM focus motor in this lens than
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what we do in the lab series lenses The difference being with the lab lenses we've seen with both of the ones
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released so far that they feature either dual or quad hyper VCM focus motors
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We've only got a single one here but remember the Sigma for example is running off of a single STM focus motor
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And so this HyperVCM motor does allow you to get faster overall focus pulls
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And when I did um you know racking focus back and forth I definitely found that the Viltrox was a little bit faster than
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with the Sigma Now of course neither one of these are in the class of the GM Mark II which has exceptional you know multi
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um of their XD linear focus motors They're great focus motors And I think
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Sony does the probably the best job that I see of any brand with integrating into their premium lenses And so not quite at
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that that class but very fast Fast enough that I had no problem grabbing birds in flight at f1.4 for example I
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also found that just when trying to just kind of snap up focus at my son from being defocused to just grabbing his eye
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instantly locked on the eye And as you can see it is perfectly focused So all of that is very very good Autofocus is
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also very quiet in operation and it just quickly racks back and forth No problems
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there I shot a portrait series and I got very very good portrait results And that
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was true even when I was shooting in backlit situations shooting full body shooting closer it didn't matter I got
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perfectly focused results As we're going to see this is a really sharp lens and so I had zero problems in getting great
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looking portrait results Now one caveat with any third-party lens on Sony and
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that is that your burst rate is going to be capped at 15 frames per second And so
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that's on my Alpha 1 that I've got it on here that means I'm getting half of the overall burst speed And if you were
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shooting with an A9 Mark III it means you're at 15 frames a second instead of potentially 120 frames per second So
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obviously if you're wanting to shoot sports and you're wanting to shoot at high burst rates you may need to go with the Sony lens instead But if you're
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comparing with any of the other 85mm thirdparty lenses this is the top tier that I'm seeing right now in terms of
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the focus performance So great job Viltrox On the video side of things I
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found that video focus pulls uh were mostly smooth but I did feel like there
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was a little bit of pulsing There's a lot of speed there and it's almost like it was moving faster than what the
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algorithms were keeping up with at times And so um maybe a little less than per
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perfect there I did see some focus breathing noticeable amount of focus
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breathing So I'm not going to justify that other than to say I saw even more with the Sigma lens And so um it is an
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improvement on that But obviously you're going to get a better result with a Sony lens Again because Sony has the
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limitation that the focus breathing compensation that's available in some of their cameras it only works with Sony
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lenses not third party lenses I did find in my hand test that I had no problems with that Transitioning from my hand to
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my eye and back no problems there I also found that real world focus results were
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good For example here is I'm tracking a seabird moving along in very early pre-dawn light f1.4 no problem Focus is
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moving along excellent on that And obviously in static shots where I didn't want focus moving around it didn't move
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around It stayed nice and stable overall So good results there So how about the
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image quality i will give you a deep dive in the optical performance after that And by the way I will be releasing
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a subsequent video where I really go head-to-head in every area with the Sigma to help you to make a
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determination between these two lenses We have an optical design in this new Vtrox of 15 elements in 11 groups Almost
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all of those are exotic elements So we have three extra low dispersion nine high refractive index elements and one
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aspherical elements So that leaves only two leftover non-exotic elements in this
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optical design So they've really thrown a lot of good stuff in there You can see that the MTF chart looks really really
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good for an 85mm lens Save in the far corners There's a little bit of a dip
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What I found at f8 is you pretty much get a straight line across but it's at just a little bit lower uh level in the
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center of the frame as compared to wide open So if I line it up next to the Sigma's MTF you can see that over a lot
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of the frame the Viltrox is a little better but because they both go up and down a little bit there's some give and
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take between the two And frankly give and take is how I would quantify what I found in head-to-head comparisons
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Neither one of these lenses quite reaches the level of optimal contrast and detail that the GM Mark II does but
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the GM Mark II also has a trade-off that I'll get to in just a second I found in
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real world results as noted that it was give and take versus the Sigma And so I found that overall I think the Sigma has
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a bit higher contrast at large apertures but uh while the Sigma looked a little
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bit sharper in the mid in the center of the frame to me I preferred the mid-frame and the corners three out of
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four corners looked better on the the Pro the Viltrox Pro lens compared to the Sigma with one corner looking better on
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the Sigma So again there's give and take certainly along the way By the time you stop them down to f2.8 both these lenses
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are ridiculously sharp all across the frame I don't know that I would use sharpness as the means of
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differentiating between the two However one area where the Vtrox is very
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obviously better than the Sigma is when it comes to distortion The Sigma has kind of a weird amount of pin cushion
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distortion I felt like at the time when I reviewed it that it was what had to give in the engineers to get the lens as
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compact as they did Obviously it didn't put me off too much cuz shortly after doing the review I bought one and uh I
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have been using it ever since But the Viltrox has almost no discernable distortion I I dialed in a minus2 So a
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tiny bit of pin cushion distortion but frankly you could leave it uncorrected and never notice Also in the vignette
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department quite low for an F1.4 lens Only a plus 48 to correct the vignette Even at f1.4 and you know as you stop it
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down it'll brighten up a bit The Sigma wasn't bad either but the Vtrox is just slightly better in that regard I found
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that it wasn't like a lab level of correction for fringing There was a little bit of fringing Not really much
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on the chart but I did see some in some real world situations but very very minimal amount Tiny bit of fringing in
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bokeh highlights for example but I didn't see any of the lateral style chromatic aberrations No problems there
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I got really really excellent wide openen sharpness results Again not GM levels of contrast I don't think that
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the Viltrox has quite as high a level of contrast However as we're going to see in the rendering department that may
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actually pay off for it It's it's a pretty sweet blendness uh blend of sharpness and contrast Real world shots
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there was plenty of sharpness and plenty of contrast I never felt like I lacked in those Stopping down to f2 you'll see
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some improvement Not so much in the center of the frame but you'll see it in the mid-frame in the corners a bit By the time you get to about f2.8 8 you're
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pretty much perfect You'll get a little bit more corner sharpness at f4 and f5.6 but it's it's just it's splitting hairs
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at that point So basically from f2.8 to f8 you're pretty much getting perfect sharpness across the frame A tiny step
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back at f11 due to defraction and at f-16 a little bit more F-16 is minimum
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minimal aperture but it never gets too bad Where this lens definitely in my
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opinion exceeds the GM Mark II is in the bokeh quality I didn't love the
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rendering from the GM Mark II It's amazingly sharp And if you go back and watch that review I praised it because
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of its incredible sharpness but I did lament that I didn't feel like the rendering had that special sauce that I
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love I would say that this lens does I actually really like the Sigma as well And frankly I did lots and lots of side
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byside comparisons and it was hard for me to see a difference between the two And since I considered the Sigma to be
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awesome it means I also think that the Viltrox is awesome I also think that it
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has just a beautiful blend of sharpness and softness So sharpness where it matters softness where it matters This
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simple shot of just evergreen needles you can see it just nails both of those things I also found that the colors were
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really really good And again in doing you know head-to-head comparisons I would say that I actually slightly
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favored the Viltrox colors versus the Sigma colors And so again great job
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there There are some minor flare issues that you can see here It's not flawless but again there's nothing that was
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overly disruptive that I found either And so I would it's about what I would call an average performance for Flare
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which these days is pretty good overall So my conclusion is this This is an
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another amazing Viltrox blend of build features autofocus and optical
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performance at a fabulous price Frankly I don't hardly know how they're doing it
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Producing lenses this good and charging as relatively little for them as they do
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It's it's some kind of wizardry that I don't fully understand You have the siri
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Aurora 85mm f1.4 that you can get for a little bit cheaper You've got the
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Samyang AF85mm f1.4 Mark II that is in the same kind of price maybe a few
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dollars more But you know what but when you look at all of these sub $1,000 85mm
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options I would take the Viltrox every day of the week over any of them Yes it is a little bit bigger and heavier than
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those lenses but outside of that man there's just very little to complain about And the fact that I am seriously
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debating between which one of these lenses I'm going to use as my 85mm lens
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moving ahead it tells me that Viltrox has done a fabulous job cuz I love the Sigma and I will do that deeper dive
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with the Sigma yet to come and so you can decide for yourself Now if that wasn't enough information for you you
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can either check out my full text review that's linked in the description down below or stay tuned and we'll jump into
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a deep dive of the optics right here together Okay we'll start by taking a look at vignette and distortion You can
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see here with the uncorrected image on the left that there is just the tiniest amount of pin cushion distortion You
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really wouldn't see it unless you were looking at a grid or a chart like this very simple to correct I used a minus2
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to correct just a little bit for here in the corners There's just a there is some vignette It's not particularly heavy but
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it is present I used a plus 58 to correct for excuse me plus 48 to correct
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for what was present there So just right under two stops Taking a look here we can see that there is a bit of
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longitudinal style chromatic aberration Not strongly pronounced but little bit of magenta before a little bit of green
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afterward No big deal there What I found in real world shots is that yes there is
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a tiny bit of that green fringing that's after the plane of focus Mostly what I see out of this is it's just enough that
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there's just a little bit of blooming on some of those textures So contrast is just a little bit lower There's a
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trade-off for that that we'll come back to Here you can see that lateral chromatic aberrations are literally zero
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problem I don't see any evidence of fringing here near the edge of the frame in those transitions from black to white
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So here's the test chart that we'll examine at very high magnification This is with using a 61 megapixel uh A7R Mark
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I and we'll look at 200% magnification In the center of the frame you can see
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great detail and good not exceptionally good but very good contrast overall The
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mid-frame actually looks really quite excellent It's holding up very nicely A lot of detail and information there And
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again contrast isn't so strong that it's creating that strong wire pattern but uh
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contrast is good And you can see a nice consistency from this point to this point I like to check towards the
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corners We do see a little bit of a softening effect but we also see a very
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consistent performance in the corners all around And so it's a nice centering
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job So here we have the Sigma at f1.4 on the right You can see that the Sigma
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does have some deeper contrast levels There's a little bit more of that MAR pattern showing up which shows a little
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bit more intense contrast that's taking place in this mid-frame zone We can see
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that I would say I actually like the Viltrox detail just a little bit better
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but it is it's very very close And if we look down in this right corner I like
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the Sigma better If I look over on this side however I think the Viltrox a little bit better up in this corner
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Again I think the Viltrox is a little bit stronger Look at this versus this for example And the upper right corner I
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definitely think that the Viltrox is cleaner right out to the edge as you can see here So there's some give and take
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there It really kind of looks at depends on where you're examining in the frame Now while I think looking at the test
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charts is very informative it doesn't always give you context for real world performance So here's f1.4 for again 61
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megapixels but at 100% magnification which is the way you're actually going to look at your images at most and you
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can see that there's just a beautiful amount of detail there in the early morning light here is you know from a
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higher position shooting at f1.4 four And so obviously there's going to be minor depth of field issues even from
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this height You can see that we've got detail that goes off right into the corners Uh no problem with that Up in
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this corner it's going to be a little more impacted by depth of field but plenty plenty of detail there And if I
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cue up an f5.6 version here on the right you can see the contrast has deepened
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And so you know shadows look a little bit deeper All of that looks a little bit more intense Obviously depth of
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field is going to help in the corners and so they're going to be more positive but we can see that overall I mean it
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doesn't look bad at all at f1.4 It looks good and it obviously is going to look better at
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f5.6 So for portrait work you've got plenty at f1.4 to work with And so I'm
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going to show you a few f1.4 portrait shots You know obviously shooting full body at f1.4 four allows you to have the
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black background nicely blurred out some great subject separation but plenty of
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detail You're never going to get um you know models that are asking for more
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detail than what we are seeing uh here in these shots You can see here with a little bit more favorable light that you
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know the contrast ratio goes up a little bit more and so the detail is really fantastic but also just really gorgeous
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separation and rendering of the background here Even in a strongly back lit situation you can see detail is
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holding up really nice I mean the intense sun is right here in the frame And you can see that again um it's
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there's maybe a little less contrast in a situation like this but plenty of detail No problem there Now if we stop
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down to f1.8 I don't really see a significant improvement here I would say there's probably a little more contrast
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We'll look at one other spot to see And yeah I mean think the the brights are brighter and so that's showing a little
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bit more intense contrast You move on to f2 I would say it's just a little bit
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more pronounced in terms of the detail we're seeing You can see up here into the corner for example that again
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there's just a little bit more contrast Like all of this text looks a little inkier And so definitely some
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improvement there But again it's not like a huge huge difference From f2 to f2.8 date we see more contrast that is
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emerging there You can see here that shadows just look dark darker and so the
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textures just pop a little bit more back in the center of the frame You know it looks good Uh it doesn't necessarily
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look significantly different up here You can see however that you know all of this text is just becoming more
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pronounced by f 5.6 Really really just awesome all across the frame And this
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corner which I think was the weakest of the the four you can see it's now intensely good And so zero problems with
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resolution By f11 we'll see a bit of softening due to defraction mostly in loss of contrast And you can see that
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becomes more pronounced at f-16 which is minimum aperture Here power for the course on a high resolution body We can
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see at the minimum focus distance at f1.4 we have got good but not great
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contrast Uh plenty of detail there No problem there The plane of focus is nice
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and flat So um I'm I think it's very useful up close Gives you a look at a
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three-dimensional object at minimum focus So there's your magnification level but also the kind of contrast and
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detail that you can expect to see And I think that it's looks just fine Uh
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looking here for a moment you can see in these specular highlights that there is a there's a little bit of activity in
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there Certainly not to the onion ring level but you know definitely a little bit of an inner line A tiny bit of
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fringing around some of those specular highlights And so you know good but not exceptionally good Looking out into a
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real world shot here at minimum focus you can see that nice very very razor thin depth of field And so obviously at
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minimum focus distance in some cases you're probably going to want to stop down because that depth of field is very
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small Very nice transition to defocus Uh this image stands out as a great
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combination of really really good detail and contrast here and then a pretty soft
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rendering of what is a fairly complicated background Likewise here I really like
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the subject isolation I've intentionally put some foreground uh material here and so you can see bokeh both before and
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after the plane of focus You can see detail looks great but then that transition to defocus also great Here's
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another shot here So lots of opportunity for fringing here and loss of contrast
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And again you know contrast is good It's It's not like the GM level of contrast but I think I there's plenty there for
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most people to be perfectly happy with Uh this image I think looks great Um
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good amount of detail and contrast on that but the rendering of a fairly complex background is great And I
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actually I'm really partial to the color that comes off of this lens I think it's just really really nice And and so here
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you can see the managed to catch some of the raindrops that were falling while I was out shooting with this But I mean I
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think that image looks great So here we can see up close contrast uh in this
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really really difficult zone as far as the fringing There's a little bit there maybe a little in this transition but
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this is one of the things that I shoot to really show off for longitudinal style chromatic aberrations And frankly
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I'm not concerned with anything there You can see as we stop the aperture down that our are specular highlights they're
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getting more consistently round across the frame You can see those 11 aperture blades but again it's it's it's a pretty
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circular shape all the way down to f4 Still looking quite good Again I I think that the colors are great from the lens
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I love just you know this is a simple image but I just love the way that it comes out Colors here obviously look
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beautiful Uh I love you know this shot you know just catching all of that spray
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and foam against that rising sun But beautiful color rendition This is a raw image right out of camera There's
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nothing literally nothing that's been done to it So very very nice As far as
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flare you can see here this is wide open A little bit of a ghosting pattern a little bit of loss of contrast Stopping
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down to f11 There's your sunstar Uh it's a little busy to my eye Just too many
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blades These highbladed uh lenses they're great for uh keeping a circular
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shape Not so great for the sunstar but people aren't using 85 millimeters for that Anyway now as you get closer to the
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corner you'll get a little bit more of a stretching of that ghosting artifact and I like that less here wide open You can
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see that it's there but not quite as prominent Finally when it comes to the
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night sky star points in the center of the frame they look really really good As we pan off here to the corner you can
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see that right up in the corner you're definitely seeing some little bit of wings That's the effects of coma that's
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taking place It seems to be mostly concentrated just in the very corners But just note that uh it isn't perfect
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in that regard though you know as you can see it neither is it bad either And so as you can see this is a lens that
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just really has that great blend of sharpness and then rendering It's not
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perfectly corrected so much so that it loses all of its character but corrected enough that you're not dealing with the
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flaws either Great job Viltrox As always thanks for watching Have a great day and
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