Viltrox AF 20mm f/2.8 Air: Again. What The Heck, Viltrox?
Subtitle: This Lens Is Far Better Than It Has Any Business Being.
The same thing I said of the two prior Viltrox Air lenses.
All was well. But I recently traded a lens that left me with a focal length gap between 14mm and 28mm…
The horror.
This won’t do… That is my excuse anyway. A self-created situation for sure.
Lucky for me, Viltrox has just the lens between the two I currently have.
Based on the prior two lenses, my expectations were high.They were not good lenses “for their price”. They were good lenses, full stop. And I expected no less with the 20mm.
Spoiler alert: It is also a great lens requiring no qualifiers.
The pictures.
Thoughts.
A fantastic lens.
Sidebar: Updates via the USB-C port are done differently than what I have seen before. There is no app needed. You do not use the camera or the SD card. You cannot see the lens firmware version on the camera. The lens is self contained software wise. You download the update to the computer, unzip the folder, copy the DAT file to the lens’ root folder and the lens updates itself. Different, but quite easy.
And finally, a question I imagine being asked.
Do I recommend this lens?
Yes.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 