Fuji did a good move opening the mount. Now there are great third party lenses for a very good price and the Fujifilm ecosystem is more attractive.

Viltrox 27 and 75 are die hard lenses! Must buy for speed and sharpness with a shallower depth of field without breaking the bank for FF.

Nice review! Man, if I was still doing pro photo/video work I'd be stoked about this lens. I'm 100% on the train where I do photography for fun now, and like all the retro/rangefinder-style cameras fuji makes. I don't remember how long ago you made that video Dee, but I agreed with you then, and still to this day that the x-pro3 is fuji's best camera ever. I have no doubt that this viltrox lens is excellent, but I'm into the small and tiny lenses. I honestly hate that fuji updated all of their lenses to be bigger and designed for bigger more conventional mirrorless camera bodies. I swear if I did pro work again, I might get back on sony or lumix since I can get fullframe counter parts (at similar sizes too) at similar prices I know it's not just me haha, I want fuji's brand to be all about making photography fun again. Beautifully designed smaller camera bodies, with small + fast lenses to go with them. I understand that adding an autofocus motor usually means bigger lens sizes, but man I know they can eventually do it/I just feel it's nowhere on fuji's or any 3rd party manufacturer's road map. If that's the case I'm sticking to my voigtlander 1.2 x-mount trio and will stick to MF the rest of my life lol. I say bring on the xpros, x100s, xe's, tiny leanses ... Heck I'd even say bring on the Instax Evo's. Fuji = fun +functional +fashionable and I hope they stay that way

Viltrox coming in with the heat! Love that with the X-mount opening up, there’s so many excellent 1st and 3rd party options for people to use. Great video 🤝

Fujifilm has a 27mm 2.8 pancake lens, so, in theory, they have already covered this focal length; it may not be 1.2, but it's much lighter and, in my opinion, also takes beautiful photos. 😊

Couldn’t agree with you more! The 27mm f1.2 is my favorite lens right now and is stapled to my X-T5. The Fuji system is really rounding out well with a fantastic lineup of new LM lenses and phenomenal third party choices like this lens and the Voigtlander Norton 35mm f0.9.

Wow - great timing. I've just purchased this lens and am looking forward to putting it through its paces - got great expectations too, judging by the reviews I've seen so far.

Back again with another banger! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I was hoping you'd make a video on this one! And you did not disappoint! Thanks for sharing your thoughts as always! 🙏🏻 I've been bouncing between 23mm and 35mm (APS-C) finding the first to wide and the latter to tele so I've been considering something in-between for a while. Partly due to how I remember really loving the Panasonic 20mm back in the day, and my wife's 40mm for her Canon DSLR. I also been wanting faster glass for almost a decade now (I use the f2 ones), but the 1.4 always seemed kinda expensive to me. This lens seem to maybe fix that in one fell swoop. I've also sometimes struggled in low light when doing events (I'm not pro, so that's fine), but this seem like a price accessible way for me to be able to do lower light events. Regarding Fuji's lens focus: Lens makers have to carefully choose which kinds of lenses to make and companies in different situations have to make different choices. Fujifilm not only have to develop lenses, but their entire camera-lens ecosystem, this is probably partly why their lenses are so expensive. As for why they don't make the 1.2 lenses, the value proposition of X system for them is the small size, and their 1.4 are still quite compact compared to the competition. I also want to defend their f2 line: who else makes such high quality lenses that are in that size class? Speaking of, if there's a hole I think it might make more sense for Fuji to fill is to make a smaller tele lens that's longer than 50mm, like a 70mm f2.8, and I honestly *only* see Fujifilm being willing to make that. For Viltrox or Sigma they wouldn't consider such a ”slow” aperture not impressive enough. Moreover… the official lens makers also can't make every single focal length (there's a opportunity cost at play here), so they've standardised on some focals. The 40mm equiv focal lengths is one that is rarely made. Sony only made their 40mm a few years ago, with the whole being plugged by others (yes, including Sigma). Same situation with Olympus/OM System. In that regard I think Viltrox is doing something very smart by making not only something cheap, but something truly unique!

My GUY. So so good, hey? Loved the shots I got with this when I borrowed it.

Great video, Dee. I bought the Viltrox 13mm 1.4 and love it. I also bought the Fuji 23mm 1.4 for the LM, but I’m wondering why I didn’t consider this 27mm. 🤔

I have been using here in the dark season for night street Photography with wonderful results. So happy to be the owner of such tool. Not the last time that I will look in Viltrox direction 👍🤩

I have the 13 & 75, the 27 will be coming soon!!! I love they are offering non traditional focal mm, I would love a 50mm 1.2 PRO as the next one!

The lens looks great!

The sharpness in photos look amazing.

Terrific review! Looks like a winner for the price. I’m a life long Bears fan and I say GO LIONS!!!

I was hoping you would have some thoughts on this lens, your pragmatic approach and great videos are class! I’m a new hobbyist Fuji shooter with an XT-3, kit lens and adapted cheap canon glass I kept when I switched. Over time I was thinking to pick up the 23 f2 for its weather sealing and size and the old 35mm f1.4 as a nice wee two lens walk around kit. I keep getting drawn back to thinking about getting the Viltrox though as a one lens do it all solution. Used in the U.k. I could get the two Fujis for £650 - £700 ish and the Viltrox for £400 - £450 new. Being a working class Joe that’s a chunk of change to me. Any thoughts on this conundrum?

This lens is great. Pair it with a 56 1.2 on a dual camera setup for concerts and weddings, and it performs amazingly well

Its getting hard to ignore this lens. I've been living at 27mm for some time now, starting with Fujifilm's f/2.8 and now Voightlander's f/2 manual focus lens. A 40mm Voightlander lives on my Nikon DSLR, so I am completely immersed in this angle of view. Too many reviews are praising this lens, so I might have to give it a go.

GO LIONS !!! Dope video too

I have this lens and agree that it’s very impressive, I don’t feel I have a use for the 75mm pro but I’m hoping Viltrox will release a 56mm f1.2 pro!

I would love a Viltrxo Pro 40mm f1.2 to complement the 27 and 75mm. Tell them to make it for me!😊

It's one of the best lenses you can buy for the new Fujifilm X cameras.

Looking forward to Sirui’s 75mm 1.2. I’ll take the chromatic aberration for the essentially nonexistent breathing. That’s because I’m a video guy though lol

GO MOTOR CITY KITTIES! (*nice review, too.)

Between this one or the Fuji 33mm… which?

Fuji should really made first a new 18mm than the other stuff #fujifilm

I’m looking at their Viltrox 28mm F1.8 for Sony. No one else is making that lens. Good for Viltrox.

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You wanna review my Ricoh griiix?

Go Lions!

Sorry about those Lions :(

is it me or the lenses are getting bigger every day ? 😂 thanks for making this video.

Thank God Fujifilm didn't make it, it would have cost two to Three time what it costs from Viltrox.