Viltrox Future Fujifilm X Lenses: Zoom Lenses, 20mmF4.5, 135mmF1.8 Lab Series (better than Pro Series)
Richard Wong flew to China to meet up with the Viltrox management.
The first question he makes to marketing director Mandy Lee (which I met back in 2018 at photokina) was if they plan to release fast zoom lenses for the Fujifilm X mount.
The answer was:
We will have zoom lenses, but we are not sure about the focal length yet. But we have zoom lenses in our plans.
What we are sure is that we will have Cine zoom lenses, for example 22-220mm, 30-300mm and 42-420 cine zoom [manual focus] coming at the end of this year maybe.
We have plans for zoom lenses for stills, but those still need some time.
Viltrox mentions also a compact lens, but I am not sure if they mean APS-C or FF lenses. From the talk it seems like an APS-C lens, but Richard wrote “FF” in the video.
- 20mm f/4.5 autofocus lens (small and affordable pancake lens, about $150 but image quality superior to the 23, 33 and 56mm APS-C series)
When asked if Viltrox plans to launch a competitor to the Fujinon XF200mm f/2, hence a longer prime lens, Viltrox gives us this answer:
- 135mm f/1.8 Lab Series coming by the end of 2023. Lab Series image quality and performance will be higher than the Pro series
Also in this case, the question is clearly about Fujifilm APS-C lenses, and Mandy Lee answers to that, but when asked later on if that’s for Full Frame, Mandy says “yes”. Then she gets asked if it will come also for Fujifilm X mount, and she just says “Yeah”.
So to me this sounds as if both, the 20mm f/4.5 and 135mm f/1.8 will come for several mounts in APS-C and FF format.