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.

Which Film Simulation Would You Like to Get Next?

We have shared the rumor that Fujifilm will launch a new film simulation on September 12.

So the question now is: which film would you like to get on Fujifilm cameras in digital format with the next film simulation*?

It does not have to be an original Fujifilm film stock, but it can be inspired by film of any brand.

Just note that if Fujifilm would use a competitors’ film stock as base for the new film simulations, for legal reasons they  would change the name into something else.

For example, Classic Chrome is inspired by Kodak emulsions as Fuji insiders explained us here.

So, feel free to let us know in the comments down below what you’d like to see next.

*usually film simulations are inspired by film emulsions (Velvia & Co), or by certain photographic movements, as it was the case for the “American New Color” inspiration for Nostalgic Negative (full story here).

 

Voigtländer NOKTON 50mm F1.2 to be Released September 7

Back on August 10 Cosina announced the Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1.2 coming in September.

Well, now Cosina has given us a precise date: the release will be on September 7.

The Japanese website asobinet suggested a price of 88,020 yen for this lens (600 USD).

Voigtländer lenses for Fujifilm X mount with electronic contacts:

via Cosina

Tokina atm-x f/1.4 Fujifilm X Mount lenses Discontinued

The Tokina atx-m X mount trinity is starting to get marked as discontinued at overseas stores as spotted by the Japanese website asobinet.

Being basically just clones of these Viltrox lenses just at a higher price, I never really gave those Tokina lenses much chances to sell well.

However, there is one Tokina APS-C mirrorless lens that I believe could be a big hit among the Fujifilm X community: this one!

I hope Tokina won’t be demotivated by the 23/33/56 failure and will try to offer this little beautiful lens also for X mount., although so far there are no rumors about it at all (sadly).