Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 LAB Should Come This Quarter also for Fujifilm X Mount says Viltrox

When Viltrox published their last roadmap, they told us which lenses would come for which mounts in 2024, except for one lens: the Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 LAB lens.

Viltrox did not specify on their roadmap for which mounts they plan to launch the Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 LAB.

But now, after sharing yet another image of the Viltrox 135mm f/1.8 LAB on their Chinese social media, when asked by users if they plan to release it also for X mount, Viltrox said this:

Usually it comes with Fuji mount.

This definitely makes hope we will get it also for X mount, but for I will formulate it more carefully and tell you that it “should” come, because the answer they gave was not a clear “yes” but a “usually it comes for Fuji X”. It’s possible also that something got lost in google translation, though, and that in original Chinese it is a more solid “yes”.

Viltrox has also been asked when it would  come, and they answered “this quarter”, as you can see from this screenshot. So that would mean the announcement should happen any day now.

The new Viltrox LAB series is said to become their new flagship series of lenses, optically superior even to their PRO series of lenses.

Viltrox Roadmap

Viltrox Lens Roadmap 2024 Released

A couple of times a year, Viltrox releases a lens roadmap. And now we got the first one for 2024.

On the list we can see:

So far nothing surprising, as these are lenses that have already been teased since a long time and in some cases we could also see the first images of those lenses.

In the past, Viltrox has also teased zoom lenses coming, but so far they have not added any on the roadmap.

All Viltrox X mount AF lenses currently available:

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