As a photographer, every now and again you find a lens that really surprises you. For me, one of the biggest (and most pleasant) surprises was the Viltrox 85mm f.1.8 for Nikon Z mount - a lens that costs just $399 / £282 / AU$769 brand new.
Reading reviews, I knew that this lens would be good but I was slightly sceptical in terms of just how good. Third-party lenses often have the reputation of being slow to focus, of being slightly unrefined, and of having idiosyncratic image quality. Viltrox was one of the first third-party companies to offer autofocusing lenses on the Z mount too, so I wasn’t expecting the company to hit it out of the park on its first try.
