Hi, thanks for this review :) I just bought the Nikon Z8 and this 40mm f2.5, I found that the autofocus was slow and when my subject runs towards me it becomes blurry and it takes time to come back, it's a good lens but it has these limits in video. Can you confirm that it's not the fault of my settings and that this AF is slow? My settings is AF-F, auto or people, zone wide. it does the eyes tracking correctly but the image is blurry unless I am static.
Viltrox should have made it a pancake, or super sharp, or super fast, or something that they would be able to compete with Nikon 40/2, which Nikon already selling at $226. You can't compete on price alone especially when it's already so low.
This lens was definitely unnecessary… they need to focus on making Full Frame f1.2 lenses at half the price of Nikon. If they did that they would be killing it right now. Their 75mm f1.2 is really good but it’s a DX lens… if they can make the quality of the 75mm 1.2 in 20, 24, 35, 50 and 85 FX then they would steal a lot of Nikons lens revenue.
Hi, thanks for this review :) I just bought the Nikon Z8 and this 40mm f2.5, I found that the autofocus was slow and when my subject runs towards me it becomes blurry and it takes time to come back, it's a good lens but it has these limits in video. Can you confirm that it's not the fault of my settings and that this AF is slow? My settings is AF-F, auto or people, zone wide.
it does the eyes tracking correctly but the image is blurry unless I am static.
Viltrox should have made it a pancake, or super sharp, or super fast, or something that they would be able to compete with Nikon 40/2, which Nikon already selling at $226. You can't compete on price alone especially when it's already so low.
This lens was definitely unnecessary… they need to focus on making Full Frame f1.2 lenses at half the price of Nikon. If they did that they would be killing it right now. Their 75mm f1.2 is really good but it’s a DX lens… if they can make the quality of the 75mm 1.2 in 20, 24, 35, 50 and 85 FX then they would steal a lot of Nikons lens revenue.