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Viltrox 13mm for astro, done better? And quite possibly a thumbs up

Started 2 months ago | Discussions thread
zurubi Contributing Member • Posts: 868
Re: Viltrox 13mm for astro, done better? And quite possibly a thumbs up

I'm on the fence on this lens hoping that it'll do better than the Rokinon 12mm. The absolutely best I have now is a Sony a7r3 with a Batis 18mm (equivalent to 12mm on APS-C). But now that I upgraded to the X-T5, i'd love to find a lens that comes close to that Batis; also, not carrying 2 bodies would be nice. I mostly stack but bought a small tracker last year.

I did try the 16-55mm mounted on the tracker and it was disappointing. 16mm is also too long for the kind of astro shots I like to do.

Did you try several copies, or was this your 1st lens you got? I wonder how is the copy variation with this lens.

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Sony a7R III Fujifilm X-T5 Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS Samyang 12mm F2.0 NCS CS Fujifilm 16-55mm F2.8R LM WR +6 more
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