VILTROX 28mm f4.5 Pancake Lens for Sony E, Auto Focus 28mm f/4.5 FE Chips-Size Ultra-Thin Full Frame Lens for Sony E Mount

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 34 ratings

Price: 84.15

Last update: 12-22-2024


About this item

Compact Prime Lens: The VILTROX 28mm f4.5 FE lens is a compact, lightweight prime lens designed for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras. 60.3mm in diameter and 15.3mm thick, and weighs only about 60g.
Wide-Angle Perspective: With a 28mm focal length, this lens offers a versatile wide-angle perspective, ideal for landscapes, architecture, and environmental portraits.
Precise Focusing: The lens features a multi-layer coating that minimizes ghosting and flare, ensuring sharp and clear images.
USB Upgrade Port: The lens is equipped with a USB upgrade port, creating more opportunities for compatibility with the continuously evolving E-mount cameras.
Durable Construction: Crafted with a metal lens barrel, this lens is built to withstand the rigors of daily use and travel.
Inbuilt Lens Cap: The lens is protected via an inbuilt lens cap that you slide to open and close.

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Top reviews from the United States

s
5.0 out of 5 stars This lens is wild and I love it
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2024
What this lens lacks in features it makes up for in fun and simplicity. I wish this lens had a lot of things like a variable aperture, manual focus ring, or better close focusing. However, considering it's about the size of a body cap I can't imagine how they would pull any of that off without making it bigger and that would just ruin the experience.

What's great:
The small size is absolutely amazing. The image quality is great. The autofocus is sufficient, it's no GM but it works well.

What could be better:
The lens is extremely sensitive to flare and haze, you have to be extremely mindful where your light sources are. The lever to open the lens sticks out a little too much and has gotten snagged when placing in a camera bag and opened the lens.

Overall I would highly recommend the Viltrox 28 f4.5, this thing is coming with me everywhere! There is no reason not to have one of these as a fancy body cap with an autofocus skylight!
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s
5.0 out of 5 stars This lens is wild and I love it
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2024
What this lens lacks in features it makes up for in fun and simplicity. I wish this lens had a lot of things like a variable aperture, manual focus ring, or better close focusing. However, considering it's about the size of a body cap I can't imagine how they would pull any of that off without making it bigger and that would just ruin the experience.

What's great:
The small size is absolutely amazing. The image quality is great. The autofocus is sufficient, it's no GM but it works well.

What could be better:
The lens is extremely sensitive to flare and haze, you have to be extremely mindful where your light sources are. The lever to open the lens sticks out a little too much and has gotten snagged when placing in a camera bag and opened the lens.

Overall I would highly recommend the Viltrox 28 f4.5, this thing is coming with me everywhere! There is no reason not to have one of these as a fancy body cap with an autofocus skylight!
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Effdub Wheezy
4.0 out of 5 stars Small and good image quality, but not without some flaws
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024
My thoughts on the lens after having tested on an A7III and A7C:

Overall image quality is rather good, especially in the middle third of the frame, although it's not terrible at the edges either. It's quite sharp, actually. And chromatic aberration is remarkably well controlled. Flair, however, is moderately atrocious in certain shooting situations. I think a hood would help with this, but there's no direct way to mount a hood. Not having the option to manual focus is also kind of an issue for me, but at the price point I'm willing to overlook this.

AF works, but it is rather slow and very antiquated. In AF-S mode, it racks focus all the way to infinity (or back to minimum focus distance) and then tries to find the focal point. It is accurate most of the time (~80%) but does miss here and there. Interestingly, it works far better in my testing in AF-C mode, where it exhibits far less "hunting" and seems to be more responsive and accurate.

For $99 it's a total banger. Sure, you can't attach a filter or hood or manually focus, but your get a tiny lens that has AF and surprisingly good sharpness and color rendering. I could totally see this being a good street lens, especially if you post-crop a bit to get a more intimate FOV (although frankly I shoot a lot of street at 28mm).
Jaison
5.0 out of 5 stars Great lens, buy it
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024
Great Little lens. It basically turns your full frame camera into a pocket size point and shoot. It's great to bring with you traveling. Autofocus works great, it's a very good value for the money
M. Cohen
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2024
I bought this lens based on reviews I read.
I've used a few pancake lens in the past, most recently one from 7artisans. While I've not been all that impressed with their quality, it was generally acceptable and was a fair trade-off for the smallness of the lens.
That's pretty much changed with this Viltrox lens. First of all, I did not do any pixel peeping, but I did enlarge every image I took on the computer screen. To my surprise, there was a sharpness I have not seen with previous pancake lenses I've shot with. Contrast was good; I didn't see any color fringing (but other than shooting a few white labels with black lettering, I'd say my test shots didn't really test for this).
Overall, I'm happy with this lens. Autofocus is quicker than I'd expected. Lens construction is on par with full-sized Viltrox (and other) lenses I have. I expect this lens will see quite a bit of use.
JMA
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun To Work Around It’s Limitations
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2024
It’s a super portable/pocketable FF auto focus lens for $99, that is a great bargain for what you get. Yes it’s not without its limitations but that’s the fun part. It’s fun to shoot with just what you’re given. If you’re willing to do that, this lens is a great addition to your gear. Only reason I deducted a star is it’s not quite suitable for Slog3 shooting for video. The high ISO requirement makes an ND filter mandatory. Again, gotta figure out a way around this but a filter thread would have been nice. Go get it! At the very least it’s a great lens for travel, if you want to go light.
Pahaku Ewing
2.0 out of 5 stars Only good thing is it's size
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2024
the auto focus is soooo hard to get focus with. I know it's suposed to look like a toy polaroid with the crazy flare and what not, but focus is focus. when you it hits, the infocus is sharp. sharper than I thought it'd be, but it does not what catch your talent in the eyes.
Seth
5.0 out of 5 stars A body cover that takes photos
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2024
What a terrific little lens. It won’t win any prices for the best image quality ever but for what it costs and the utility it provides it is a fantastic deal. Auto focus is reasonable and image quality is satisfactory on my Sony. I also really like the little switch that lets you protect the lens. When you just want a little walk around, I’m thinking this is gonna be great
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Sharp and fasy focus
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2024
Perfect for the A7II and APSC cameras

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