Viltrox has ambitious plans: New LAB super pro lens series coming!

Richard Wong visited the Viltrox  headquarter. Some of the highlights about their future products:

These three lenses will be big and from what I understood FF lenses. They will be announced by end 2023.

  • 22-220mm cine lens (manual focusing)
  • 30-300mm cine lens (manual focusing)
  • 42-420mm cine lens (manual focusing)

Very affordable 20mm pancake around $150. But performance will be high. More smaller lenses will be coming in future.

  • 20mm f/4.5 pancake autofocus Full Frame lens

New LAB series will launch soon:

  • 135mm f/1.8 autofocus Full Frame E-mount lens (First of the LAB series)
  • 24/35/50mm f/1.4 autofocus Full Frame E-mount LAB lenses coming later

The LAB series will be something like the OTUS line at Zeiss. The optical performance will be higher than the PRO series of Viltrox.

Sony announced the new A7cII, A7cR and 16-35GMII

Preorders:
Sony A7cII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
Sony A7cR at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.
16-35GMII at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK. Sony AUS.

Reviews and hands-on:
Explora. 16-35GMII review by Albert Dros. 16-35GMII review by Michael Schaake. Initial A7cR review at Dpreview. Initial A7cII review at Dpreview. 16-35GMII hands-on at Adorama. Sony A7c cameras hands-on at Adorama.

Youtube reviews:

Fujifilm GFX100II specs leaked by Fujirumors

Fujirumors spilled out a lot of details about the new camera coming at the X Summit on September 12:

Meike displayed a new 55mm f/1.4 autofocus lens

At the BIRTV2023 show in China Meike displayed the prototype of a new 55mm f/1.4 autofocus APS-C lens. This is the Fuji X-mount version but a native Sony E and Nikon Z mount option will be available too.

No info yet about exact pricing and release date.