Viltrox: Full-frame anamorphics

IN EARLY 2023, Viltrox, a relatively new brand to the film industry, introduced its Epic series of cinema lenses. The line-up consists of the 35, 50 and 75mm T2.0 1.33X full-frame anamorphic prime cine lenses. Currently in PL mount, there are plans to release lenses for L- and E-mount in August.

Viltrox has been manufacturing still photo lenses for six years and has also been a leading company for lens-mount adapters since 2009.

As a foray into cinema optics, the Epic series boasts excellent optical design, delivering vivid, detailed performance all across the frame.

The lenses provide delicate and soft image performance, presenting vintage charm, pleasant skin-colour expression and a unique picture texture. Its consistent tone performance makes the range perfect for film creation.

With a refined optical design, the lenses maintain a constant squeeze factor of 1.33x, ensuring a consistent distortion ratio from near to far. They produce blue streaks that appear natural and not overly artificial.

Designed with a multi-blade structure, these optics have a constant aperture of T2.0, delivering pleasant and beautiful bokeh with vivid oval spots. The transition between in-focus and out-of-focus areas is incredibly smooth and natural, granting impressive expression.

All lenses in the Epic series share the same character, gear-position design and centre of gravity, eliminating the need for repeated adjustments. They also have the same colour performance – simplifying the post-processing of colour modulation – and exhibit minimal barrel distortion, with no signs of chromatic aberration.

Furthermore, the design of the optics minimises the angle-of-view change when adjusting focus, resulting in a practically unnoticeable breathing effect.