Viltrox 35mm F1.2 Lab for Z mount: sample gallery and impressions

When you use DPReview links to buy products, the site may earn a commission. Nikon Z8 | Viltrox AF 35mm F1.2 Lab | F5.6 | 1/800 sec | ISO 64Photo: Mitchell Clark Late last year, Viltrox announced that it was bringing its 35mm F1.2 Lab lens to Nikon's Z mount. Given that the company pitches its Lab lenses as including "flagship optical design," we're happy we got the opportunity to test one out in a variety of conditions. Image quality Nikon Z8 | Viltrox AF 35mm F1.2 Lab | F1.8 | 1/125 sec | ISO 64 Wide-open, we found that the 35mm F1.2 Lab has good levels of sharpness in the center, and does a decent job at maintaining that to the edges. It's not quite as sharp as the best F1.2 optics we've seen, but for the price, it's hard to complain about the performance of our copy. Vignetting is also around what we'd expect for an F1.2 lens, almost entirely clearing up around F4. I find the lens' out-of-focus rendering to be quite pleasing, but at F1.2, the cat's eye effect on th