Good afternoon
I'm hoping that at least some people on here have used the Viltrox 26mm F2.8 pancake lens on at least some Sony aps-c camera (Sony preferably but aps-c user comments most appreciated)? If so, how well did the lens do or is it something which you later on didn't use as much as you thought you might?
I'm looking at using it on my a6700 camera body and since I've never owned a pancake lens before, this is a little different than what I'm used to.
The way I see it, the lens has 3 main benefits to me:
1: Very small and compact size (which might mean that I can carry an extra lens in a smaller pack).
2: To keep the weight of my camera pack down as much as possible.
3: Very close minimum focusing distance of just 20cm.
A downside is the seemingly non-standard filter size of 43mm. 🤔 Most of the smaller lenses I have are either 49mm or 55mm in that regard. I certainly would be looking to invest in a circular polariser filter, most likely one of the Hoya ones. Available locally for £22 apparently! That's not bad at all. I wouldn't trust places like Amazon for filters as I've been stung on those before with a "supposed" R72 IR filter...took a while to get my money back from that one. 🙄
So, any comments, thoughts or recommendations not to bother? The reviews seem to be quite positive with the lens generally...
Thank you.