Viltrox launches silver Air series lenses for Fujifilm X-mount from £165

Viltrox has released silver versions of three of its compact Air-series autofocus primes for Fujifilm X-mount: the AF 9mm f/2.8, AF 15mm f/1.7 and AF 25mm f/1.7. The optics are unchanged — this is a cosmetic release — but on Fujifilm bodies that is rather more relevant than it sounds. The lenses are available through the Viltrox store and Amazon. Fujifilm’s X-mount cameras are among the few modern systems where a silver-and-black finish is genuinely common, and anyone who has paired a silver X-T5 or X-E5 with an all-black third-party lens knows the aesthetic mismatch is real. First-party XF lenses are often offered in silver for exactly this reason, and until now the budget third-party alternative meant accepting black. That is a small thing, but it is precisely the sort of small thing Fujifilm owners care about. The Air series is Viltrox’s lightweight, affordable line, designed to keep size and...