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Versatile lens highly recommended for first prime.

Started Feb 27, 2015 | User reviews thread
Thermidor Contributing Member • Posts: 751
Re: Versatile lens highly recommended for first prime.

rebel99 wrote:

i have lots of respect for my canon 85 f1.8 lens. it is fast in every way, sharp, light weight, less money, and a great value. it has a bit of CA but can be taken care of in PP. there is nothing not to like about this lens

syd

I have this lens, and I think it's great when it works right, but it's not a lens to get on an entry or consumer level body. You need a body with micro focus adjustments as the lens has a bad habit of front focusing my shots at wide apertures. The shots are still decent for desktop or small prints, but it's not perfectly focused. I'm not a pixel peeper and I don't mind slightly  out of focus shots, but for commercial shoots, it can look really bad when half my shots taken with this lens aren't perfectly focused.

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