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New Canon 85mm f/1.2 L Mk II Lens - some questions, please help

Started Oct 8, 2018 | Discussions thread
apersson850 Senior Member • Posts: 2,078
Re: New Canon 85mm f/1.2 L Mk II Lens - some questions, please help

Personal preferences is one thing, and they are, by definition, personal.

But if you just look at optical performance, then the EF 85 mm f/1.4L IS USM beats its brother, the EF 85 mm f/1.2L II USM, without a doubt. Add the stabilizer and the significantly faster focus operation to that, and the f/1.2 is trailing far behind. It's obviously better at one thing, though, and that's opening up to f/1.2.

Quantifying the bokeh is very difficult, so I'll refrain from that.

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Anders

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