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Is the 85mm compromise wirth it?

Started Jul 9, 2020 | Polls thread
OP panther fan Contributing Member • Posts: 802
Re: Is the 85mm compromise wirth it?

MayaTlab0 wrote:

panther fan wrote:

I think it is pretty clear that Canon is positioning the 85mm F2 against the competing 85mm F1.8 options while wanting to provide additional versatility by making it a stabilized macro. It seems they have made some smaller sacrifices to get there

-1/3rd of a stop less light

I don't have much hope but if vignetting is low enough and equivalent at f2 to what the f1.8 options have at f2 this might not be that visible in actual photos.

-slightly higher weight

And one big one:

-External "whole unit" focus, which is likely not fast and expectedly not silent

Is that a welcome tradeoff

Another potential trade-off is that macro lenses tend to be quite well corrected for spherical aberration and focus shift,

To be fair the competition is also pretty well corrected there. So I don't think focus shift will be a huge differentiator

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