Canon EF 85mm 85 mm F/1.8 F1.8 EOS Camera AF USM Lens

[sbuhagiar]

I'd like to have a review of this lens please. I'll appreciate to have some comments - evaluation - critique on this type of lens. Thanks.

 

[steve1984]

...tried google??

Searching for "Canon 85mm review" in google brings up all the main web reviews for this lens:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Canon+85mm+review&meta=

Also, if you want to see some image samples go to pbase:

http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/ef_85_18u

I'd like to have a review of this lens please. I'll appreciate to
have some comments - evaluation - critique on this type of lens.
Thanks.

 

[PZ]

http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/index.html

reviews for most (if not all) canon EF lenses.

 

[PhotoPhilDe]

This site provides samples and links to review sites for this lens.
http://www.pixel-peeper.com/lenses/?lens=26

I own one and I am happy with.

For portrait, you can get very swallow dof and nice bokeh. That's really impressive (like it is with the 50mm f1.4).

AF is very fast. It is a very sharp lens too with nice contrast.

Regards.
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Philippe

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[Danny Dukes]

When the photo turns out bad, it is certainly not the 85mm that is to blame...

one from today with the 85 @ f2

 

[TheVoIP]

I had used both EF85 f1.8 as well as its brother EF100 f2 for a couple of years.

My experinces is a bit differences from most forummers here as I found the 100 f2 is slightly better, because I do not see the purple lines when pictures has stronger light source.

Both are fantastic lenses, not heavy (not light either), super fast in autofocusing and most importantly will get you very high success rate of in-focus pictures even shot at wide open. My experince is near to 10/10 success rate.

As most has noticed that its only complaitable weakness of such lenses is.... That's no red ring on it. Thus it is not a L lense.

If you can live with a lense without the Red L ring, then go for it. It is one damn fine lense.

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EOS 30D, EOS 40D, EFS17-55 f2.8 USM IS, EF17-40 f4 USM L, EF70-200 f2.8 USM L, EF100-400 f4.5~5.6 L IS, EF50 f1.4, EF85 f1.2 USM L II, ST2 & 580EX II

 

[TheVoIP]

I love the picture!

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EOS 30D, EOS 40D, EFS17-55 f2.8 USM IS, EF17-40 f4 USM L, EF70-200 f2.8 USM L, EF100-400 f4.5~5.6 L IS, EF50 f1.4, EF85 f1.2 USM L II, ST2 & 580EX II

 

[Danny Dukes]

I guess the only compaint I have with the 85mm is the focusing distance. The purple fringing has never really been somethin that has been concern, it is not really noticable when printed

 

[abnorm]

Amazing lens for portraits on both cropped and full frame cameras. For none portrait work, like isolated subjects, I found it a little too long on 30D. Bokeh is awesome on this lens. Much better then anything in the price range. The only issue is purple fringing on high contrast shots, when used at high apertures. This can be delt by using some raw converters.
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