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Pros:Optical and construction quality, stabilizer, stm. Price.
Cons:I do not find any elements of negative criticism.
Opinion:I have had it for three days and I can appreciate its qualities. Compact, robust, aesthetically beautiful lens. Well balanced as it grips. Optically it is excellent at all openings and at all distances. The stm motor is efficient, the focus smooth, it remains a bit slow compared to the usm, but it is in its nature, still quite fast. At close range (not really macro) you can not expect to photograph in AF: technically it is not advisable. Does anyone consider it heavy? Of course, it is stabilized!! And what efficiency the stabilizer!! Plastic?? Find me a modern lens that isn't... However, it is a plastic of excellent quality, the whole conveys a feeling of robustness. In summary, it is a lens that I would recommend to those who love this focal length. For the overall quality and for the price.
Opinion:Here it came yesterday and today I put it to the whip, in portraits fantastic, in macro, but the real one is done with something else .... let's say closely.... you have to understand it, it would be the function up close and maybe do the first manual focus, but it depends on the STM system .... Then you get very nice photos,.... I would buy it immediately, I do not regret at all 100 macro 2.8
Pros:Sharpness, stabilization, focus distance, great for portraiture.
Cons:Stm focus not good for macro photography.
Opinion:Purchased as a replacement for the ef 85 mm f 1.8. My opinion is as follows. Excellent sharpness already at full aperture f2. higher than my warning to the sharpness of the old EF 85 1.8. The stabilization and focusing distance is another point in its favor, I use it for portraits , although officially it is considered a macro lens. As for the focus, Achilles heel as I had read in many reviews on this lens, I do not find it so dramatic, I consider it at the same level as the predecessor, for portraits I do not find any problem, obviously if I had to use it to make macro photos, after having had EF100 mm f 2.8. , is actually lower. In conclusion, I recommend it for portraiture, who switches to the microless system is has a buget to invest, I recommend selling the old and take this, you gain in sharpness, focusing distance and image stabilization and ergonomics not using the adapter. Instead I do not recommend it for macro because of the stm focus, for macro at the same price you will find used EF 100 macro 2.8 to use with adapter.
Cons:"Cheap" appearance, heavier and noisier than expected.
Opinion:Switching from SLR to mirrorless, I sold EF 85 1.8 and Tamron 90 2.8 Macro to take this. I don't know if it's because I subconsciously have to justify buying it, yet I'm using it a lot. Especially for food photos, commercial closeups and portraits. Not yet tested in bright light or events with fast subjects, but it seems great to me. Compared to the old 85 it seems slightly sharper, however, that sadness the front lens so small ... The old man was a big mouth hungry for light. The focus to go from closeup to infinity is not very fast, but not even tragic as I read on the web. (One guy was talking about 10-15 seconds... No, it will be 2 or 3 at most!) Always compared to the old EF the focus has a noise that I just do not like, but who cares. In comparison to the other fixed economic RF on the weight side there is a step back: despite having less glass than the old 1.8 this weighs a hair more.
Pros:Excellent sharpness, optical performance in general, low weight, reasonable price.
Cons:Autofocus, it does not have internal focus, it lacks the hood and is not tropicalized, but everything you can not have for this price!
Opinion:Arrived just today, here are my first impressions. I will use it on a Canon EOS R, without a stabilizer in the car. And starting from the stabilization, I must say that this 85 mm almost completely keeps what it promises. Up to 1/8 of a second you can shoot (if you have a fairly firm hand) without incurring the move, this means that the effectiveness of the stabilizer exceeds 4 f / stop. Sharpness: exceptional! The thing that surprises me is the uniformity center / edges, just as befits a macro lens. Moving from T.A. to f/4 I almost do not see the variation in sharpness at the edges, which is already excellent at full aperture. From an optical point of view nothing to complain, indeed a round of applause to Canon that has managed to create a lens with a relatively low price with this performance. Other advantages are certainly the low weight, obtained thanks to the fact of having used many plastic elements. Let us now turn to the slightly less positive things. The most serious one is the autofocus: despite having read all the reviews and knowing that it is the Achilles' heel of this lens, I expected much more. In photographic use (and not to shoot videos, in this mode I have yet to try it), it is not particularly fast, it is noisy and sometimes even the lens is missing. It seems that the STM engine struggles to move the lens assembly, as I had read in an authoritative review. As for the reliability of the MAF, I almost have the feeling that it is a firmware problem... Another thing I don't like is the fact that I don't have internal focus, so the barrel extends. In short, if you are looking for maximum optical performance like myself, you will be very happy with this RF 85 mm, but if you look at the focus you will turn up your nose a little.
Opinion:The optics exceed expectations in everything, in particular in definition and in addition returns a truly unexpected bokeh. The only really considerable drawback does not lie in the lack of the hood or in the absence of the soft case, but in the lack of tropicalization, if there were it would be a must at that price .....
Opinion:I bought this lens because I wanted a more universal lens than an 85 1.4 for portrait and a 100 2.8 macro, very specific. The compromise of having a maximum aperture of f2 is compensated by the possibility of approaching up to a magnification of 1:2, remarkable for a portrait lens. The sharpness is uncompromising, you always shoot quietly at maximum aperture with total precision of focus. the blurry is not from 1.4 and could not be, but I assure you that even at f2 you get very pleasant results and a more than excellent detachment without permanently eliminating the surrounding environment but isolating the subject in the right amount. the parts a little negative are the speed of the autofocus, although it gains in precision, and the focus in macro mode, a little difficult if very close to the subject, in these cases better to use the manual focus. Excellent construction and well compacted a little less the extension of the internal barrel. I highly recommend this lens to those who, like me, do not have a specific continuous genre between portrait and macro but a mixture of both without compromising too much one and the other. Rating 9.5.
Pros:Limited optical quality, stabilizer, weight and footprint, brightness not record-breaking but exploitable pienaments, fast and quiet af
Cons:Paraluce not included (bad canon habit for non-L) and tropicalization absent
Opinion:I put it to the test with different close ups and portraits, because the focal, brightness and minimum maf allow you to juggle both of these genres. The lens responds very well: in the portrait it offers a very pleasant and quite destructured blurry, the complexion is well rendered, according to Canon tradition and the sharpness is all there, even without the very high microcontrast typical of old-school macros. In the shots at close range emerge, indeed you confirm excellent qualities of sharpness to all the diaphragms, the stabilizer allows you to dare even times that in macro you could only dream of a decade ago, and the bokeh of the out-of-focus floors is gradual and pleasant. It's not a real macro, but it does very well in close-up shooting, and it's not a superluminous, but it does very well in poor ambient light and portraits. It weighs little, relatively small footprint, it is perhaps the optics with the best value for money (for what this simplification is worth) in the current RF landscape. I would have paid something more for the lampshon and especially the tropicalization, but it is still well built and absolutely devoid of games. With the 35/1.8 that I already had form a minimal kit with which to have fun doing a little bit of everything without giving in the eye or dislocating a shoulder.
user180170
sent on October 22, 2020
Pros:Lightness and compactness,
Cons:No lampshed.
Opinion:I got there this morning and took a few shots to see what it's like. I immediately found myself well and very light and compact mounted on the R practically you can hardly feel the weight at all. Already at full openness and very sharp and has a very good blurry. In the next few days I will see how he copes better with portraits and macros.
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