Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM : Specifications and Opinions

Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM

The Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM is a wide-angle lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1998 to 2015 (discontinued). The focus is done by Ultrasonic AF Motor (Ring-USM), it does not have image stabilization. The average price was 1038 €;

73 users have given it an average vote of 9.7 out of 10.

MOUNT

This lens is available with the following mounts:

Canon EF: this lens is compatible with reflex fullframe and APS-C Canon EF.

Specifications
Focal lenght	35 mm
Angle of view	63.5°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/1.4
Aperture blades	8
Lenses/Groups	11 elements in 9 groups
Min. focus distance	0.30 meters
Reproduction ratio	0.18x
Features
Stabilization	No
Focus	Ultrasonic AF Motor (Ring-USM)
Internal Focus	Yes
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	72 mm
Lens hood	Yes, supplied
Weather sealing	No
Weight	580 g
Dimensions	79 x 86 mm
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Massimo Borri

sent on 12 Gennaio 2026

Pros: Colors, blur, general rendering, sharpness more than enough

Cons: Lack of tropicalization

Opinion: I premise, I am a lover of the old EF lenses that I use adapted on my R6. After years spent with the f2, which has given me great satisfaction, I have recently found a good opportunity and I recently got this 1.4L. What can I say, pure love. It is a perspective that responds to my tastes, to my way of telling. Its imperfections are, as with all L series optics, not only 50 1.4 and 85 1.8, contemporary, characteristics that, if known and well exploited, give it a poetics that few perfect modern lenses can have. To have a surgical sharpness you have to close a little but its beauty is with open apertures, in the center it is already good, the magic is the management of the transitions between focus and out of focus, between lights and shadows, the image softens going towards the corners in a gentle, never annoying way. Built in a granite way, too bad it is not tropicalized, with a good quality AF, it is a bit bulky but it makes up for everything when you open the photos. Can you tell that I am extremely satisfied? Evidently I am not alone, given the still relatively high price in the world of second-hand, it is true that with 6/700 euros, you take home a high quality lens. Highly recommended.

Lorenzoph

sent on 09 Febbraio 2025

Pros: Color rendering, sharpness

Cons: I didn't find any, maybe the price

Opinion: It was probably one of the nicest lenses I've ever had along with the 135 F2. I probably think it is even superior to the second series, too perfect, too precise. This 35 1.4 has a "vintage" soul, the rendering is wonderful and is suitable for both street photography and portraiture. Perfect and lightning-fast focus, it doesn't miss a shot (with high-end cameras). I think if I had to find a flaw it is the price. Even today used it costs an arm and a leg.

Makar79

sent on 20 Novembre 2023

Pros: Sharpness, Autofocus

Cons: No tropicalization

Opinion: A lens that is now beginning to have its years, but which still remains rather modern today, discreet construction but certainly not granite like the 24L for example, good sharpness and fully usable at TA, excellent if you close a little, fairly correct and good resistance to stray lights, Vignetta very at TA, but generally it is the field of use of the Street and can be a peculiarity of the lens, or at least I appreciate it for that too, it has a decent/good autofocus on the &D, but since I replaced that camera with the 1DsMKIII the lens has gained new life and hardly misses a beat. The lens is not a monster of correction and at the edge of the frame it is evident with an open aperture, especially for today's microscope standards, but this gives it the character for which it has always been known, still today it remains a valid, sharp lens and if you want to use it for the street, I can only recommend it, it will give emotions

Franco Pastorino

sent on 24 Settembre 2022

Pros: I hate a bit when I read it but I have to write "everything" too

Cons: if you know what you buy, nothing

Opinion: I tried this lens at least 15 years ago lent by a friend, and I fell in love with it. It was the first superluminous I tried and I still remember the blur pulling out at 1.4 on the 1DmkIII. Years later, I bought it from the same person basically unused since he had lent it to me. Paid the right (given the conditions) including original Canon 72mm UV filter that for laziness I have not yet removed (mostly because I do not know where to put it without ruining it). We come to the yield: at 1.4 it is soft in the center and a little splatter at the edges, closing it becomes a razor. but personally I almost always use it at TA or max at f2 to have an extra thread of pdc. I love it for portraits where it has a fairly unique rendering, a real trademark. On 1DsmkIII at 400/800 Iso turning in BN you have a yield really close to analog, on the 1Dx has a more modern rendering. If you want a razor head towards the Sigma ART or the second version but if you have already tried it and know what you want this is a bomb.

Ferronsnicola

sent on 07 Giugno 2021

Pros: all

Cons: nothing

Opinion: It is not serious to put Pro: Everything, Cons: Nothing, but when you try this goal, those that are usually optical defects (aberrations, fringing, vignetting, sharpness drop at full opening...) here give a mix of magic. The defects are not dramatic, the lens remains clear, the aberrations solvable, the vignette idem! Closing the diaphragm the defects disappear and the yield is superimposed on a 35 designed according to modern standards, but I use it practically always all open or almost, closing the diaphragm the lens becomes replaceable by any good zoom, which gains versatility. I often use it at 1.4 also for landscape photographs: in photography the impact counts a lot, and this at 1.4 (without correcting its "defects" in post production) has more than closed and "perfect". Autofocus may not be a sniper, but used on 5d4 never caused me problems (and anyway I wouldn't call it slow).

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