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Pros: Very good image quality - sharp, good contrast and bokeh. Light, compact, fast and silent AF with FTM, popular 58mm filter thread. And all that for less than $400.
Cons: Color aberrations (the fringing) can be too much sometimes, in some specific lighting conditions. Disappointing lens hood design, and it's not included. The minimum focusing distance is 0.85m and it doesn't make it a good close-up lens.
Opinion: In short, for the price, it's a dream lens. A wonderful option for someone starting his FF adventure. The moment I put it on my 5D2 for the first time it was like magic. I could shoot a nice, or seemingly flawless picture of anything and everything with it. Almost no boring images. I even kept many misfocused ones. Compared to a cheap 50F1.8, this is a next level lens. And it's the level that I'm comfortable with to this day. However, if you have an extra $100 lying around, then you might like its bigger "sister" more, the EF 100F2 USM, which is a bit better in many aspects, same level though :).
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Pros:Sharpness already at f 1.8, at F2 we work with reliability, speed, true ultrasonic motor, excellent overall yield, doughy colors, cost in the used.
Cons:For its value for money none.
Opinion:What about, a classic maybe home Canon, little but pure poetry, perhaps comparable to the L-series, the first thing that amazed me is the sharpness already at 1.8, closed then becomes sharp as a knife, the general rendering and colors then we do not talk , a pastiness and surprising delicacy.... I understand then even faster and distinctly more accurate than the 28-70 I have in the kit, excellent focal for portraits even full length, for American planes then there is an absurd detachment with a beautiful blurry... It is true that it presents some aberration but it is easily manageable in post, as far as the construction if it had been bigger would have been perfect, I really recommend it to all those looking for a non-competing portrait optics, which costs little and has High performance, highly recommended!
Opinion:It is one of the historical optics of Canon production, still in the catalogue after many years. As focal length 85 mm on FF I find they are perfect for portrait. Compared to the competition affected by the dated project but not even disfigured in 2019. And it costs really little for what it returns. The lens hood is for a fee and has a very bad graft.
Pros:Perfect focal length for portraits, good even to TA becomes excellent by closing slightly, compact and lightweight, autofocus fast and accurate.
Cons:Unstabilized but you know it before you buy it
Opinion:I wanted to do portraits again and for me the 85mm are ideal. I could have made an effort and take directly the 85mm 1.4 but I preferred to spend much less to regain confidence with the focal. The lens turned out to be a guessed purchase. Very usable TA just close one stop to have an excellent performance. Excellent really blurry, unexceptionable autofocus for precision and speed. In short, a perspective that costs little and really makes a lot. The only limitation is the absence of stabilization but all in all it is not an insurmountable problem. It is certainly not comparable to the 85mm 1.4 stabilized, which I tried and I find stratospheric, but it costs less than a quarter. Recommended.
Cons:Antiquated design, embarrassing lens hood, minimum distance of MAF
Opinion:Defined par excellence the optics from portrait, it pulls out of the images nothing bad even to f 1.8, closing gives the best of itself. Autofocus is fast and accurate. Some chromatic aberration but nothing disastrous. Personally I do not like the surrender of the old USM canon, characterized by slightly cold colors, as opposed to the canon sensors that push a little more towards the warm colors (purely personal opinion). Let's not talk about the lens hood, please, uncomfortable and done on purpose to break at the first opportunity. As other Canon fixed the focus distance is nice long, we're almost at the meter away, so forget about details and close up with this lens. Also be careful not to stay too close otherwise nothing yellow dot fixed and no pictures. It's a project that Canon has been carrying on for almost 30 years, and canon is not worthy of upgrading the mid-range lenses like this, although it churns 4 SLR's per year in the consumer and semi Pro range, too bad.
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