Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens Imported

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

This is an amazing go-to lens for close ups. The image is beautiful and my it's the first one I grab.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

My primarily use this lens is for large scale stitched panoramas.
Secondary use is for casual portrait work

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

Im impressed with this item, very happy with my purchase. It has a very nice bokeh and make great portraits. Great sharp images too! I really recommend it for beginners like me.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

When it really needs to be sharp, you need 1.) a tripod 2.) an electronic shutter release 3.) to turn off the lens' automatic features, and 4.) a prime lens instead of a zoom. This lens is ideal for portraiture, it's fast enough to shoot in low light, and the bokeh is beautiful.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

Very fast!

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

I read many reviews before selecting this lens to use with my Canon 5D III. This is a great portrait prime lens. Nice sharp images. Great lens for portrait work. Reasonable price for the outstanding performance you receive.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

My first non-stock lens purchased (not first used) and man is this lens awesome.

Best perks for this is the fastest autofocus you can get, the really nice, smooth, and quiet focus ring, and the beautiful bokeh between F1.8 and F2.4

The biggest beef I have with it is that you need to protect this thing a lot due to its hefty weight. Also the lens is really not meant for Macro making it slightly less versatile, but is really a portrait lens.

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I bought this product for my business to better the quality of my portraits. I have used it once and already I can tell the quality is great. It is easy to use and really creates those sharp images.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

Great lenses! it creates great images with exceptional bokeh! Highly reccomend!

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Never thought I'd like a fixed lens, but this baby is perfect. Just back up if you get too close.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

This is wonderful portrait lens you should have one.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

Best lense ever, my DSLR is on steroids!!
Poor delivery system with UPS, though. Other than that, love my 85mm!

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

New favorite lens

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

The product is built well, and the optics are of the finest I've seen. I would rate this lens higher than the Canon 24-70L I had until recently.
On f1.8 it gives you the clear advantage of night photography for shows and such, and on average aperture of 8 or 11 the photo is still crisp but sharp and magical
Amazing for portraits.

For those like me, who use a crop sensor camera, I warn it is the bit difficult on 85mm actually becoming about 135mm and requires a lot of distance between you and the subject. Take about 3-4 meters and you're perfectly aimed for the best portrait of your life!

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

best portrait lens.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

Love it! Very sharp. Looks good stopped down pretty far too

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

This lens is magnificent on my full frame 6D. Wide open it has a solidly ethereal feel. The focal length allows a comfortable distance to my subject and mildly flattens perspective. The build quality is on par with other USM lenses. Manual focus has the same plastic on plastic feel of other similar grade lenses. My only complaint is the lens hood attachment style.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

This lens is a significant step up from my 50mm/1.8 for not a very large price.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

The lens is nice for what it is built to do. Built quality is good. Image quality is high, as other prime lenses. However, at this focus length, f/1.8 is simply not enough to get a satisfactorily shallow depth of field for portrait. For that purpose you need to get at least f/1.4, if not the super expensive f/1.2. So if you have things like 70-200f2.8, this lens would not give you much more. Now I mainly use it for some video recording under low light, such as solo instrument or dancing performance from front 5-10th rows. Another use is with tubes for macro photos on things like small flowers.

Comments about Canon 85mm f/1.8 EF USM Autofocus Lens:

I use this for portrait photography. It does have some CA but it can be fixed in your photo editor no problem. The images & bokeh are very good. I plan to shoot some indoor sports with this lens also. I can't wait to see what it does in a gym. B&H service is great!! They were very informative about the product. Thanks Canon & B&H!!!!