Rating 4.5 71 reviews
Manufacturer: Canon
price MYR 1,900.00 - MYR 2,329.00
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Technology X
12 years ago

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Telephoto Lens Review

First introduced back in July of 1992, the Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM medium telephoto lens has been the go to lens of portrait photographers for decades. It benefits from the solid build quality coupled with the low price and overall great image quality.
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photozone.de
17 years ago

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Retest @ 15mp / Review

The Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM is a very desirable lens and, surprisingly, a very affordable one. Both contrast and resolution are very good straight from f/1.8 and excellent at medium aperture settings. On APS-C DSLRs there's only a moderate degree of vignetting at f/1.8 and beyond it's a non-issue.
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Canon
13 years ago

Simply takes gorgeous portraits

This lens is one of the classic Canon lenses. It is affordably priced, and produces professional quality portraits with sharpness and background bokeh which are wonderful and have something about them that makes you think 'Wow!'.
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Canon
6 years ago

Excellent

An excellent lens in all regards for full-frame use. A true oldie but goodie. Very good performance from f/2.2 to f/18. f/2 is where it starts performing well. I use mine for shallow DOF close-focus and landscape.
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ePHOTOzine
14 years ago

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Lens Review

Gary Wolstenholme reviews the medium telephoto Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Interchangeable lens.
Pros:
  • Excellent sharpness
  • Virtually no distortion
  • Low CA levels
  • Fast auto focus
Cons:
  • No lens hood supplied
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What Digital Camera
15 years ago

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Review

Far cheaper than Canon's f/1.2 equivalent, but still a mighty good performer for a more than reasonable price
Pros:
  • Quality and price
Cons:
  • f/22 performance
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Vistek
18 years ago

Canon EF 85/1.8 – Obsevations and Opinions

THIS LENS was purchased to fill the gap between my 50mm macro and 100mm macro lenses and in a few months has replaced the 100mm as my go-to short telephoto of choice. It's image quality, moderate focal length and significantly smaller size compared to the 100 are the main factors in this shift.
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Ciao
16 years ago

"Best lens I have"

I bought this lens to do portrait work but then I find myself using it more and more for every kind of pictures, compressed landscape, flower, nature, anything really. The quality of the pictures is just too great to miss. This lens is well balanced on a 40d (it would be on a rebel also).
Pros:
  • Perfect picture quality
  • fast and silent
Cons:
  • Prime..
  • Zoom and Dezoom with your feet
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Pricerunner
16 years ago

Canon EF 85 f1.8 USM

Ett fantastiskt gediget objektiv, med tanke på prisnivån. Tungt, stabilt och rejält. Kvaliteten i bilderna är också mycket imponerande. Fina färger, utomordentligt skarpt och en mycket tilltalande "oskärpa" vid stor bländare. Kort sagt är detta ett mycket bra objektiv.
Pros:
  • Skarpt
  • Välbyggt
  • Fin "oskärpa"
  • Bra färger
  • Snabb AF
Cons:
  • Finner inget
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Photography Review
15 years ago

A great lens to own. You will still be using this wonderful glass into your 4th or 5th Camera upgrade... in the next decade or so. It's that good. It's like having a 50mm lens on a cropped 1.6x sensor. Same FOV.
Pros:
  • Bang great AF accuracy with manual overide
  • No moving parts
  • no focus barrel movements
  • Weird but wonderfull lens hood
  • (Try attaching the hood in reverse and let them go crazy trying to figure out what kind of lens you got
  • because it looks...weird! Try it it
  • its fun.
Cons:
  • Easily spotted by photographer friends and asked to be borrowed..
  • annoying
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