Product Description

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13092 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2519A012AA
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• Dimensions: 42.52" h x 44.88" w x 51.57" l, .94 pounds

Features

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Manufacturer's Description
Fixed focal length lenses generally offer a wider maximum aperture than zoom lenses. From ultra-wide angle lenses ideal for indoor shooting to long telephoto lenses extensively used for wildlife, sports and news photography Canon has the fixed focal length lens to suit you.

If you want a highly practical medium telephoto lens with superb delineation and portability, the EF 85mm f1.8 USM is for you.

Images are sharp and clear at all apertures. Through computer simulations, the lens has been designed to give beautiful background blur, your creativity can be fulfilled with this lens.

Since the front lens group does not rotate during focusing, special filter effects are not affected. Canon offers a highly practical medium telephoto lens with superb delineation and portability.

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Customer Reviews

Superb prime lens
I have owned this lens for 12 months now and take it with me when I'm photographing every time.
I use it mainly for portrait shots, which gives ultra sharp shot of the subject and good background blur behind the subject with vibrant colours. This lens is as good as it gets without having the 'L' standard, but remarkably as good.
Every wedding/portrait photographer who owns a Canon camera should have this lens in his or her arsenal.

The finest (Non- L) Canon prime of all?
This lens HAS to be the finest non-L Canon prime lens of them all.
Superfast, superaccurate autofocus, creamy bokeh, intense vibrant colours and contrast, pin-sharp from edge to edge, I have no hesitation in recommending this lens to any serious Canon photographer.

Photographic heaven for 3 ton
This is one of the best bargain lenses going no question.

I've had a play around with this lens which was a recent purchase and for the price I am blown away. The build is great as is the focus rong - very smooth. Certainly as good as it gets with Canon's mid-level lenses.

But let's not dawdle - we're really all interested in image quality and this lens delivers big time. It's really sharp wide open and the vignetting is not too bad - not as bad as the 50mm 1.4 wide open that's a fact. I'd have no hesitation using wide open at any point - the only other lenses I can say that about are the 135mm f/2 L and the 24-105 f4 L. Used wide open the lens produces blur that is very smooth indeed and coupled in with the fact this lens has an 85mm focal length and it enables you to isolate subjects from a background at a decent distance.

The minimum focusing distance is 85cm, a little longer than I would have thought but the lens still enables the most fantastically narrow DOF effects you can think of.

Size wise it's probably only 15mm longer than the 50mm 1.4 and is therefore easy to pack into a kit bag.

Things do sharpen up when stopped down as with most lenses - but again for most real world applications you'll never notice the improvement if all you're doing is printing up to A4 at home say. All this means is that the lens will deliver at 1.8 and simply gets better from there on in. You can use it with confidence at any setting.

I really can't fault the lens at all. For the money it's superb value. AND, if you have a cropped body sensor camera it acts like a 136mm lens. For me, I have a 5D and 40D and it acts as an 85mm on the 5D and a 136mm on the 40D both - very desireable focal lengths to have with a f1.8 aperture.

Just buy it.