EF 85mm f/1.8 USM for All Canon EOS series SLR cameras

Pros: Excellent bokeh, sharp subjects, works well for portraits, head shots, low light
Cons: Focal length may be too long to use indoors in a tiny house like mine!

Last October I was granted permission from my husband to finally upgrade my Rebel XT to a Canon 30d. Since Canon was running a double rebate program, I also decided to pick up a new lens so I could score a little more money off the camera body (spend ...

Pros: Sharp, great bokeh, high contrast, no flare, fast, great color.
Cons: Poor minimum focusing distance

And this is saying allot. This lens easily takes on my 50 1.4, 300 F4 L, 70-200 F2.8 and 400 F2.8 L IS. It is an amazing lens for those that shoot with primes (lenses that are fixed in focal length). Not only is it light and fast, the color, bokeh ...

Pros: great overall image quality inluding bokeh and sharpness, fast autofocus
Cons: chromatic aberration, contra-light performance not ideal, a bit long on cropped sensors

I do not own this lens for a long time, but it has become one of my favorites almost instantly. This very fast lens perform very well in plenty of situations, including low-light rooms, where autofocus still works flawlessly and very quickly (on Canon ...

Pros: Awesome image quality.
Cons: None.

This lens is a real bargain. The image quality is easily comparable to the one you get from an L lens, but this one costs one third of those monsters (but you don't get the red ring, of course :-)

I tend to use is mostly for landscape...

Pros: Great colors and bokeh, sharp, light, small, cheap
Cons: Not as sharp as the f/1.2 version, long minimal focusing distance

Review Date: Jan 21, 2005 Recommend? yes | Price paid: $320.00 | Rating: 9 Pros: Great colors and bokeh, sharp, light, small, cheap Cons: Not as sharp as the f/1.2 version, long minimal focusing distance This might be the best non-L ...

Pros: Sharp, lightweight, and compact, f/1.8 aperture.
Cons: Hood not included.

I originally purchased this lens for the same reasons as many others did; I needed a good portrait lens at a price I could afford. I’ve always used lenses with a zoom, so the fixed focal length, took a little getting used to. Once I did get the hang of ...

Pros: great for action, portraits and low light situations
Cons: focusing distance could be closer

I bought this lens because I was looking for something that would take great portraits. With such a large opening, the depth of field is very shallow, which is great for blurring out backgrounds, or foregrounds, for that matter. You can really isolate ...

Pros: Fast Focus, good bokeh, lightweight
Cons: AF,soft wide open at times, hunts in low light

I bought this lens b/c of its good reviews but I must say I am a little disappointed in how sharp it is. I shot portraits at f2/8 and find the images not quite up to par which is a bummer since I bought the lens for its aperture/bokeh/sharpness. I find ...

Pros: Fast, sharp, great bokeh, comparable to "L" at a quarter the price.
Cons: Not a con, but make sure you want 85mm before buying this.

There are only three lenses that I absolutely love for Canon camera. This is one of them. After extensive research and looking for reviews on the web, I finally decided to fork out the $300 and get this lens. Wow, what a great decision I made. ...

Pros: small lightweight tack sharp and 1.8
Cons: some blurriness around edges

This is the workhorse lens of many professional portrait photographers.
It is tack sharp and fairly small in size.
Compared to the price and size of the L series lens.
The 1.8 is fast in low light and allows blurried backgrounds keeping...

Pros: Clarity, quality. Portrait, product, distant landscapes.
Cons: Useability in the field or in quick-reaction situations. Focusing distance.

This is a review based on useability not quality, but I would not in any way call this a landscape lens, at least not in a mobile sense. It's fine if you can quickly judge how much of the frame an 85mm lens will render, but this is a fixed lens, and you can use it bring distant scenery closer, but you'll lose the foreground in the meantime. I think its clear this is a portrait and product lens, if you would choose to shoot that in 35mm. I also wouldn't use it on a runway shoot. The lens otherwise seems well built with beefy glass, and good clarity.

Pros: Fast, high contrast, great color, glass on par with L series.
Cons: none

Sharp, great color, fast focus and huge F/1.8. Great short telephoto when used on a digital camera with a crop ratio. This and the 1.4 50mm are the sharpest lenses I've ever worked with.