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Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Lens

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  • Focal Length: 85mm
  • Aperture Range: f/1.2-16
  • Canon EF Mount Lens
  • Full-Frame Format
  • Dust and Moisture Resistant Sealing
  • Floating Optical System
  •  High Precision Aspherical Lens Element
  • 72mm Filter Thread Diameter
  • Super Spectra Coatings
  • Truly Circular 8 Blade Diaphragm

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Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Lens

The EF 85mm f/1.2 IL II USM Autofocus Lens for Canon is an incredible lens. It delivers superb, fast and clear optical performance. With its f/1.2 maximum aperture, it makes this lens the choice for professionals to shoot without flash in dim or dark rooms. It also provides great control over depth of field to make for amazing portrait photography. Having the impressive optical performance and large aperture of its predecessor, this lens has been improved with a high-speed CPU, Ring-type USM and other things, such as optimized algorithms to achieve an autofocus speed that is 1.8x faster than before. Its circular aperture and high speed AF creates a shallow depth of field, which brings attention to the subjects in a background, keeps picture from being blurry, and captures everything in great detail.

High Speed Auto-Focus 

The Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 lens has a high speed AF circular aperture that creates a shallow depth of field that brings attention to the subject and blurs the background. This feature is ideal when you are shooting portraits and wedding photos. The lens’ floating optical system includes an aspherical lens element that’s suppresses aberrations and ensures excellent imaging performance. Besides being fast and efficient the ring type USM ultrasonic frequency drives the rapid autofocus function with near silent operation.

Super Spectra Coating

The lens is sturdy and functional but what adds more to its useful features is the quality of images it produces. Equipped with super spectra lens coating along with other lens elements it suppresses flare and ghosting. The lens coating also helps achieve true color balance and increase contrast for vivid hi-fidelity images.

8 Bladed Circular Aperture

The lens’ 8 bladed aperture creates a shallow depth of field and blurs the background; this is especially useful when shooting portraits.

 

 

Specifications

Main
Lens Mount Canon EF Mount
Zoom/Prime Prime Lenses
Lens Type Medium Telephoto
Maximum Aperture f/1.2
Lens Series Canon L
Lens Format Full Frame Sensors
Fixed Focal Length 85mm
Configuration Core
Special Designs Mirror Lenses
Color Black

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Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Lens

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Lens SKU: 1056B002

Rated 5 out of 5 by from Excellent portrait lens, tack sharp wide even wide What to say about this lens! Excellent, outstanding bokeh and tack sharp even at wide open. It's even better with R system with excellent eye tracking. It produces excellent portraits no matter what your subject and what the background is. Simply set it to eye AF and set f1.2 or 1.4 and the lens do the magic for you. Highly recommend.
Date published: 2020-08-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by from The best 85 in the game! This is an excellent lens with a beautiful bokeh. Great for headshots and product photography!
Date published: 2020-06-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Heavy but astonishing I bought this lens for portraiture and the quality is astonishing. The lens itself is fairly heavy but there’s quite a bit of glass involved. I see a lot of chromatic aberration when shooting high contrast subjects. Although editing software usually does a decent job of removing it, it can sometimes be an issue when a subject is in business attire with a white shirt. Regardless, the depth of field is razor sharp and I recommend taking at least a few shots per pose to ensure that you get the eyes in focus. Speaking of focus, it’s slow. This is not a lens for fast-paced action. It wants you to take your time.
Date published: 2020-02-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Best one in my hand Perfect lens for portrait. Had a lot of fun with my kids now.
Date published: 2019-09-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Super lens I have wanted an 85mm 1.2 since my first days of serious photography, back in the 70s and the old SSC (Super Spectra Coat) lenses. All my years of waiting ended about 6 months ago, and I couldn't be happier with this lens. As other reviewers have mentioned, this lens is meant to be shot wide open, and it does a great job. You can keep the ASA really low and still maintain reasonable shutter speeds (but be sure to enlarge the image in the camera if you're working on the edge to be sure there's no camera shake.) It gathers light better than the human eye; on several occasions I have taken some shots in poor lighting, observed that the lens seemed to provide its own fill, and asked others if they saw the same thing I saw. They did. I have had success in lightening dark areas (if needed) by overexposing by about a stop - I don't do much photoshop or raw file manipulating. It provides great warmth (perhaps its greatest asset) which is generally lost even with well balanced flash. I took some portraits of my wife for publication and the editor inquired about what equipment was used because of the beautiful bokeh. I loved my 85 1.8 but they are two very different lenses. Yes, it's heavy and costly, and as noted it mounts a little funny, but I'm sorry I waited so long to enjoy this.
Date published: 2015-04-26
Rated 5 out of 5 by from A real difference maker! I assume anyone looking at this lens is an experienced photographer, has read various reviews and is very near a buy decision. My advice is buy it! Since I've owned this lens complements on my work have tripled. Shooting wide open produces images that are frankly unmatched by any other lens. The negatives you will read about such as weight and slow to focus are in my experience overstated. The lens is heavy but still more than a pound lighter than the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS. Focus is a little slow if you are going from macro to Infinity but I rarely do that and I have never had a problem shooting a moving model. I guess the most important question is always would you buy it again if you had it to so all over again? My answer is in a heart beat. In fact, I own 5 L lenses and if I could only keep one this would be the one I would keep.
Date published: 2014-11-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Beautiful lens So worth every penny !! The focusing is slower than others.
Date published: 2014-08-05
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great lens I'll skip the sweet stuff and go directly to things I disliked: 1, The focus by wire FTM ring. I understand that the lens is actually moving ALL but one elements -- that's a lot of glass-- while focusing but I'd still prefer a stiff, heavy, mechanically connected FTM ring than the loose slippery electronic focus by wire system. Since the electronic FTM on this lens is pretty much useless I always disable the 'electronic manual over-ride ' feature in my 1DS settings menu. 2, The moving front group. I'd prefer a fixed front group or at least somehow extend the outer barrel so the front can be contained within the outer barrel while focusing. I hate to manually 'reset' the lens back to infinite after each session. And a extended outer barrel (maybe by around half an inch) will also make the lens body easier to grip while using large 1D series bodies. 3, No weather seals. 4, The AF/MF switch. It's too small and difficult to use especially with gloves on. This is a special lens, you can tell it's a 85/1.5 from the first glimpse of a picture but there's still much room to improve. so, a mk. III, please?
Date published: 2014-03-22
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