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Canon 85mm f1.2: Bokeh

26 positive · 2 mixed · 11 critical mentions across 39 sources.

With an 8 elements in 7 groups optical formula, one giant ground and polished aspherical glass to deal with spherical aberration, and an overall true double-Gauss formula, made to exclusively deliver the best-in-class bokeh instead of sharpness, what the EF 85mm f/1.2 L II USM delivers optically is…
— LENS DATA (source)
its extremely impressive maximum aperture of f1.2 that means it lets in twice as much light as an f1.8 lens and can give you backgrounds which are twice as blurry the blur potential of this lens is Extreme which is one of the reasons it makes an excellent portrait lens but as you can see it takes a…
— Christopher Frost (source)
a blurrier background with a 1.2 lens and that's the kind of thing that drives portrait or wedding photographers crazy as well as anyone else who wants to achieve creative shots where your subject seems to jump out at you it's also pretty fantastic for video work although as you can see in this…
— Christopher Frost (source)

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