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Canon 85mm f1.2: Generation Context

11 positive · 12 mixed · 9 critical mentions across 32 sources.

successor the ef-85 1.4 L is launched in 2017 and in fact the company's last premium portrait lens designed for dslrs it was better corrected and featured Optical image stabilization but while certainly capable of very blurred backgrounds it lacked the ultimate bragging rights of an F 1.2 aperture…
— Gordon Laing (source)
the L lens still has a clear Advantage it's only when we stop all the way down to f5.6 that both lenses are perfectly sharp from the corners right back into the middle of the frame so they're both great performers but on a full-frame camera the f1.2l actually carries quite a convincing Advantage…
— Christopher Frost (source)
key differences for those of you who can actually afford one of those lenses or anyone else who's just curious by the way you probably already know that the newer RF lens is available as a special version with defocus smoothing I've made a separate video about the differences between the normal if…
— Christopher Frost (source)

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