Canon 85mm f1.2 › Optical Performance

Canon 85mm f1.2: Optical Performance

32 positive · 6 mixed · 19 critical mentions across 57 sources.

RF lens is razor sharp with excellent contrast in the middle of your images the older EF lens does have some good resolution there although not as much as the RF lens but most noticeable is the huge difference in contrast and the huge amount of color finging in the EF option well let's take a look…
— Christopher Frost (source)
85 mm is much better in fact it's really impressive with the aperture wide open at f1.2 the lens is very sharp in the middle of the image and there are good colors and contrast there is some visible purple fringing which is a bit of a shame but it only really shows up on quite bright sunny days it's
— Christopher Frost (source)
full-frame camera in this case a 20 megap Canon 6D of course only the L lens can reach f1.2 where it actually puts in a great performance with plenty of sharpness and surprisingly good corners but this is a comparison video so let's stop it down to f1.8 the widest common aperture between both…
— Christopher Frost (source)

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