Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Lens

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

The Bottom Line: Great lens producing lovely pictures.

Review: 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: 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!

The Bottom Line: A versatile prime lens that is great for anything from portraits to action shots.

Review: 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, lightweight, and compact, f/1.8 aperture.

Cons: Hood not included.

The Bottom Line: If looking for good picture quality and a really nice, sharp lens, consider this.

Review: 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: Sharp, great bokeh, high contrast, no flare, fast, great color.

Cons: Poor minimum focusing distance

The Bottom Line: If you shoot with primes, run and pick this up. If you shoot with zooms... STAY AWAY from this lens. You will never go back to zooms.

Review: 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 for action, portraits and low light situations

Cons: focusing distance could be closer

The Bottom Line: Awesome lens for the price. Great for experiments in photography.

Review: 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: Awesome image quality.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: The best quality/price lens you can get. Just make sure you really want an 85mm.

Review: 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

The Bottom Line: An excellent prime lens offering great value

Review: 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: 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.

The Bottom Line: Great value, definitely worth the investment, and amazing picture

Review: 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

The Bottom Line: for its light weight and speed and price why buy anything else

Review: 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: Fast, high contrast, great color, glass on par with L series.

Cons: none

Review: 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 ...