Canon RF 85mm F2 Macro is STM, Compact Medium-Telephoto Black Lens (4234C002)

It's a Canon lens. Can you afford the f1.2 ? Then I suggest you buy it if you can. But the awesome thing about this lens is low aperture plus macro ability. It's not the lowest aperture but it works

This lens does a beautiful job at the fraction of the price that the USM lens is! 1000/10 reccomend. I will say the focus speed is not a quick as the USM lens, however it is manageable and for the price to me its worth the few seconds difference!!!

Excelente

Lightweight and sharp as a tack! I get about 12" of working room between the lens and the subject. I use it to shoot miniatures about 1 1/2 inches high and they fill a horizontal frame. I have an R8 body, so the relatively high f-stop doesn't make a huge difference. If I want more bokeh I just move my backdrop.This also works great as a portrait lens!

I would like to straight away mention that I rate this 4 stars, only because I always feel there is room for improvement. I therefore never give any product a 5 Star rating, unless it is absolutely superb.This is a good portrait lens and for the price, certainly worth it. The alternative is the RF 85mm F1.2L which costs about $2500. This lens, for about a fifth of the price, is a decent alternative. It comes with a sort of Macro facility which may be good for product photography. I say, "sort of," because the magnification is only 0.5x. It cannot deliver what professional Macro lenses do. But then, we get what we pay for!I am having fun trying out my latest RF lens with my Canon EOS R6 body. 🙂

I bought this lens to replace my old EF 85 f/1.8 lens. I was hesitant because of some bad reviews. But it turned out to be a great upgrade. Image quality is top notch – very sharp, good contrast and great colors. I use it on my EOS R6. Images from this combo are very clean (no haze that I often experienced from the old 85 f/1.8).f/2.0 vs f/1.8 on the old lens – this really didn’t matter much to me. The performance of the old lens wide open wasn’t great. I used f/2.2 or above for most of my shooting with it. This new RF lens however produce excellent results wide open at f/2.0. The bokeh it produces is very good too.And of course, this new RF lens has IS, close focusing distance and 1:2 macro. All useful features.Before buying this, I was concerned about 2 issues – slow and noisy autofocus and geometric distortion. Neither turned out to be issues for me. Autofocus is noisy but it is fast for normal shooting (0.5m to infinity). Manual/focusing for Macro (0.35m – 0.5m) is difficult, but Macro in general is difficult if you want to do it right. Geometric distortion (very minor pincushion distortion) is harmless, especially after lens correction.I am not much into videos, so no experience there.I am a hobbyist with 25+ years of experience using SLR, DSLR and now mirrorless. I very much appreciate the smaller RF lenses Canon is producing (I use RF 85 f/2.0, RF 35 f/1.8 and RF 16 f/2.8) to go along with compact bodies such as R6. Photography is fun again!

By far my favorite lens for portraits, idk what else to say

I’ve been using the 35mm on my Canon r8 and I loveeee it! But I needed something where I could be further away and still have good quality. This lens has been so good and the quality is unmatched!!! I love it!