Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM Review

The Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM lens is a top-performing lens with outstanding image quality, smooth bokeh, and impressive build quality. The autofocus system is accurate, and the lens is well-suited for portrait photography despite its high price.

The Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM lens offers outstanding image quality, smooth bokeh, and impressive build quality. The autofocus system is accurate, and the lens is well-suited for portrait photography despite its high price.

The lens's image quality is spectacular, even at the widest aperture of f/1.2, with plenty of sharpness and contrast. Distortion is negligible, but there is some vignetting, especially at f/1.2.

The Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM lens is a top-performing lens with outstanding image quality, smooth bokeh, and impressive build quality. The lens's enormous size almost looks comical when mounted on a mirrorless camera, but it boasts a metal body with weather sealing, and parts of the lens are well weather sealed too. While the lens is heavy, it features a rubberized focus ring and an electronic focus motor that works responsively, although it exhibits some focus breathing. The lens's image quality is spectacular, even at the widest aperture of f/1.2, with plenty of sharpness and contrast. Distortion is negligible, but there is some vignetting, especially at f/1.2. The lens's bokeh is reasonably smooth, and although there is some longitudinal chromatic aberration at f/1.2, it significantly improves at f/2. Overall, the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM lens offers outstanding image quality with great colors and contrast and an accurate autofocus system that makes it highly recommended for portrait photography, despite its high price.

The Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 'L' USM lens provides great colors and contrast and an accurate autofocus system that makes it highly recommended for portrait photography, despite its high price.