CANON EF 85MM F/1.4L IS USM : First Look with Allyson Berger
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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Join Allyson Berger and the AdoramaTV team as they put the Canon EF 85mm f/1.4L IS USM lens to the test with some portraits for Allyson's portfolio in Washington Square Park, in New York City.
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Those sample images aren't doing the lens any favors. Warm 'em up!! They're SO cool!
Agreed, though from a photographer perspective, I think we're all looking at the bokeh since we know we can easily warm them up :p
Jonathan Brady
The whole video is cyan biased.
I thought there was something wrong with my screen.
Edwin Scott 😂
True. I went straight to looking at the bokeh since the image didn't look too great with that color tone.
Finally Canon are starting to put IS in primes. looks like an awesome lens.
better than the BH video about this lens
This lens will get more attention for me in a few month on the used forums. Looking forward to more reviews.
Love this lens.
...the main new exciting feature of this lens is stabilization, it would
have been great to show the quality of it in some video sequences!
I'm not sure if it's the youtube compression, but the skin tones look grey in the pro shots. How many elements are in this lens, and are they affecting colour?
Eric Draht 14 elements in 10 groups
At least it's smaller that the chunky Sigma! But regarding the image quality...hm....the samples look like I could have taken them with my Canon 85 1.8 as well!
The images definitely look SooC, which I REALLY appricitate, because this is the base, that the photographers should work with.
I belive that you should have taken sample images on a bit different background as well, because it's really hard to judge the bokeh on a really harsh background like this. It looks promising tho, the bokeh balls are very soft, and the "warp" mostly happens on the the edges.
It should be a nice lens, but it's very hard to judge, especially on this backdrop.
An f/1.4 aperture combined with 4-stops of stabilization? This lens is going to be very good for low light photography.
Combined with I.S?? What kind of low light photography with I.S? Sports, concerts, moving subjects at night? lol only for handheld street photo sorry, just a niche for 1600$... Or maybe you are an artist and do great pictures with breaking rules, in this case all apologies! :D
some people actually use lenses indoors with less light than sporting events. Also longer lenses have way more need for IS that shorter focal lengths when handheld. damn you you people on youtube ever take pics or just talk nonsense.
What is the weight of this lens?… The 1.2 was waaaaaay too heavy for me.
Bigger lens = heavier lens
Adding IS usually adds weight. Example, 70-200 F/2.8 with and without IS
The f/1.2 is 36.5oz and the f/1.4 is about 33oz. Not a big difference.
IS adds weight yet the 1.2 is older and has more glasses. Technology is\helping to keep the lens smaller, lighter and have better performance than the older lenses.
Your photographer had the wrong picture profile on the camera and wasn't shooting RAW. Looks like they had it set up for a flat video profile and forgot to change it back to normal before shooting this.
i was saving up for the 1.2 i guess i'm going for that IS 1.4 :)
buy a used 1.2
Which lens is FASTER the Sigma 85mm f1.4 ART or the New Canon 85mm f1.4 L IS ???
It depends on the T-stop
use the 5ds/r not the mark III
"Dust- and Water-resistant Professional-grade Design" That means rubber sealing on the mount, wich the 85mm f/1.2 and f/1.8 lack if memmory serves?
scegliete dei bg per scattare portrait alquanto discutibili.
its not the photographers its the lens people. The lens suck right now the color is off and every one is getting bad photos with this lens that used it. That saids something not right.
why isnt anyone comapring the 1.2 and 1.4. Serious these youtube people with all the gear on earth never show people what they really want to see until some late full review.
if you want to get people excited for this lens to drive traffic for a potential purchase why are you not posting links of the raw images? just a thought
No wonder, the photographer is a Sony user, so he may or may not have really understood the camera well enough to maximize the potential of the lens.
sweet
Is it just me or does that bokeh have a bit of a swirl to it?
Hopefully! I love the swirl. Anybody who doesn't like it can buy Sigma's 85mm Art with a boring bokeh.
i like body you used ^^
Come on. I assume it's a very good lens and going to buy one in a while, but the sample portraits in the video are hardly showing all benefits of the lens, they're neither professional nor even enthusiast level. Random shots with poor light.
Nice announcer, but has the same canon blur we've all come to loath.
It's called bokeh
where did you get the "all" from rofl.
THE IMAGES ARE VERY SOFT.
I don't need image stabilization. I don't shake my camera like a maraka when I take a photo.
then why are you here commenting Mister Perfect?
This comment was pretty stupid. If you know how lens work. the longer the focal length the more shakes show up in images then combined with more megapixels sense future cameras are receiving more and more MP, the effect is further intensified, then I wound t even go into using a long lens for video without IS handheld.
The photo output in this video doesn't look anywhere as good as the 85 F/1.2 I had.
i want one for my 6D but the build quality will be plasticky like the other new 35mm f/1.4 II L
even 3rd party Sigma & Tamron have better build quality.
Canon 24-105 II L and 24-70mm f/2.8 II L and 16-35mm f/2.8 III L & f/4 IS L
all of them have plastic exterior like many other brand lenses, but atleast they don't feel cheap and delicate ; eg. Sigma 24-105mm f/4 ART & 24-70mm f/2.8 OS ART feel solid & give confidence when held in hands, unlike Canons
Then you won't be buying a new lens, ever? Plastic is the more durable and drop- proof choice. Solid metal innards and plastic shell. Check out the teardown: www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/12/canon-35mm-f1-4-mk-ii-teardown/
I will quote from the article:
"The more important part the thick gray barrel of this lens. That’s
heavy gauge metal. All the pieces of lenses we’ve removed attach to this
heavy metal center barrel. This is unusual, but it’s so logical I want
to weep with joy just for having seen it. I have rolled my eyes for
years when people say a lens is “Built like a tank” because it has a
heavy metal shell. Then we open it up and see the insides are tiny
little screws and weak nylon collars set in thin sheet metal helicoids.
That kind of ‘built like a tank’ is probably useful if you want your
lens to stop a bullet, but doesn’t make the lens reliable.
This is my kind of built like a tank. There is a flexible
polycarbonate shell over a very solid metal core with really heavy-duty
rollers, screws, and bearings. That’s a logical way to build things;
make the core the strongest part, not the shell. It sounds so simple,
but like I said, this is the first time we’ve ever seen this kind of
construction in a prime lens of standard focal length. We take apart A
LOT of lenses (we passed 20,000 in-house repairs some time ago) and this
is the most impressively built prime I’ve seen. This is an engineer’s
lens."
"When you look close up you see these aren’t just sliding posts, there
are actually tiny ball bearings inside them. There’s also a spring
tensioning system around one of the rollers. I keep repeating myself,
but by this point I was really rather awestruck by the amount of careful
over-engineering that went into making this lens. Nobody, and I do mean
nobody, else is engineering lens mechanics like the newer Canon lenses."
"I’m sure you can tell we’re impressed with the Canon 35mm f/1.4 Mk
II. The weather resistance appears better than most weather resistant
lenses. (As always, I’ll add that weather resistance still means water
damage voids the warranty.) The mechanical construction is beyond
impressive. This lens is massively over-engineered compared to any other
prime we’ve ever disassembled. It’s built like a tank where it counts;
on the inside. Moving parts are huge and robust. Six big screws are used
in locations where 3 smalls screws are common in other lenses. Heavy
roller bearings move the focusing group, it doesn’t slide on little
nylon collars.
It’s also designed thoughtfully and logically. Things that will
inevitably get damaged on any lens, like the front element and filter
ring, are designed to be replaced easily. There are some things inside,
particularly with the tensioning screws and springs, that I’m not
certain I understand the purpose of, but I am certain there is a
purpose. If I had to summarize the mechanical design of this lens, I
would say simply that no expense was spared, no corner was cut."
Build quality on the 35 1.4 II is fantastic. :)
bought the Canon EF 85mm f/1.4 L IS USM . . . . Today
wow these images suck compared to sigmas 85 1.4
WTF canon????
hot damn
Overpriced lens for portraiture!! (1600$) There are a lot of better lenses (quality-price ratio) between 350$ and 900$ with autofocus (canon 135L f2, canon 100 macro 2.8L IS, canon 85 1.8, tamron 85 1.8 VC, sigma 50 1.4 art and 35 1.4 art... I own them all, i know what i'm talking about and don't speak about focusing issues because it's just about camera focus microadjustments) Who's stupid enough to buy this lens instead of two of the ones i mentioned for the same price or less? Or instead of a second camera or an upgrade to FF body?? Or instead of a drone, tripods, gimbal, filters, batteries, flashes and all the gear a photographer or a videographer needs??? I need explanations lol... Ok if this lens have a perfect light transmission T1.4 or T1.5, it could be a different analysis, but i really doubt about it folks!..
You have over $4000 in overlapping portrait lens and $1600 is too much ? None of them have weather sealing. The focusing issues with sigma are not simply fixed with micro adjustments when they nail focus they're amazing but it's inconsistent. The aging 135L (one of my favorites) isn't well suited for the newer high resolution sensors especially wide open. Accuracy, reliability, and durability in most conditions are the reason I sold my 35 art and picked up 35L ii. The only comparable lens is the tamron with its VC. Now this video doesn't do the best of showcasing this lenses character but if it's engineering is anything like the 35L ii than it brings a versatility that the other lenses fall short in matching
Well said...