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Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
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Review Date: May 13, 2008
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Bokeh, sharpness, build quality, color, manual focus, price.
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Cons:
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Indoor AF, fringing/CA.
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Pros:
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* Bokeh: Cream-machine. Backgrounds disappear right in front of your eyes, and become dreamy glows of color.
* Sharpness: Good sharpness right from 1.8, excellent from 2.8 and higher.
* Build Quality: not much left to wish for here; metal mount, very solidly built, no moving parts ... Maybe the focus ring could be a little bit more damped.
* Color: warm, saturated colors.
* Manual focus: this actually is a lens i can (have to ...) use to focus manually on my 400D 
* Price: This lens is worth every Euro out of 335!
Cons:
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* Indoor AF: i just went to a three-day party to take pictures, and i often used this lens. About the only real problem i had was focusing in dark environments. It was or slow, or hunted and didn't find focus. My EF-S 17-55 was A LOT faster, and I often had to switch to it.
* Fringing/CA: this is a bit of an issue, in almost any high contrast situation you get very clear CA's and/or fringing.
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