Beautiful bokeh, fast, quick, well balanced, sharp, good colour rendition and priced sensibly. FTM USM is wonderful.

Lacks the ultimate resolution of the Contax G 90/2.8 (e.g. shadow detail, ''3D'' look, etc.) but then makes up for it by being a stop faster.

A great lens; whilst not quite as sharp nor as even-handed as my Contax G 90/2.8, it is faster and therefore at f2.8 holds its own versus the wide-open G lens. AF is fast, decisive and quiet. The lens is moderately sized, and balances well on the end of an EOS 5. It is about as good a lens as I''ve tried on the EOS, although it lacks that L-look (I also compared it against the 28-70/2.8L, which I used to own, and I felt the L-glass gave that lens the edge at 70mm, f2.8, but by a small margin).

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Not used.

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Contax G2 with 28/2.8, 45/2.0 and 90/2.8 EOS 18/3.5, 50/1.8, 28-70/2.8L, etc. Mamiya 7-II with 80/4 Bronica ETRSi with 75/2.8

Sharpness even wide open.Fast autofocus.

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Very nice lens sharp at all settings.Extremly fast focusing well made lens.

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never needed

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Canon 50 1.4 ,28 1.8, 135 2.0

Light in weight,silent, fast, sharp, lovely bokeh

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Really a great lens for portrait It give me a excellent sharp image when aperture f/2.8 and come with very lovelly bokeh Although sharpeness is little bit worse than EF 100mm f/2 USM (just very little bit at f/2, at f/2.8 it give me really excellent quality), but the lovelly bokeh is EF 100mm f/2 USM can''t give me I love this lens very much

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EF 100mm f/2 USM EF 70-200 f/2.8 L USM

Very sharp, light, fast and quiet USM focusing, manual focus override.

Have not find any so far

I am spoiled and lazy, so I use zooms mostly, but if I were told to use a fixed focus prime, this definitely would be one of my choices. It is may be too sharp sometimes, but let it be the biggest problem. Minolta 85mm G is marginally better, but it is a much more expensive lens.

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didn't need

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Minolta 85mm f/1.4 G
Canon 135 f/2.8 Soft Focus
Minolta 28-70 f/2.8 G
Tokina AT-X 28-70 f/2.8 for EOS

Sharp, compact, light weight, fast focusing, quite fast aperture, good for all purpose.

Build quility not as good as L series lense but considering the price what do you expect?

I like this lens! Compare to 100/2, 85mm is more suitable for all purpose photo taking especially when you are using it indoor. 100 f2 may be a bit sharper but it's sometimes too long to be used for short distance shooting.

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Never needed

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80-200 2.8L

sharp. fast. quiet. full time manual focus override.

would like a nicer lens hood.

perfect portrait lens. also a very good walk around lens. love the color, and perspective. good stuff.

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28-105 f3.5-4.5
50mm f1.8
100mm f2
80-200 f2.8L

Lightweight, sharp, no distortion

Build quality, a tiny bit; would pay slightly more to have this in L-series build as it's so good.

Makes eye control on the EOS 5 work like a dream, and it's my #1 portrait lens. Superb

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85L tried out, but too clunky compared to the 85 f/1.8 which is L-series sharp & contrasty.

Fast, sharp, well made and easy to AF or MF

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This is one of my favorite lenses. It's obviously great for portraits but also as an all-around lens due to its fast aperture and natural perspective. If you use a tripod, you can get really big enlargements compared to the long end of a typical 24-85 or 28-105 zoom.

The balance is perfect on my EOS5 (not as good on a EOS1N/3 with booster). The AF is blazing fast but most of all I like the ability to manual focus without moving the AF/MF switch. The wide rubberized focus ring turns smoothly--almost as smooth as a real manual lens!

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OK

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EF135/F2.8 SF

Relatively light, well-made, nice USM focusing, incredibly sharp (often need to use Canon's Softmat 1 with it!, good value for the money.

Don't care much for dinky clip-on shades, but it's effective. Stores OK in my camera bag with shade attached to lens.

The classic portrait lens, plus a super available-light optic. I have made the 85mm focal length my standard people lens for years (especially for shooting women!)It's L-series optical quality with out the price. I recommend using a soft focus filter on it, as the resolution of the EF 85mm f/1.8 is so high that it might be unkind to some subject material, like pimply-faced teenagers. This is a good example why they refer to single-focal length optics as 'prime' lenses.

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Never required any on EF lenses.

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FD 85mm f/1.8

Light, compact and good color reproduction and Fast AF speed, 1/2 stop more than his brother 100mm/2.
Good portrait lens

Sharpeness is little bit worse than 100mm/2.
85mm range is covered by most standard zoom lense, so the portability for the landscape/travel is not so good.

The light weight and good quality of this lens at the price level is amazing. However, due to the overlapped zoom range if using some standard zoom lens, most people will consider 100mm/2.

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no idea

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EF 35-70 f3.5-4.5
EF 28-70 F2.8l
EF 70-210 f3.5-4.5
EF 70-200 f2.8l