Customer Ratings & Reviews

This lens will not steer you wrong. I love the image quality and the speed is also wonderful as long as you change the focusing distance. The the maximum focusing distance it can be kind of slow being that it's a macro lens. The other downside to this lens is that when it does go into macro mode, it is slow at coming out of it so don't look to go directly into another shot after coming out of macro. But other than that, I love the lens and the quality it produces is on par with some of the more expensive ones.

I love this lens. It’s sharp and light weight. It is great for portraits! Yes, there are better lenses but this lens is worth the money and does a great job.

I ditched my sigma EF for this because i also wanted a macro option. I posted a picture taken with this and said it was done with a sigma 85 1.4 and said i shot at 1.4. It was of a couple, no one batted an eye. I love the lens. It does hunt a little longer than my sigma did but who really holding a stop watch to a camera lens.

Excellent lens at an affordable price. If you’re looking to complete your RF Lens Collection without breaking your budget, this lens is the one for you! Provides a great bokeh, has nice macro ability, and is everything you need for professional looking portraits. The focus is a little slow but for the price, you can’t beat it.

Great lens with insane bokeh. A little slow to focus for moving objects, but awesome for portrait and macro photography. Also slow for video but beautiful lens effects on still shots.

This is a great lens and so excited to use it more. It take great close up pictures.

So far this lens is excellent, well worth the price for the versatility of this Macro 85mm, being able to use this for a variety of different uses. The portraits I've taken so far have come out amazing, the F2 allows for a lot of give in lower light environments, was able to use this lens on the shadow side of the Eiffel Tower during sunset and was able to still grab a crisp image. Would Recommend.

This is a great lens for beginners. It is much more affordable than the alternative RF 85mm f1.2! The picture quality and bokeh is excellent.

Beautiful, practical and works wonders the beauty of the bokeh this lens creates with the F2 it really just amazes me I highly recommend this for portraits and let’s not talk about the Macro side of this lens !

Sharp images! I bought this as a beginner who had no idea what I was doing. Didn’t even research it first. Quickly fell in love with the images I was getting. It’s not super heavy and being able to switch from AF/MF quickly is nice. I tend to pick this lens up 9/10 times. Great budget friendly starter.

This Canon RF85mm F2 macro lens has been a great purchase! Clear, crisp images, not too heavy, overall great addition to my R5 setup.

Works well on my R6 Mk2 took it to shoot an event where the lighting was terrible and the focus is not bad it found and held focus even at higher ISO, great lens for the money.

I am quite please with the quality of build, performance and results from this lens. I would not call it a budget lens but it is indeed far less expensive that the Canon ‘L’ variant. However, this lens could easily be used by a professional who wanted to save some money to afford other gear, like a second body with other lenses. I find the bokeh quite pleasing and at portrait distances from subject there is plenty of background separation with the DOF from 85mm f/1.8. Any shallower and the background becomes unrecognizable. 85mm f2 is a sweets spot IMO for portrait work. Offering some macro ability also allows me to get in for tight headshots. I would recommend this to anyone. Pro or amateur alike

A beast. Produces great pictures. Used this indoors at a pretty dim lit venue. Handled it with ease. Produces great bokeh at a really good price. Took it out at dawn downtown and boy did it perform. Made the lights of the city sparkle!!! Using this on an Canon R7 so it's even tighter than 85mm. Zoom is pretty good but you can make it better depending on which type of photos you're taking with the help of the zoom toggle on the camera.

Sharp images but I wish the bokeh was better. The USM 85mm 1.8 I purchased a month ago wouldn’t manually focus so I had to return and I was to afraid to purchase again. I’m loving that the lens is leightweight. I’d definitely recommend.

If you are a photographer you already know that the 85mm bokeh is of the highest standard. Good crisp lens that’s very fast. Truly my new daily driver lens.

High quality, sharp lens well suited for portraits

I love this lense. Out of all my other lenses, this one is my go to for now. Great quality, sharp, and performance is amazing.

Great quality. This lens helps me take great pictures in my studio.

This is a nice prime lens for its low price. Great for low light and produces great looking images.