Our Overall Score:
8.6/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £365
You are here of course to read as many reviews of Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens as you can. We’ve searched the web to pull together a list of retailers that are offering Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens and have lots of good detailed customer reviews. Simply click the “View Reviews” button below to read those customer reviews.
There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Canon or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens
Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens scores 8.2/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens scores 8.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens actually comes in below average at £365.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 104 were more expensive and 48 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens.
Prices of products from Canon
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Canon. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Canon, which was £431.49 of the 305 products we found. So Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Canon was £3.99 with the most expensive coming in at £2819.00.
Prices of products from Canon and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Canon that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £844.06, making Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens at £365 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £2799.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.00. In total there were 48 items that were more expensive and 14 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens
Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens scores 9.5/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens is.
Overall score
Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens scores 8.6/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Canon so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Standard Prime Lens
- Brand: Canon
- Model Number: f/1.8
- Ideal for portraitureCompatible with Canon EF mountAperture range: f/1.8 – f/22Silent focus
- EAN: 4960999212906
- Description: The Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Lens is a number one choice for portrait photographers, with a wide aperture and versatile focal length.Capture beautiful people shotsIf you’re an avid portrait or people photographer, you’ll love the combination of a short telephoto 85 mm focal length, large f/1.8 maximum aperture and rapid autofocus in this short/medium telephoto lens.Enjoy sharp, clear photographs at all apertures with the EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Lens thanks to its virtually circular aperture diaphragm, which helps you achieve softer, more even out-of-focus areas. Better facial photographyBecause of its short telephoto focal length, the EF 85 mm compresses perspective to a certain degree, reducing the size of prominent facial features for photos that are more flattering to your subject.Subjects that are in-focus will achieve superb definition and contrast against blurred backgrounds, so portraits in particular will attain a compelling look.Versatile in different lighting conditionsThe Canon EF 85 mm Lens offers a large maximum aperture of f/1.8 that lets you shoot hand-held in even difficult conditions with poor lighting. You’ll be able to get more creative with the way it restricts depth-of-field.A non-rotating front element during focusing allows you to use specialist filters such as polarisers and graduates, giving you greater control and creative options.Ghosting and flare from light bouncing off the sensor are drastically reduced thanks to Super Spectra coatings. You’re ensured of exact colour balance and boosted contrast.Ultrasonic focusing mechanismThanks to its USM focus motor with full-time manual focus, the lens performs with superb quietness, whether you’re using manual or automatic focus.A ring-type ultrasonic motor drives autofocus very rapidly, in virtual silence. You’ll be able to achieve the point of focus easily and precisely because of its excellent holding torque, without overshooting. Adjust focus without leaving AF more with the inclusion of full-time manual override.In addition to these features, the EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Lens is able to convey distance information back to a compatible EOS camera’s E-TTL II flash system, so that you achieve optimum flash metering.Make sure you’ve got the ideal portrait lens in your arsenal with the Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM Lens.
- Product ID: 3094661315
