I am not sure one can get better quality for the price.

Excellent lens, perfect quality, superb delineation and portability, excellent for background blur, would highly recommend.

Quality lens, good portrait background blur

I love the quality of it.

Not only are images sharp at f/2.8 or f/3.2, but the quality of the background at these f-stops is phenomenal

Great lens, excellent picture quality, really good build

I generally prefer "L" glass, however the quality on this lens rivals the quality of any of my "L" lenses

The quality of photos was very good, especially considering that it cost only $359 at the time

Overall, the quality is well built, compared to the plastic kit lens, and I would recommend this to anyone looking for sharp image quality.

Simply the easiest portrait lens to use and it has superb quality.

Fast focus, great background blur and it seems to be of excellent build quality

Excellent quality for portraits.

and I felt that the 85mm F1.8 gave me the best pictures, though I love the versatility and the quality of those two lenses

I can't recommend this lens for the MC-11 and the A6300 despite all of its good qualities.

I take indoor basketball pictures and this lens improved the quality of the pictures drastically.

Fast AF, great image quality

The quality of this lens is so great and the bokeh of the photos is pretty amazing!

If my lens cannot be repaired at a reasonable price, I'm not sure that I trust Canon's quality control enough to buy a replacement.

Haven't used it yet, but quality looks good so far.

Thanks, good quality and service.

There is nothing that I can complain about this lens at this price point because it has very good built quality, excellent in low light especially freezing motion, and awesome for portraits

I am an amateur photographer, but desire excellent quality when it comes to pictures.

This lens has an exceptional image quality and is fast, accurate, sharp and has a great contrast and color.

I really liked the Sigma f/1.4, and found almost everything about it to be top-quality

It renders sharp, good quality images

Fantastic image quality lens

Great price and the built quality is good, not L

This lens is made in Japan, good quality control.

The quality of thisproduct is SUPERB

The build quality is excellent, I find no inherit weakness in the design

Excellent quality lens, great price.

But if you're on a budget and you still want a great lens for portraits you can't go wrong with this lens, the clarity is top shelf and the quality is great

I am very satisfied with the solid build and the excellent quality shots it can produce.

Amazing image quality, sharp little lens

Imho, the 50mm 1.4 isn't a bad lens but the build quality of the 85mm 1.8, while they look the same, is far more solid

Nice build quality and good glass

Fast-focusing and great image quality.

I first owned it on a crop sensor camera when I was still in school and while I loved the image quality it produced I didn't really like the perspective it gave me on the crop camera

Great quality prime lens with superb price!

This lens has definitely one of the best quality/price ratio

sharp, good quality

For those who are beginning, this is fantastic quality and produces truly professional looking photos, however it's mostly suited for posed shoots

This lens has a beautiful image quality

I was not aware that you couldn't zoom in when I first got it, but that was absolutely my error and does not detract at all from the wonderful qualities of this lens

Excellent build quality and fast + accurate focus

The build quality is excellent since this lens has no external moving parts

is super fast and the build quality feels much more sturdy than the 50mm 1.8.

This is a light weight, fast focusing lens with excellent image quality.

If you have a good quality F/2.8 zoom lens covering 85mm or anything near (example: 24-70 F/2.8 or 28-70 F2.8 or 28-75 F/2.8 or 70-

It takes terrific portraits and allows you to stand back and capture "Moments" Great quality glass.

Very solid good quality

The quality is absolutely stunning!

Wonderful quality for the price!

Sharp as a tack, especially stepped down a bit, good low-light capability, perfectly controllable bokeh thanks to the 8-blade aperture, fast autofocus, and a solid and high quality look and feel to it.

I generally prefer "L" glass, however the quality on this lens rivals the quality of any of my "L" lenses

I love the image quality I get when taking posed portraits

Great image quality, not too bulky, super fast focus, great boket

The optical quality is fantastic, it is built like a tank, and any photographer will tell you that the 85mm focal length is definitely the sweet spot for portraits

Great quality/value.

Great quality for the price range

popular 50mm f/1.8* Comparable image quality to the f/1.2 for a fraction of the size and price

The quality is just phenomenal, the bokeh just striking, and after shooting a wedding last weekend, I use my Canon 50mm f/1.4 much less.

Now, the $350mm lens compared to the much more expensive, much higher quality lens worth $925 is completely unfair.

This lens fit my budget in the $300's and it is relatively light with excellent build quality.

Excellent glass quality as you would expect

other than that a beautiful lens, excellent quality

If you can't get top shelf pro quality images in the studio and in the field with this lens, the blame falls on the photographer not the lens.

The quality of the image is very good, big aperture allow low light hand held shot and create a shallow depth of field

85mm f/1.8 USM Lens is relatively inexpensive but yields very good image quality

However, the optical qualities are the same regardless of the field of view you get and these optical qualities are FANtastic

I find the EF 50mm f/1.4 much more versatile and have better optical quality.

The shallow Depth of Focus allows for beautifully blown out backgrounds and the rounded aperture blades make for wonderful bokeh quality.

I am a hobbyist photographer that wanted a good quality fast prime lens, and this fit the bill without breaking the bank.

Excellent 4/5Build Quality : Very Good 4/5Price value

I love the quality of this lens, especially for the price

Especially if you never owned a 50mm f1.4 or quality prime lens you'll instantly fall in love with either lens

You get a huge bang for your buck and near-perfect optical quality

It's fast, sturdy, focuses just fine and has very good image quality even at 1.8.

I purchased this lens a few years ago, it has amazing image quality on "L" level

Quality for price is hard to beat

I LOVE the quality at f/1.8-f/4.

so I was really hoping this 85 mm lens would allow me to take great quality pictures, including great close-ups of the action, while also being a bit more portable for impromptu outings

Solid build quality, sharp, nice bokeh.

The quality of this lens is astounding.

The build quality is solid, but it's actually quite small

The quality of the images I'm producing with this lens is great

This lens is amazingly sharp; L quality sharp

Now, the $350mm lens compared to the much more expensive, much higher quality lens worth $925 is completely unfair.

The quality is just phenomenal, the bokeh just striking, and after shooting a wedding last weekend, I use my Canon 50mm f/1.4 much less.

you can tell it's not nearly as sharp as it is stopped down just a little.

Sturdily built but not heavy and bulky, wonderful bokeh, great f/stop control, clarity of image - my only problem with it, really, is that it isn't as sharp as I'd like, but that's all-too-easily fixed in Photoshop.

It has some chromatic abberation wide open but still very sharp and stop it down, it is as sharp as $

This lens does well wide open or stopped down as well as in low light situations

At f3.5 this lens is very sharp, every bit as sharp as my 100-400L lens @ 100

If you are in the market for a great cheap non L series lens, I would pick this over the 50mm 1.8.

This lens fortunately as a "cheap" version from the L seri that really pricey, something that I can't afford buying it but Thanks to Canon have created the non series lens that works beautifuly.

Probably one of the best non-L Lens that you can get from Canon for a reasonable price

F/2 L, you will lose your love for 85mm F/1.82

Excellent Bokeh,as good as my L lens

For the price of a consumer zoom, you can have image quality that rivals the finest L series lenses.

Besides that, it's just as good as any of my expensive L lenses

I was contemplating between this one and the more expensive L lens before I purchased this one

I'm an amateur photographer, and I'm in no position to drop thousands on L lenses and the like.

Not as sturdy as the "L" glass, maybe, but it is sharper at the same settings than my 24-105 f:4 L zoom.

Some photographers are gobsmacked that I would dare to shoot sports with a lens that doesn't have Canon's elegant red ring (denoting an expensive L lens) when I have "superior" lenses like the 70-200mm f2.8

So that leaves the very expensive L option

Unless I was a millionaire, absolutely HAD to have the extra f-stop, or die-hard "L" freak, I am more than happy with the 85mm 1.8.It is the most extreme focal length lens I have and works great with my working set of lenses which includes the 24-70L, 35mm f2, and wider lenses

fast AF+ f/1.8 and medium telephoto length allow you to isolate subjects+ Sharp enough wide open, very sharp stopped down to f/2.8-5.6+ VERY easy to travel with (compared to L counterparts)Cons:- AF not quite as accurate as L lenses (misses more than my 70-200 IS II or 50

F/2 L, you will lose your love for 85mm F/1.82

L suffers from quite a bit

If you are in the market for a great cheap non L series lens, I would pick this over the 50mm 1.8.

Plus if you go fixed you don't really need to get the expensive L-glass because there is less glass to cause distortion and aberrations.

I know it is little unfair to compare this budget lens with costlier L

"Let me take your snapshot...from across the room".This is the only non-L lens that has really impressed me.

It feels easily as solid as the L glass that ive used, and is small and compact

Clearly it won't be as good as an L series, so you shouldn't expect perfection, but it still does a fantastic job

You can spend a lot more on an "L" lens like the 85 f/1.2 L II - I borrowed one from CPS - but unless you're making a great deal of money from it, it isn't worth it.

I have a fair collection of primes to compare it to, some of which are L glass, and I've got some great L zooms as well; yet for portraits, I inevitably turn to this specific lens as it outperforms everything else I own in the successful shooting methodologies I find myself returning to over and over

If you want to make your first step up from a kite lens and don't want to spend L money I would recommend buying this lens, I use it at wedding all the time and it gives you nice crisp shots with great

Having the lens in my hand I can say this is a very decent prime glass, well built (not an "L" level), responsive, small and light

To me, its an L: built like an L, color and saturation comparable to an L

Mainly take pictures of my son's baseball games and bought the EF 70-300 F4-5.6 Telephoto (also great, glad my brother-in-law talked me out of the spendy L-glass I was considering!) in the Fall but wanted a lens to do more portraiture-type stuff.

Works every bit as well as my L lenses; I'm very happy with this purchase.

If you can't afford the "L" and don't want to take a chance on the Sigma 85, then this is your only cholce for 85 mm.