Customer Reviews for Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM Lens, Black (4234C002)
12 reviews
Most helpful positive review
Posted Oct 30, 2025
Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM lens
This is a nice lens, it works well on the R6 MKII. The lens is a nice prime lens to have in your kit.
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Posted Apr 18, 2021
Half the lens it can be (AF crippled in video mode)
I bought this lens to use it as a hybrid solution for wedding photographs and video. Found out through use and several test that canon significantly slows down the autofocus on this lens when in video mode. It to the point to where it’s useless even for a hobbyist I’m a controlled environment. I can use the lens for half of the uses I had planned for it. I’m returning i...
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Posted Oct 30, 2025
Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM lens
This is a nice lens, it works well on the R6 MKII. The lens is a nice prime lens to have in your kit.
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Magicfoto
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Posted Jun 8, 2025
Excellent Lens
Excellent optics and a delight to use. Love this lens!
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S_P00
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Posted Sep 4, 2024
I'm happy with the lens.
I purchased this lens in August of 2024 for my Canon R6M2. I'm happy with the lens overall as it produces good quality images. My only complaint is the time it sometimes takes to focus but as a person that mainly takes landscape photos, it's an issue I can live with. I'm attaching a couple of photos taken with the RF85 F2 for reference.
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Posted Jul 20, 2024
Great Lens
I am enjoying this lens. Good close focusing distance and sharpness. I like the color rendition. Works great on my RP.
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LouR
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Posted Nov 16, 2022
Canon RP & RF 85mm f/2
I needed a lightweight camera for backpacking/hiking. I thought I would give the Canon RP full frame mirrorless a try because it is so light weight. I coupled the RP with the RF 85mm f/2 on a recent trip to Mt. Whitney Portal. I captured some amazing photos of Mt. Whitney during the early Nautical and Civil twilight hours. Temps. around 23 F. and the above package, ...
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JasonM129
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Posted Mar 18, 2022
Great portrait lens
Excellent lens, sharp, lightweight, fast focus. Great dof at f2.
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Hbvideo
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Posted Sep 19, 2021
Portraiture King Lens
Loved my f 1.8, FD version back in the 70s. Love this RF version on my RP today. Image stabilization is my friend for sharp hand-held shots. Bokeh is beautiful. Close focusing distance is amazingly helpful. Compact size and weight are also beneficial.
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Posted Apr 18, 2021
Half the lens it can be (AF crippled in video mode)
I bought this lens to use it as a hybrid solution for wedding photographs and video. Found out through use and several test that canon significantly slows down the autofocus on this lens when in video mode. It to the point to where it’s useless even for a hobbyist I’m a controlled environment. I can use the lens for half of the uses I had planned for it. I’m returning i...
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kknature77
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Posted Mar 19, 2021
Great lens but strange behavior of the focus ring in MF
This lens is really good. It has very good sharpness and I love the bokeh for photographing flowers.
I like to use manual focus for macro photography. Unfortunately, the focus ring on this lens exhibits strange behavior when I set the variable focus ring speed on the camera. If I turn the focus ring at normal or fast speed, the focus responds very slowly and I have to ...
I like to use manual focus for macro photography. Unfortunately, the focus ring on this lens exhibits strange behavior when I set the variable focus ring speed on the camera. If I turn the focus ring at normal or fast speed, the focus responds very slowly and I have to ...
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solobackcountry
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Posted Feb 15, 2021
All-In-One
I absolutely love this lens. This is the RF lens I've been waiting on. I'm using this on the RP body. Optically excellent for my needs and a joy to use. It's an all-in-one general use 85mm prime lens that's good at everything. Some people are griping about the auto focus being too slow but I just don't see it. If f/2 is wide enough for your needs, you will be very happy...
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Lotus Seven
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Posted Dec 20, 2020
Sharp, Beautiful Bokeh and Excellent Image Stabilization
I've tested two examples of the RF 85mm f/2 Macro lens. Both performed superbly for portraits, landscape photography, and low magnification macro work. This lens is sharp across the field of view with little or no vignetting, even wide open. "Pixel picking" using a EOS R (30.3 Mpix) camera showed that this lens was able to resolve line details down to a single pixel lev...
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Lotus 7
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Posted Dec 18, 2020
Sharp, Beautiful Bokeh and Excellent Image sSabilization
I've tested two examples of the RF 85mm f/2 Macro lens. Both performed superbly for portraits, landscape photography, and low magnification macro work. This lens is sharp across the field of view with little of no vignetting, even wide open. "Pixel picking" using a EOS R (30.3 Mpix) camera showed that this lens was able to resolve line details down to a single pixel lev...
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