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Yes, the Canon 85 f 1.2 is a terrific lens.
If you haven't bought it, may I suggest trying the Zeiss 85mm f 1.4 lens. It is a Zeiss Planar construction, terrific optics at about half the price of the Canon. How'd they do dat? It's a manual focus, which I like for Portraits and I can make sure the eyes are tack sharp and I don't have to worry about the auto focus finding something else. And it's a 1.4 rather than a 1.2.
Whatever!
Just thought I would mention it to you.
Have a wonderful summer if you're located on that part of our earth.
but with manual focus, a less then bright view finder, and human error, you can be sure this introduces a much wider margin for error.
Suffice it to say that if God made a lens any better than the Canon FD 85mm f1.2 L, he kept it to himself.
Our EOS bodies have many focus points to manually choose from, so picking and choosing the one to put on an eye is as easy as ABC-123...so not sure what you're talking about ;-) With AF there is no error...
Blind faith and technology worship...
I've always found MF to be more accurate (at least with a decent viewfinder) than AF, even if one of the 19 gazillion "magic focus points" is dead on the subject.
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