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Cons: Heavy, no tripod mount.

Pros: Exceptional sharpness, smooth and creamy bokeh, focuses easily, colours are naturally vivid.

Summary: The best 135mm lens, I have ever used. This lens is great for shooting fashion and landscapes.

Cons: Its plastic build shaves off a lot of weight, so you sacrifice a bit on the robustness for lower weight. The focus ring is a wee bit grindy in 5-3 meters range, you wouldnt notice it unless you were looking for it.

Pros: Jawdropping optics for the price. This thing easily trades blows with Zeiss 135/2, leaving both canon and nikon variants (all of them) in the dust. Its sharpness is very good even for 20mpx MFT bodies. Compared to the old 85/1.4 AS IF, the lens hood is much better (85/1.4 hood was a bad joke, capable of falling off if you shake it a bit) and short enough for focus ring to be usable with it reversed. And the lens cap has holes for pinching it open which makes it usable with the hood on, unlike the 85/1.4.

Summary: No matter the system youre on, if you want a 135mm, this is it.

Cons: No tripod foot. Focus is a bit stiff, not smoothly damped. Clicks on aperture ring not very distinct. Hood is a bit flimsy.It is not at all shoddy, but build is not very high quality.

Pros: Spectacularly sharp and free of optical flaws. Resists flare well. Good contrast. Nice out of focus rendering. Reasonable size and weight, given its focal length and max aperture.

Summary: One of the best lenses I have ever used, inpure image quality. Unbelievably good performance for the price. Yup, all manual, no IS...this limits the scenarios you can use it in. Action is tricky, and in low light you need support. But amazing when it comes together!

Cons: Heavy for my Fuji XT1. I found it manageable only with the optional power grip. When fitted, the lens balances much better. Critical manual focusing, takes time and skill to get it right. I started off by getting in-focus about 65% of my shots, to end up near 90% after some good training. Shutter speed needs to be shorter than or at least equal to 1/250s for getting consistently sharp images.

Pros: Amazing sharpness and clarity at all apertures with exceptional bokeh. It is comfortably my sharpest (and heaviest) lens!

Summary: A gem of a lens with amazing value for money, but not for the faint-hearted. It requires skill, persistence and patience to get the best out of it. But then, they say, \"good things go to those who wait\"!

Cons: Manual focus, but in my Nikon D750 i have the dot focus confirmation so it's not a big problem. No stabilization.

Pros: SHARP and contrasty from f2.0! Beautiful bokeh.

Summary: Get one! Especially if you shoot Nikon.

Cons: big

Pros: sharp sharp sharp; contrasty

Summary: wow! get one! this lens is unbelievable. I sold my Pentax 50 135 immediately when i compared it with this beauty.

Cons: No autofocus, no stabilization

Pros: I use it for astrophotography, and point light sources on black ground are a nightmare for all optics. This lens is totally sharp and colour free to the FF edge wide open at f/2. Unbelievable! See: http://www.astrobin.com/228813/

Summary: Best optics in any tele lens I have ever seen. Number one in my collection.

Cons: Not distributed everywhere for m4/3 Focusing is critical but is awaited for this range of focal Heavy

Pros: Razorsharp from f/2 to f/5.6 (best @f/4) Smooth but firm focus ring Great contrast and micro-contrast Short minimal focusing distance Pouch & reversible hood included Price

Summary: On m4/3 hybrids, the utilization differs from the initial goal : it's more of a telezoom than a portrait lens, but the sharpness in the distance is still beautiful. To shoot a really far subject, the hyperfocal helps a lot, because focusing is tough without assistance like focus peaking. Real bargain but if the canikon versions are easy to get, the m4/3 & 4/3 are a nightmare to find... (in western Europe anyway)!

Cons: *very critical manual focusing, split-field or microprism screen necessary ; needs getting used to *slightly heavy

Pros: *incredible sharpness, contrast, colour and bokeh at any aperture *beautiful rendering *short minimal focusing distance *price

Summary: *will serve for portraits *will accompany my 24-70 f/2.8 II while traveling *definitely a great bargain

Cons: a bit heavy hard to nail focus even with split field (to be expected) slow to work with

Pros: very, very good sharpness, contrast and color wide open perfect portrait lens on full frame

Summary: get one