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Cons: Expensive to buy and soft wide open. Visible chromatic aberrations. Admittedly not lightning fast to focus but fairly reliable.

Pros: Excellent build quality; solid and well balanced on 5D series of cameras in particular. Outstandingly beautiful and unique (in my experience) background blur can be obtained at wide apertures. Colour rendition is wonderful, especially in the red tones. It\'s an old lens, but still fantastic for portraiture and its focus hit rate, especially with a shallow depth of field, would be improved considerably on a mirrorless camera, if you can live happily with an adapter.

Summary: This lens was never meant to be valued in terms of its critical sharpness, any more than its f/1.0 predecessor was. The whole point of owning an f/1.2 lens is to achieve stunning results by opening the aperture to somewhere close to its maximum, typically on headshots of people or animals. I must correct an earlier contributor who referred to the manual focus function as \"by wire\". It isn\'t, which is obvious from turning the focus ring to refocus when your camera is turned off. To be honest, I would have expected someone who also claims to be a professional photographer to know that.

Cons: Another fabled prime, another burst bubble. Wide open its quite soft, paying this much money for an f/1.2 lens, one would expect it to be at the very least usable wide open. Suffers from slow AF and focus by wire MF. I find myself using Samyang XP f1.2 primes, seems they too optics much more seriously than canon.

Pros: Not much, the 85mm f1.2 was unique to canon EF unlike this. There are optically far superior and less obnoxiously expensive alternatives to this lens.

Summary: The 85/1.2 g2 I can recommend, to some people. This I cannot.

Cons: High chromatic aberration. Not very sharp. Strange bokeh at some geometries.

Pros: Very beautiful bokeh under most conditions. Nice colors. Build quality. AF is accurate and fast enough for purpose of this objective, however this is not an action glass. Huge aperture. Feeling.

Summary: Nice objective for feeling photography, but unfortunately not as perfect optical performance as I expected at this price level. If you know that you want it, buy it, but if you have to ask, consider some cheaper alternatives.

Cons: None

Pros: Sharpness, colour and contrast, bokeh, Build, AF accuracy and speed, results

Summary: Since I purchased it, the 50L has become my 'go to' lens. It's always on one of my camera bodies. I was surprised at the responsiveness and accuracy of the AF, having read so many negative reviews. The 50L is a big leap up from my 50 f1.4, which I keep but use much less. The results from the 50L are exceptional, especially if you're shooting into the sun. This is my favourite Canon lens.

Cons: Indescrete. Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG is almost as good.

Pros: Very sharp. Colours.

Summary: It's funny how the reviews for EF 35mm f/1.4L and EF50mm f/1.2L differ. The MTF50 charts for the image resolution shows 50L is as sharp in the edges and much sharper than 35L in the centre, but in 35L review it gets praised for it's sharpness while in 50L review, the image quality is weak.