Canon 135mm f/2 L USM EF Review Round-Up

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Photo Zone:

The Canon EF 135mm f/2 USM L is a superb lens with outstanding performance figures in all aspects except maybe vignetting at the max. aperture setting (f/2). The mechanical construction is up to pro standards and the AF is as fast as it gets in EOS land. All-in-all a lens that truly deserves the Canon L designation. READ FULL REVIEW

Other Canon 135mm f/2 L USM EF Reviews

SLRGear

This is an absolutely stellar lens, probably one of the sharpest and most distortion-free that Canon makes. It starts out very sharp at f/2.0, gets even sharper at f/2.8, and softens only slightly at f/11. At f/32, it’s pretty soft, but less so than a lot of lenses at that aperture. Bottom line, this is just an outstanding lens by any measure, one that makes clear why you’d want to pay the freight for expensive prime glass. – Actually though, it’s performance is so good that you really have to consider it a bargain, even at the $800-900 street price. It just doesn’t get any better than this! READ FULL REVIEW

Photozone

The Canon EF 135mm f/2.8 SF may be old but it was still able to delivery very good performance figures in all aspects. Nonetheless there ´re many lenses including zooms which are capable to deliver similar and even better. So at the end of the day the only real differentiator is the soft-focus feature. On paper it may be worth a thought (if this is your thing) but if you ´re into digital photography you should be able to achieve a similar effect using Photoshop. A real plus is the very affordable price though. READ FULL REVIEW