Great lens to pick up if you can find it cheap used. Easily a match for its big brother in the "L" gang, but not wide open. Very nice soft focus feature, razor sharp when off, dreamy effects when dialed in.

Small; light; razor sharp; although not edge to edge like the big brother "L"

Lens flare is very pronounced even with a hood against even slightly backlit subjects; Build is cheap; Not a lens I would take through a rough outing

This lens is very easy to use and does what the advertisements say. There are 3 levels of softness of this lens - level 0 is no blur, level 1 is a little softness and level 2 is slightly more softness.

Softfocus is cool.

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.

The Canon EF 135mm f/2.8 With Softfocus Lens is a relatively small, light and inexpensive 135mm lens. The unusual feature of this lens is its softfocus capability . The 135 L has a ring that allows continuous soft focus settings ranging from locked at 0 (none) to 2 with detents at settings 1 and 2.

The lens's main strengths are in the optics and the compact size and discreet appearance. Wide-open sharpness is very good in the center and good in the corners. Center sharpness improves to excellent at f/4 and peaks at f/5.6. Corner sharpness improves to excellent at f/5.6 and peaks at f/8.

Small; cheap; optically excellent; fast-focusing; funky soft-focus effect

Dated build and feature set; hexagonal iris

Canon Ef 135mm f/2.8 Softfocus, as you might have guessed it, is one of very few lenses that implements a shifting aspherical glass elements. When shifted, this aspherical element can cause varying degrees of soft focus.

Tretjega posebneža med preizkušenimi Canon specialnimi objektivi lahko uporabimo kot povsem klasièni 135-milimetrski objektiv. Toda prirejen je predvsem za fotografiranje portretov, zato njegova ostrina posnetka kljub fiksni gorišènici ni v vseh primerih zadovoljiva.