Purple fringing of 85 1.2ii

[Tugela]

Purple fringing can be avoided by not taking extremely shiny or glowing objects under the sun (white T-shirt, et al). I've never seen purple fringing on a red car.

If it is bright enough you will still get scatter, but the fringing will be a different color. I have seen that in some shots if you look carefully. It isn't as obvious as purple fringing off overexposed whites, but it is there.

 

[sdsr]

I've already said it: the 85L is a specialist lens. It was never designed with the intent to shoot action at night. It is a low-contrast, low light portraiture lens. If you can use it for other things, that's great.

Yeah. You're the man. Clearly Canon is clueless about its own lenses when they say about the 85L: "it really excels as a sports photography lens".

I suggest you write to Canon to correct their inept understanding of how to use their lenses...

A few posts ago you commented on its "sloooow focus". Hard to imagine how such a lens would "excel[] as a sports photography lens" but perhaps I'm missing something.

 

[sdsr]

... I saw color fringing even on that Otus, from a review a guy tested, he said that it don't do justice on a the small file sizes, but I still say it, and that made me know that no matter how much a lens cost it does have some flaws.

You'll also find purple fringing via the c. $11,000 Leica Noctilux f.95!

 

[Maiaibing]

A few posts ago you commented on its "sloooow focus". Hard to imagine how such a lens would "excel[] as a sports photography lens" but perhaps I'm missing something.

You are actually missing out on what I wrote.

Canon esspecially marketed the 85L also as an excellent sports/action lens with a much faster AF motor than the original 85L (which is why I reacted too the totally inaccurate claim that this lens was intended and constructed only to do portraits - this is simply complete nonsense).

If you read the early reviews people took the lens to test this out and were less than impressed. AF was still too slow for many sports applications.

Thus Canon's intent when making the lens did not live up to its claims and user expectations - and therefore the 85L II needs an upgrade to faster AF - as I argued for.