Designed for modern creators, the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM blends flattering perspective with pro-grade optics. Its VCM system offers swift, smooth, and silent autofocus, making it perfect for video recording.
The f/1.4 aperture delivers exceptional low-light performance with creamy-delicious bokeh, while the physical iris control offers smooth, precise adjustments for creative control.
With its innovative design and advanced optics from the RF mount, the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM offers stunning clarity and rich detail, bringing every frame to life with precision and brilliance. With its medium telephoto range and large aperture, this lens transforms the art of portraiture into a seamless and enchanting experience, allowing you to effortlessly capture the beauty of your subjects.
Edge-to-Edge Sharpness
EOS R5 Mark II, 1/160s, f/1.4, ISO100
Experience lightning-fast, pinpoint autofocus with the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM. Built to match your creative pace, its advanced Voice Coil Motor (VCM) transforms electrical energy into smooth, precise movement — locking focus exactly where you want it.
Capable of driving a heavy focus lens group with speed and accuracy, the VCM ensures the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM delivers smooth, precise, and near-silent autofocus during video recording, empowering you to film every cinematic moment with confidence.
The RF85mm f/1.4L VCM achieves outstanding visual clarity through glass-moulded (GMo) aspherical elements that minimise spherical aberrations and control distortion.
The use of a well-positioned Ultra-Low Dispersion (UD) element greatly reduces colour aberrations, resulting in stunningly improved image quality.
Air Sphere Coating (ASC) technology further improves performance by suppressing ghosting and reducing flare, ensuring crisp, high-contrast images even in challenging backlit conditions.
With its wide f/1.4 aperture and 11-blade circular diaphragm, the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM creates soft creamy, cinematic bokeh that adds depth, mood, and emotion to every frame. The large aperture also enables faster shutter speeds and lower ISO settings, allowing you to preserve natural skin tones and fine detail even as the light fades.
Move in close and capture every nuance — from subtle expressions to delicate textures — with 0.12x magnification and a minimum focusing distance of just 0.75m, ensuring your subject remains sharp and full of life from edge to edge.
When recording videos, a typical phenomenon that occurs is a 'pulsing effect' in the footage whereby the camera's angle of view changes slightly during focus racking. The RF85mm f/1.4L VCM suppresses breathing optically in all focus positions, resulting in outstanding video quality with any EOS R camera body.
Measuring just 76.5mm in diameter and weighing only 636g, the RF85mm f/1.4L VCM matches the 99.3mm length and 67mm filter size of other VCM prime lenses. This uniform design lets you switch between lenses without readjusting your rig, keeping your filmmaking workflow fast and effortless.
The RF85mm f/1.4L VCM’s iris ring offers the smooth, intuitive control filmmakers rely on.
Providing precise aperture adjustments similar to those of true cinema lenses, it allows you to shape light with ease, ensuring every shot accurately reflects your creative intent.
Its customisable Lens Function button places key settings at your fingertips, giving instant access to autofocus, exposure, connectivity, and more.
Designed for adaptability, it allows for quick adjustments to suit shifting scenes, so you never miss a moment.
The dedicated focusing ring provides precise manual control and can be customised for additional functions, allowing it to serve as a control ring when paired with compatible cameras.
*the control ring function is disabled when the focus ring is being used as a control ring.
Canon's distinctive knurled control ring allows you to control AF area, shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation, ISO, white balance, colour temperature and even Picture Style.
Engineered for durability, the lens's dust- and drip-resistant construction repels dust and water droplets, ensuring reliable performance in any environment.
The front lens is treated with a smudge-resistant fluorine coating, repelling moisture and oil for a consistently clean and clear surface.
Discover how this medium-telephoto lens empowers you to create expressive, cinematic videos — capturing your story with a perspective designed for filmmakers.
*This product emits low level magnetic flux. If you use an implantable cardiac pacemaker or other medical device and feel abnormalities, please keep away from this product and consult your doctor.
*When the lens is not attached to the camera or the power switch of the camera is in the off status when the lens is attached, shaking the lens may cause the internal lens group to shift and noise may occur, but this is not a malfunction. Although the internal lens group shifts due to vibration such as when the lens is carried, this will not affect aspects such as performance.
*Multiple Exposure mode compatibility, please refer here.
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