Best reviewer on KZfaq, period. Insightful. Thorough. Practical. Genius. Thank you Dustin!

@dustin abbott gives the the best and most thorough reviews hands down...this guy is brilliant and knows how to capture an audience....great work

Thank you for your candid, frank and accurate reviews. You are a strong influence on my purchasing decisions!

Great balanced review Dustin! Just acquired the 85mm GM and for the price paid I’m glad to see you hit on some of the len’s redeeming features. After all, this is a professional grade lens. Thanks

Hi Dustin, a really good review of the 85 / 1.4 GM - thanks! 👍🏻

What the focus performance characteristics seem to indicate is that the lens KNOWS where it needs to be focus wise (hence the large number of tack sharp images), but the motor is SLOW to accelerate and catch up (hence the bad misses). This probably also accounts for the stumbles and pauses which may be when the focusing group needs to decelerate, stop then go in the other direction.

Can't wait for your review of the Sony 135mm F1.8 GM. You're probably the only one who will test it against the Milvus 135mm (assuming that you'll get your hands on that GM eventually) 😃

Thumbs up! I wish there was someone like you that can give an all-across objective and comprehensive approach to cinema lenses.

You're the best, really, such a great review with important comparisons to other lenses. Thanks so much!

Excellent review as always. I've been itching for this one.

Great review. I just visited your website and I fully support what you say and review. Gorgeous work. You are the real deal and I’m going follow more of your work. Thank you for sharing. Phelix. 👍🏾

Finally, someone wasn’t paid by Sony and can admit that there is a noise when focusing. People been complaining about it since its first release.

85gm is my go to portrait lens.

This lens is like a fine Swiss watch. Oh, forgot to mention that it takes incredible pictures!

Tnx for you review. Honesty and not bias is the way to go. Tnx again.

Should I buy 1 Sony 85mm f1.4 or 3 Samyang 85mm f1.4? 🤔

Sony has their act together, I wished Canon would get there with the mirrorless lineup in regards to the bodies.

Thank you Mr Abbott

Great reveiw! I was thinking if i use 85 mm on apsc mode on my sony a7riii it should technically reduce the coma chromatic abberations astigmatism in corners for astrophotography because it should crop the corners .. Is that technically correct to have such expectations ??😅

Another great review Dustin! I own this lens and love it. After that new firmware update for the A7r3, I found the lens focuses way better. And yes there is some noise when focusing but that's the least of my worries. Keep up the great reviews Dustin!

Dustin, this lens has a major flaw! It doesn't open the aperture to obtain focus with Profoto remote flash trigger and other triggers in the studio, makes it impossible to obtain autofocus. Yes, turning off liveview is the solution, but this is the only lens that has that flaw. And this is the premium lens :)) My experience- doesn't worth the money. Optically - it's exceptional, but usability is not good. Looses focus too often, slow to focus. Real life photos are rather clinical. Skintones rendering - not very person has pink skin. I gravitate to use more often Canon 200 mm 2.8 LII with MC-11. To me Canon has better colors and more organic look, I understand the focal length difference, it's not it. I find Canon is sharper with 42 MP body. Sony GM 85 mm 1.4 did not live to my expectations and most of the time collects dust while I'm enjoying Canons. Having that experience, I would go with Batis 85 1.8 for native Sony 85 lens, not GM :))

Hi Dustin, great review like always. I wonder if you'll ever make a review of the sony 135 GM, i'd love to hear your opinion about that lens. Thank you for your work!

Hi Dustin as always and just like everyone else I wanted to thank you. I do have a question: Was this review before the firmware update? Have you performed a firmware update and has it improved the autofocus performance? Thanks again, and keep up the awesome work!

Can’t decide between the 85 gm and the sigma 105... weight is not a problem. What would you suggest?

Dustin did your copy sound like a xerox machine when focusing in photo mode? Trying to figure weather mine is defective or just designed to be quite loud. I don't hear the sound in video mode tho which is strange.

Thank you for this

Have you tried the Canon RF 85mm f1.2? If so, which of them do you prefer?

Buy the Sony 85mm 1.8 and by an Godox 400Pro for the rest off the money! Good review as always! Thanks 👍

Hi Dustin, I have been following your reviews with great interest for months now and I have completely entrusted you to buy the GM 85 1.4. Great lens with incredible pastosity in out of focus. But .... But..... One thing that has left me a little perplexed, however, is that unlike your test, my lens has the cat's eye geometry in out of focus just outside the central circle. Near the corners it is very pronounced and in the corners it is incredibly oval. In your opinion what could it be? Greetings from Italy

Dustin have you compared the GM to the Batis? If I were to get an 85mm I think it’d be one of those. I have the 24-70GM and I live it but all the Batis lenses I have tried have been stellar and there’s something special about Zeiss. Curious on your thoughts. Cheers!

I'm wondering what's your personal favorite Sony FE native lens?

I will stick with my zeiss 85 for now however I wish Sony would make a 85 1:2 thanks again love your channel

9:05 I saw a cat in the view.

Massive lenses, small bodies, not a comfortable combination. The truth about FF mirrorless cameras. Still Sony have done a great job 🎥🎥🎥Good review - thank you.

it's better weather sealed ( probably ) than the others. how can you make a statement like that when in reality you have no idea if it's better weather sealed than the Sigma or Samyang. it's just all assumptions that because it's a GM it must be better sealed. and Sony counts on people thinking that witch is why they get away with there high price tags. I really think it's about time that the camera industry sets a standard that a manufacturer has to meet for weather sealing before they can say there lens is weather sealed or resistant, and then a camera company can have a little symbol that shows that there lens meets the standard, just like a motorcycle helmet has for safety. and if it goes beyond the standard than the company can brag about how good it's weather sealed.

I think I will stick with my badse

AF motor is slow

had it. sold it. too heavy.

This channel has been hacked today

Even if Canon, Nikon, Pany went at a lens release pace double that of Sony, they would need 3 years to catch up to Sony today. Meanwhile, Sony keeps developing new lenses so CNP will need to run at a pace more like 3:1 of Sony just to catch up, nearly impossible. CNP brands will need to either (1) cut loose incredible development resources or (2) quickly build out a tier (e.g., high end) for their releases in a shrinking market. Meanwhile, Samyang, Tamron, Kamlan, Zeiss, Voitlander, and Sigma are going deep into Sony development so their resources are tapped so do they really want to jump into an unknown CNP future? - probably limited at best. It must really suck right now to be faced with these issues at Can-Nik-Pany.