Canon EF 135mm f/2.8 Softfocus lens: a telephoto lens that blurs reality

Introduction Wedding, portrait, and landscape photographers can use Canon’s EF 135mm f/2.8 Softfocus lens to create pictures with dream like qualities – the lens allows photographers to add a blur effect, creating heavenly halos around subjects.  Relatively affordable and lightweight, the digital version of the 25-year-old EF 135mm f/2.8 Softfocus lens – also capable of snapping razor-sharp images – could be a creative asset in a photographer’s lens kit.Canon’s sample images illustrate the EF 135mm f/2.8 lens softfocus feature, left, in action.  On the right is a photo taken with the softfocus feature turned off.