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What happened to your 85mm 1.8 when you got a 70-200 2.8?

Started Nov 1, 2015 | Polls thread
Abbott Schindler Veteran Member • Posts: 3,111
Re: What happened to your 85mm 1.8 when you got a 70-200 2.8?
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diness wrote:

I have contemplated the thought of selling my 85mm 1.8 and Tamron 70-300 VC and picking up a Canon 70-200 2.8. I would definitely need to sell the 85 though... so here's the question. When you picked up a 70-200 2.8, what happened to the 85? Did you keep it? Get rid of it? Why?

I assume you're talking about the 70-200 f/2.8L (II), not the original...

If you 'definitely need to sell' the 85, then what's the point of this thread? 'Definite' seems pretty definitive.

However, if you don't 'definitely' need to sell, then consider:

- With any camera, an f/1.8 lens will let you shoot at lower light levels, and/or use lower ISO, and will also let you get shallower DoF (and the 85's bokeh is pretty nice).

- If you frequently use 85mm FL, then the 85's a LOT smaller than any of the 70-200's.

Me? I bought the 85 AFTER I'd owned the 70-200 for several years. I bought it for all of the above reasons. I don't use it (or my 135 f/2L or 50 f/1.4) much, but it sure is great to have them when I'm shooting an indoor event. Sometimes I'll carry one of my zooms on one body and one of the fast primes on another.

Things are going to change for me this week, when my FF body arrives. The 85 and 135 are going to be much more useful on it than on my APS-H and APS-C bodies.

Abbott

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