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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
Timbukto Veteran Member • Posts: 4,988
Re: What happened to your 85mm 1.8 when you got a 70-200 2.8?

This lens has high copy to copy variability. I owned a copy that looking back I would never get rid of it had I a second chance. Now I have another newer copy and I am absolutely fine with selling it. It makes that much difference to me. A great copy can give sharp infinity scenes wide open but the average copy will mess up somewhere in the frame. I can show full crops of a typical copy later.

I I would never sell a golden 85 1.8 again. And sadly I probably won't happen across one all to easily. I consider Horshacks copy also clearly imperfect in his 5DS landscape shots with the left side clearly curving in field in a manner that does not occur on the right.

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