Comparison of primes on M6II and R, and general comparison of M6II with R

Alastair Norcross wrote:

RLight wrote:

2 cents, what their worth...

50mm is more useful than 85

More useful, yes, I agree. but I still prefer the output of the 85, when it's used for what it is useful for.

Agree on use case for the 85; it's unique, and 90mm isn't quite 85mm

I gave the EF 85mm f/1.8 USM adapted a go on the R for a while and gave it back: limited usefulness. Exactly what you want for a portrait, or various object photography with some limited landscape use, but otherwise it's a one trick pony, a very good one trick pony though (85mm that is).

But again, that's where a Sigma, on an M, makes a little more sense: smaller, lighter, cheaper. I just wish it was a true 85mm. Never going to happen, Sigma is as good as it gets as I sincerely doubt Canon is touching the M for probably a good year or so and likely for a body refresh of some kind as that's what they do for the Rebels these days.

Back to the one trick pony for a minute, that's where I'm a sucker for the EF 85mm f/1.2L II, I just love it's colors, bokeh drawing and bokeh quantity... Other offerings, even Canon's own EF 85mm f/1.4L, aren't the same in my viewing...

What I found is more useful, and I'm not trying to sell anyone on "Goliath", is the RF 28-70 f/2L, it really is a bag of primes...

Stumbled upon this when filtering on 56mm to find my Sigma shots in archive

I never have to swap a lens, wonderful bokeh drawing, colors, and 70mm isn't 85mm, but it's close enough without duplication lens efforts. When you start to consider how much buying all these primes costs, and how often f/1.2 is really needed, this starts to make alot of sense (RF 28-70 f/2L) even from an monetary perspective where do you buy a RF 50 and RF 85, RF 35, EF 28 (f/1.8)? And if buying the non L flavors of these, you loose coatings, weather sealing and USM motors, etc... But you get F/2, L-flavored F/2 at that.