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Your opinion: sell 35 or 85?

Started Oct 30, 2021 | Polls thread
Hoka Hey
Hoka Hey Senior Member • Posts: 2,991
Re: Your opinion: sell 35 or 85?

If you do any nightscapes, keep the 35. It has a special coating that brings out the colors of the night sky and the stars and nebulas. You can shoot beautiful panos with it. The only other lens that I'm aware of that has this coating is the RF 85 1.2 (and maybe some of the super expensive lenses, but I haven't checked personally).

Sell the 85 1.4 and get the RF 85 1.2 if you like that focal length. I think that it may exceed the EF 85 1.4 in various categories including focus speed and low light focusing although I have not tested either lens. It also has that special coating which makes it useful for deep sky astro work. (Marco did an excellent thread about this.).

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