One of my favorite quotes;


"If Your Pictures Aren't Good Enough, You're Not Close Enough" - Robert Capa


From my experience on FF, The 85L lets you get closer, subjects tend to have more 3-d effect, like you could rotate around them. When you start shooting past 135 subjects flatten out and starts to look 2-d. I think you have to really look at what each lens does and what your using it for before you worry about the DOF at this or that. You can get a really nice bokeh but your subject may start to look like cardboard cutouts.


Want to see the magic of the 85L walk into Victoria Secrets or open up their catalog. The photographer, Russell James, uses the 85L almost exclusively.