John you got it pretty bad. You are one of the reasons I tip-toed around the greatness of the 85L. I didn't want to be responsible for perpetuating your illness.


I use to walk the line of L addiction but then I lost my day job and went full time photographer. From that point (since money was scarce), I decided to own lenses that I could make money with or that would enhance the work I was already doing. So I sold some zooms and since and went with primes. I work mostly for a health care provider/hospital and can control most aspects of shoots I shoot mostly with 85L and 50L with occasional 35L. Occasionally I have to cover events for them so I keep the 24-70 around for that. It is also macro enough for product and food shots for what I do. Every so often I have to shoot interiors and the occasional helicopter flight so the 16-35 comes in handy there. I also keep the 100-400 around to have a nice tele range covered.


The only other lens I plan on adding is the 135L. I'll probably pick that up in the next month or so. If I find the 135 doesn't fill my tele needs I may look into the 200 2.0. But I think the 135 will be long enough.