Canon 35mm f/1.4L Vs Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L II USM Lens

[HDNitehawk]

Lets say, for a typical wedding or birthday party, which one is better and which one would have more bokeh?

Since I never have shot a weeding, I can't say on a typical wedding. But as for birthday parties, having five kids and eight grand kids I get this opportunity.

Bokeh would be a rare thing indoors with these lens (at least by the standards of what I consider bokeh to be which would be an area completely blurred). It is much more about out of focus areas.

The wider the lens the deeper the depth of field at equal appertures. The 24mm on a full frame camera would give you far less out of focus area as the 35mm.

One thing the 35mm is good at, you can shoot a subject at a wider aperture and really put the surrounding back ground out of focus to draw attention to your subject.This type of picture gives you a sense of where you are at, and still isolates the subject. Done properly the 35mm can do it better than any other lens I have owned. Because of the larger depth of field of the 24mm, it is harder to do this than it is with the 35mm. (these are observations using a FF camera, with the Crop Sensor and its wider DOF I think the performance would be different)

[gandhi]

Thank you very much , its an education for me.
My dilemma is 35mm is such an old lens and there must be some kind of update to it in the near future , at the same time bh photo video is giving really good discount on it, so I am not able to make up my mind whether to take it or wait.
I do photography only as a hobby/passion but I dont live on it,so discount is something I look for, I bought 100mm and 135mm in the last two weeks. Looking for the third one...