newworld666 wrote in post #12169772
I 've never seen any animals or machines being faster than my 85L1.2's AF
In real life, I imagine it takes less than 3s from MFD to infinity, and luckily even Usain Bold is really far to reach that acceleration and speed
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.. but 85L's accuracy is a killer that very few lenses can approach (only long tenses 300L2.8, 400L2.8, 500L4.0 etc..) my 135L is in a way less reliable than my 85L ...
I use it for more than 100km/h quadbikes where no 70-200L2.8 can follow or 135L (not enough light)
some samples
http://photos.corbi.eu …ght-sports/13672968_cnPAL
and daytime there is no problem but 85L is magic too for sport, even for panning without IS
http://photos.corbi.eu …12II-Sport/15640581_aERTf
for indoor dog show I didn't worry with it (my 300L2.8 had to climb to 4000-6400ISO) ..
http://photos.corbi.eu …I-Dog-Show/12889317_6hTGt
... Like many other people said, just some training is enough to do every thing with an 85L.
The major problem for photograph, is to be skilled enough to point and track to keep pointing on eyes or faces when a subject is moving, (DOF @f1.2 can be so thin that such mistakes leads to unrecoverable pictures) and people complain on lens and not on their own skill to track a fast subject with a thin DOF.
I 've never seen any animals or machines being faster than my 85L1.2's AF In real life, I imagine it takes less than 3s from MFD to infinity, and luckily even Usain Bold is really far to reach that acceleration and speed
. .. but 85L's accuracy is a killer that very few lenses can approach (only long tenses 300L2.8, 400L2.8, 500L4.0 etc..) my 135L is in a way less reliable than my 85L ...
I use it for more than 100km/h quadbikes where no 70-200L2.8 can follow or 135L (not enough light)
some samples
http://photos.corbi.eu …ght-sports/13672968_cnPAL
and daytime there is no problem but 85L is magic too for sport, even for panning without IS
http://photos.corbi.eu …12II-Sport/15640581_aERTf
for indoor dog show I didn't worry with it (my 300L2.8 had to climb to 4000-6400ISO) ..
http://photos.corbi.eu …I-Dog-Show/12889317_6hTGt
... Like many other people said, just some training is enough to do every thing with an 85L.
The major problem for photograph, is to be skilled enough to point and track to keep pointing on eyes or faces when a subject is moving, (DOF @f1.2 can be so thin that such mistakes leads to unrecoverable pictures) and people complain on lens and not on their own skill to track a fast subject with a thin DOF.
I seriously doubt an 85L could handle HS or higher levels of basketball. That being said, you've managed to do a lot with your 85. 
