I'm spoiled! Now what?

If it helps I just finally bought the 35L after letting it sit in my "shopping cart" for a year and it WOW'ed me again after my 70-200 f/4 did a few years ago.

Thanks! Now I have something new to drool over! LOL

daystar wrote in post #16072254
But I wonder...is the 85 1.8 redundant when I have the 70-200 to cover that length already or is it worth having the faster lens? I just seem to be really intrigued with this lens but don't know if I'm being silly.

I don't think so at all. But I understand that when people are starting there is a tendency to fill in FL's. For some people this is necessary, for others not. Once you get a sizeable lens collection it becomes very obvious that lenses are all different.

I could easily see how someone might have an 85L, 85 1.8 and 70-200 f4 (or even f2.8) for instance.

Go Full Frame

that will get you wowing again.

daystar wrote in post #16072254
But I wonder...is the 85 1.8 redundant when I have the 70-200 to cover that length already or is it worth having the faster lens? I just seem to be really intrigued with this lens but don't know if I'm being silly.

A faster lens does 2 things for you, you can shoot in lower light than normal, because you can open the lens up wider, at the expense of DOF...

BUT

The control of DOF you get with an f1.8 at 85mm is much more than you are going to get with your 70-200 at f4.

The latter is one of the main reasons to get the 85 1.8 (or 50 1.4, sigma or canon) IMO, especially on a crop body. You get more subject isolation during portraits at f1.8 than you do at f4.

You probably know this though as you have the 50 1.8, but the 85 1.8 is going to produce sharper better images, with much faster more accurate focusing.