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Originally Posted by The1
depends on your use of the 135L the 70-200 2.8II is a bucket load sharper.
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If you mean in low light because of the lack of IS I agree. If you mean just straight MTF and image quality, good as the 70-200 is can you really say that it's "a bucket load sharper" than the 135L? The 135 is one of the sharpest lenses I own.
When I use the 135 it's almost always at f/2 to throw out the background for portraits (and sometimes at f/2 for night/stars scapes. While I'd hesitate to give that up, if I really thought the 70-200II was much sharper I might reconsider. The other factor is that I guess I'm not much of a zoom guy. Over the years I've had and sold a 100-400, 70-200 (non-IS), a 24-70 and 17-40 (along with a bunch of lower end zooms). The only zoom I still have is the 16-35II - and even its continued presence is kid of questionable beside my 24/1.4II and Samyang 14/2.8.