p.3 #1 · Owning both 100 F2.8 and 135 F2 overkill?
Have both 100 mm L macro and 135 L. Use the 100 macro for flowers
and museums. 135 L is a great lens for inconspicuous people
photography in places like Vegas. Vegas now mostly enforces
a ban on photography of gambling activity.
p.3 #5 · Owning both 100 F2.8 and 135 F2 overkill?
My first L lens was an EF 100/2.8L Macro IS, in late 2010. I added my 135L in March 2012, largely for indoor youth swimming. I did not find that having both a Macro L and a 135L was duplication, but I was not shooting PJ, and did not have a tele-zoom lens until much later, when I bought an EF 100-400L II IS, to complement my 24-105L.
I do not find 100mm and 135mm to be all that close, in focal length and angle of view. As the light gets low, f/2 is noticeably useful, even if I have f/2.8 lenses. The focal length I have found unnecessary, for a specific lens acquisition, thus far, is 85mm.
I found the EF 100/2.8L Macro IS to be of sufficient importance that I bought a second one, as a form of instant insurance, when the price dropped to $850 US. Until my recent retirement from police work, one of my duties, from 2010 to the end of 2017, was documenting injuries, largely facial and neck injuries, on the persons of living, breathing assault victims.
