I don\'t mean to ask you to prove a negative, but... I see a lot of head/head and shoulders portraits on flickr that look like they are in the same league as an 85 1.2. It looks to be exactly what I would want. Do you have any at close range that show how poorly the 85 performs in that context, such that you don\'t even use it? I think it would be very informative to a lot of folks watching this thread.
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85mm is typically considered as portrait focal length. However for some weird reasons Zeiss designed the 1.4/85 so that it\'s optimized to infinity and doesn\'t have floating element. I use it only for \"environmental portraits\" (full body visible or even less magnification) at f/1.4. See example below....
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