Primes still better than Zooms

When i buy primes or zooms i always follow few things:

- The lens i buy is highly rated either prime or lens
- The lens i will buy will serve my need or have coverage
- Even the lens i buy that is not of need it should be a high quality or highly recommended/reviewed to buy it
- Watching you or many photography forums samples and impressions, you all saving me money if i want to buy something

So, if i will buy a prime, first i have to see how good is this prime, second, i try if possible to buy a prime that is not covered by one of my zooms unless this prime is something my zooms can't do, such as 300 2.8IS or TS-E lenses or Macro, and i don't need to buy all zooms or lenses there even if i have $$$ millions, to me 5-6 zooms with finest 4-6 primes will be overkill but happy to have, i can have 10 zooms and 8 primes but i will end up using 2-4 primes and 4-6 zooms at most.

Now, i will list my zooms that i like and think they are really good regardless how expensive or how quality they are:

1. 16-35 2.8 mk1
2 - 24-70 2.8 mk1 [i have 24-105 as backup too]
3 - 70-200 [i had mk1 before but sold it to get mkII]
4- 100-400 mk1
I have some more no need to mention as above

From above, all lenses served me well, just i need to be lucky now so i can sell those mk1 and get mk2 or newer versions better quality.

Primes i have:

1. Canon 100 macro
2. Canon 50 1.8 and 1.4
3. Canon 300 f2.8Is mk1
4. Canon TS-E 17 and 24II
5. Canon 135L
6. Canon 15 fisheye
Also i have some more prime lenses but i don't need to mention more
Again, all above lenses are really fine amazing lenses, i don't feel i need to upgrade them except if i just want mkii or newer version, macro lens is terrific sharp, 300 is now serving me well on 1DX, and both TS-E became my main lenses now since i used them since last year, i just only wish to have 400 or 500 or 600 only for birds, but if i buy a zoom such as 150-600 i may not think seriously about super tele prime.
 
They may be sharper but they are less versatile.
 
I honestly think it's horses for courses, for landscapes, I use zooms most of the time, as I'm usually shooting on a tripod, and when you want to tweak the focal range, zooms come into their own. Portraits & wildlife I shoot with primes, partly because generally they are sharper, partly because they generally autofocus quicker(for fast primes), and partly for a specific purpose, for example street photography where you can't control the backgrounds, the 135mm F2 or 85mm F1.2 are great for kicking busy backgrounds out of focus, probably the Canon 70-200mm F2.8 could be utilised for this type of photography, but it's a bit heavy thrown over your shoulder for the day.
 
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