In my career as mostly a studio photographer, the 85 has always done the heavy lifting, complemented by 50 and 135. I always got the best/fastest available, not because I care much about bokeh, but because the understanding that these were developed specifically for portraits: how they render the skin (color and contrast) and how gently they transition to the oof region. I transitioned to the Z 50 and 85 1.2s and I now ordered this one.
The example you posted, in my work, would be done with an 85. The 135 is for faces at the optimum (for me) distance from the sitter. Half body is 85 and full body is 50.
The IQ will not be different from your 1.2s.
But it's really not about not having the lens in hand, it's about Nikon not saying a word about what's going on leaving the customer, me, utterly in the dark. If I'd had any inclination it was going to take this long I would have just defaulted to the fact that lens isn't actually available and would have, as my lawyering pals like to say, 'governed my behaviour accordingly.' Pissed at my retailer more, actually -- they are unwavering on their (once made sense) required deposit for orders of big glass, which makes no sense in this new world of 'announce. launch. ship date promise. trickle delivery maybe.' So they won't even let me spend my deposit on something else and stay on the list for the 600. Which is funny in a Kafkaesque kind of way (perhaps I over state it LOL).
