Pancake Lens

If you’re looking for a versatile yet inexpensive lens that gives great image quality then a pancake lens is a great option to consider.

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Collecting the perfect travel photography gear is a mixture of art and science. Balancing functionality and preparation with agility and...well, weight. No matter what you do, you'll wish you brought just one more thing. Here's the minimal travel camera kit I take everywhere.

As a minimalist (read, "simpleton"), there's something that appeals to me about prime lenses. Unfortunately, the other side of being a minimalist (read, "cheapskate") means that I tend to avoid using gear that doesn't offer flexibility. When I randomly treated myself to Canon's budget, plastic 40mm f/2.8 pancake, little did I realize how much joy it would bring me. My kit is

The concept of the pancake lens has interested me for a while now, so when Canon announced its 40mm pancake lens I bought one. So far it has proved a useful addition to my lens collection. But what exactly is a pancake lens? Is the lens as good in practice as I hoped? Here are […]

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A new lens got a funding campaign at Kickstarter. The ExperimentalOptics 35mm f/2.7 full frame pancake lens claims to the “Smallest Fastest Pancake Lens in the World”. About the mount type they say “the lens has a clever combined Leica M and M39 mount to make it universally adaptable to virtually any camera (apart from SLRs),…

Alongside picture and spec leaks for Canon's soon-to-be-announced T4i, details on their up and coming 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens have also surfaced. Besides

They seem to have gotten a boost in popularity. What is a pancake lens and is one of these unique lenses right for you? Helpful guide to short, lightweight lenses.