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How a Pancake Lens Will Change the Way You Take Photographs

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

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A New Pancake Lens is Coming the ExperimentalOptics 35mm f/2.7 for FF Cameras A new lens got a funding campaign at Kickstarter. TheExperimentalOptics 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

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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.

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Pancake lens as its name suggest is designed to be very compact and small profile. It is usually thinner than most prime lenses. Every mirrorless system has its own version of pancake lens; 17mm f/2.8 (Olympus), 14mm f/2.5 and 20mm f/1.7 (Panasonic), 16mm f/2.8 and 20mm f/2.8 (Sony) and 27mm f/2.8 (Fujifilm). I have a

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When Panasonic showed us the first Micro Four Thirds camera, the DMC-G1, our first question was 'why does it look like an SLR?'. We'd been hoping for a much more compact body, something that more effectively straddled the line between the convenience of a compact and the quality and versatility of a digital SLR. Well, a couple of months ago we were ushered into a private meeting with Panasonic to see the GF1, Panasonic's answer to all those critics who failed to see the point of Micro Four…

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If you’re a lucky owner of an Olympus PEN half-frame camera and you’ve got this lens handy, you may be able to do the impossible: pocket your SLR!

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Pancakes! Everybody loves them, right? Well someone at Canon sure does because they have finally given us a pancake lens for the EOS system. The EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is a full-frame lens (it of course works on APS-C bodies as well). So is this tiny lens a worthwhile addition to your lineup? Read on for my first impressions.

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hin pancake lens, the smallest for Canon’s DSLR and with a useful focal length. Size and versatility and the lens’s main advantages, as well as the main points of this review. Here I will break down the travel photography scenarios when I find the 40mm pancake lens useful. #Canon #photography #lens #review #blog

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Kai’s top reasons why 40mm is the ultimate lens for street photography - DIY Photography || What is the best street photography lens? Is it 50mm, 35mm, or perhaps 28mm? Well, maybe it’s something in between. In this video, Kai Wong grabs a 40mm pancake lens and hits the https://www.diyphotography.net/kais-top-reasons-40mm-ultimate-lens-street-photography/?utm_campaign=crowdfire&utm_content=crowdfire&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest

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Olympus, Micro Four Thirds, camera review, OM-D, photography, Malaysia photographer, photography tips, shutter therapy, street photography

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