New Canon 40mm Pancake Lens - I already love it ;-)

[Sascha Rossier]

http://gizmodo.com/5916341/canons-fi...or-its-closeup

Yeah! imma save some cash already for this little sukka ;-)

[Nick Pasquariello]

I saw that earlier too. Is there any benefit other than portability? Does the image suffer in any way? Having never used a pancake lens, I really have no frame of reference . . .

[J Taylor]

+1 very curious about quality, seems like the main sacrifice is lens speed

[Andy White]

Very much like the ones for the Micro Four Thirds. Small size and useful - the Panny one is F1.7.

[Jeffrey Loewe]

I wonder how this will compare to the Voigtlander one... There's is a Pancake to right?

[Phil Holland]

Yep. I use that Voigtlander 40mm f/2 Ultron SL II EF pretty regularly for stills. I tested it out on Scarlet, never used it on an Epic yet. I will say the build quality of the Voigtlander is going to be hard to beat.

[Chris Jordan]

Yep. I use that Voigtlander 40mm f/2 Ultron SL II EF pretty regularly for stills. I tested it out on Scarlet, never used it on an Epic yet. I will say the build quality of the Voigtlander is going to be hard to beat.

but what about price?

[Mark Nicholson]

I'd rather use an EF converted Konica 40mm 1.8, but its nice that Canon is making a pancake.

[Todd T]

A quick search shows pricing of $199.