Canon EF 40mm f2.8 pancake

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Just read a brief note about Canon's new EF-mount 40mm f2.8 pancake over on LensRentals
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/06/canon-40mm-pancake-how-did-they-do-that

With a very low price ($200) and "excellent" resolution there seems to be a lot to like.

It will be interesting to see more in-depth reviews of this lens's drawing characteristics - with a FF image circle, it might be a useful street lens on M-mount with an adaptor (e.g. $48 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/EzFoto-Canon-Leica-Camera-Adapter/dp/B0063Y0886).

$248 all up for an M-mount compatible quality pancake 40/2.8 sounds pretty interesting to me.
 
Leica seems the only manufacturer willing and able to produce a compact FF camera so far. 40mm is too long for most street shooting on a crop sensor...

But you'll only get one fixed aperture, 2.8 I guess?
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I don't know how you go about adjusting the aperture manually on a lens without a manual aperture ring - can anyone around here answer that?
 
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It's done electronically through the camera, and welcome to 2012 :p

lynnb said:
Leica seems the only manufacturer willing and able to produce a compact FF camera so far. 40mm is too long for most street shooting on a crop sensor...


I don't know how you go about adjusting the aperture manually on a lens without a manual aperture ring - can anyone around here answer that?
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There are some EF -> NEX, 4/3 adapters that have aperture control.

And I'm curious as to how this would work on an Elan 7E. That would make for a very light camera setup and a perfect focal length for a one lens setup. I tend to switch between 35 and 50mm on the EOS.
 
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Like... the 40mm f/2.8 SMC-M?
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Heh, and if you don't want to end up with a 60mm FOV, you have to put it on a Canon, of all things... But that way you get terrible ergonomics and stopdown metering for free :p

Heh - 'full-frame digital' is a 645D anyway. Not sure the Canon would fit.
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Probably not. There seems to be a general shortage of pancakes for medium format APS, though :D
 
Actually, I'm pretty sure that the 40mm f/2.8 DA Limited also covers a 135 frame; but for the purpose of whacking it onto the front of an M-mount camera the SMC-M would be a more practical - and cheaper - choice.
 
A 40mm pancake for EF? And there I was, adapting an Olympus 40/2.0 all along.
Having one with AF and open-aperture metering (as opposed to working-aperture metering) does seem interesting at that price point. Wish it was a 2.0 max. aperture, though.

Personally, I find 40mm to be the ideal one-for-all focal length. Then again, I was never conditioned to only like 35mm. ;)
 
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