If you really want a cheap and decent pancake f2 lens, grab the minolta 45/2. Convert that. Those are so cheap they are basically giveaways.

-Ed

Ed Sawyer wrote:
If you really want a cheap and decent pancake f2 lens, grab the minolta 45/2. Convert that. Those are so cheap they are basically giveaways.

-Ed


Do they fit without mirror mod on the 5D ?

hard to say. I think probably so. likely depends on the 5d... I don't have a 5d and haven't finished converting the 45/2 yet, but Cogitech had one converted at one point.

-Ed

Marcel VanEerd wrote:
ISO1600 wrote:

Hell, buy a cheaper lens, and a plane ticket to actually go somewhere and take pictures.

+1 I think I've posted this link before. If size and budget matter - check it out:

http://galactinus.net/vilva/retro/eos350d_industar50.html


Just wondering, does Russia make anything that's attractive (female tennis player's not withstanding....) That is one ugly lens.

Stu doing his last name justice...
(sorry...)


Stu Warner wrote:
I'd suggest that you only spend that much on it if, like Brainiac, you absolutely love 40mm (and want a single prime lens solution).

Olympus have cheaper 50mm alternatives. Sure, the 50/1.2 and 1.4 are noticably bigger (and at least a stop faster!), but the Olympus 50/1.8 is a lovely little lens. It's really not that much bigger than the pancake, and it's 1/2 stop faster too. You can pick up one of those for peanuts and spend the other $500+ on other less glamorous lenses.

A Zu 24mm f/2 goes for about $600 for heaven's sake. You did the right thing in sitting back to watch the bidding IMHO. Just because a couple of collectors are willing to out-bid each other for a rare lens, does not mean it is the best inclusion in an active photograher's kit.

That pancake is cute... but there's no way I'd pay more for it than I did for my Zu 50/1.2. Think about it

I will use it mostly for stitched panoramas. I have a Nodal Nina pano head and it makes a difference when the lens is this tiny instead of putting a bulky EOS 16-35mm L zoom on it.

And it is sharper, too.

I just got my OM 40/2 last month after shopping for one for about a year. Got it BIN on eBay for a great deal.

brainiac wrote: