Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM sample shots

Photozone has their review up. Looks pretty darn good!

http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/752-canon_40_28_ff

Well, the MTF from canon certainly looked promising, and PZ has pretty much confirmed it, razor sharp centres wide open and slightly better again stopped down a bit. I'd be a bit concerned about stop-down-focus-shift, but from f/2.8 to f/4 at anything normally framed (like 2+ metres away), that's going to be a non-issue.

Now the real dilemma, next time I want to take out the Nodal Ninja for some spherical panoramae at f/5.6, do I take the pancake or the Samyang?

Have just been looking at the ISO charts for this lens. To say that I'm surprised is an understatement. While I wouldn't use the "Razor Sharp" term it is very good for such a low cost lens.

OK Canon, does this mean a new Pancake family?

My definition of 'razor sharp' is anything that outresolves the 5D2 sensor, at least in the centre at f/4-5.6, at PZ's 3700 mark.
Like the TS-E 24, 24/1.4L, the Samyang 35, the 14/2.8LII, the 85/1.2LII (almost).
I'm happy putting the 40mm Pancake in the same basket as those ones, and it's even cheaper than the Samyang and has AF too.

I've got the 35 1.4L and the 50 1.4, so I also don't need it. However, I have used the 35L mostly at state fairs, or other night photography situations, where I wanted something wider than the 50. I can imagine using the 40 pancake lens for the night shots. It will give me nearly as wide as the 35L (which I stop down to 2.8 anyway) and won't stick out of my 5D2 nearly as much. Hey, for $200, what's not to like?

Just playing with the 40mm pancake. Nothing special.

Empty bowl (almost)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7131/7...8699dbaf_c.jpg

Tree in my backyard
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7131/7...8620d659_c.jpg

With 12mm extension tube
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7127/7...ff173323_c.jpg

First time out with the new little guy, both taken with the 5DII:

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I just pulled the trigger on one of these cheap things also. I have the 35 f/2 and have never been happy with both the IQ and its focusing speed. I think if i like this, the 35mm is gone. I never need the extra stop anyway.

/sigh

Looks like I'm going to have to spend more money... again.

Don't know about y'all but I felt as though the af speed was Considerably slower with this compared to evn my 50mm 1.8. I had a chance to try one out in Kansas city, af speed is why I didn't pull the trigger.