Anyone else excited about the 40mm pancake?

[thekingb]

$199 MSRP! I'm intrigued. I hope the 7D gets a firmware update to allow full time AF in video to take advantage of this lens, but I'm not holding my breath. I wonder if the digic 5 bodies only will get an update. Canon can't have only its flagship rebel with full time AF in video, right?

[Sheiky]

$199 MSRP! I'm intrigued. I hope the 7D gets a firmware update to allow full time AF in video to take advantage of this lens, but I'm not holding my breath. I wonder if the digic 5 bodies only will get an update. Canon can't have only its flagship rebel with full time AF in video, right?

I guess they do... Perhaps more camera's will come out soon(7D mark II?), I don't know. But what I've read is that the 650D has special AF sensors merged into the main sensor so you can have full time AF during video.(while also having a dedicated AF sensor like normally) The 7D doesn't have this so you probably won't get any update on that. At least, that's what I think.

The 40mm lens does seem very very interesting. I believe STM is for Silent Stepper Motor, whatever that means. I do know that the STM does have full time manual override. Too bad it isn't just a stop wider. f2 would be amazing and if quality was good it would definitely be interesting to replace the 50mm 1.4
We'll see. At least this lens got my attention.