Photozone has their review up. Looks pretty darn good!
http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/752-canon_40_28_ff
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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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First time out with the new little guy, both taken with the 5DII:
/sigh
Looks like I'm going to have to spend more money... again.
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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.
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