Deal: Everyone Needs a Pancake

[Canon Rumors]

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From B&H Photo

B&H Photo is selling the “white box” Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens for $99 for a limited time.

Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake $99 (reg $149)

cr

[mfng]

Eh? The wrong lens is linked, no?

[Drizzt321]

Either that or the post is making a reference to the wrong lens.

[ewg963]

What??? Why is it posting EF-M 22mm lens?

[dr croubie]

Forget "white box" pancake.

Me wanty "white" pancake.

[yorgasor]

Looks like a false alarm.  Even when I add the lens to the cart and check out, the price still shows at $149.00

[Drizzt321]

Forget "white box" pancake.

Me wanty "white" pancake.

Try blue pancakes. As in blue corn meal pancakes. With real Grade A Dark Amber Vermont Maple syrup. Yummy!!

[Pi]

Remember the good old times when $100 used to buy a decent lens?

[Famateur]

Forget "white box" pancake.

Me wanty "white" pancake.

From the looks of the release of the new white SL1, you might just get your wish: http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/11/canon-eos-sl1x7-in-white-pictures/

[jdramirez]

 LIES!!!  ALL LIES!!!

[ajfotofilmagem]

The link leads to EF-M 22mm, and not EF40mm. Seeing the price drop in the EF-M 22mm, and no launch of EF-M 11-22mm in the USA, I think we'll never see another camera model EOS-M.

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Remember the good old times when $100 used to buy a decent lens?

I seem to recall the Canon 50mm f/1.8 FL metal construction for around $39.95.  The canon historical museum places the original cost at 14,800 yen which at the official exchange rate in 1964 of 360 yen to a US dollar comes out to $41.11 so my memory is not that far off.
And, the 55mm f/1.2 would have been almost exactly $100 with the 58mm f/1.2 coming in for a few dollars less.
 
And the S mount 50mm f/.95 cost a mere $158.  Try to find one for that now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-RF-50mm-f0-95-21917-Minty-Caps-/370877829460?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item565a0a9154

[jdramirez]

Remember the good old times when $100 used to buy a decent lens?

I seem to recall the Canon 50mm f/1.8 FL metal construction for around $39.95.  The canon historical museum places the original cost at 14,800 yen which at the official exchange rate in 1964 of 360 yen to a US dollar comes out to $41.11 so my memory is not that far off.
And, the 55mm f/1.2 would have been almost exactly $100 with the 58mm f/1.2 coming in for a few dollars less.
 
And the S mount 50mm f/.95 cost a mere $158.  Try to find one for that now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-RF-50mm-f0-95-21917-Minty-Caps-/370877829460?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item565a0a9154

With consideration of inflation, what would that be?

[dr croubie]

With consideration of inflation, what would that be?

My mum went to Japan in 1967 and bought a Spotmatic with Takumar 55/2, 35/3.5, and 135/2.5.
When she got her K5, I googled and found some website that converted historic PPP prices, that spotmatic kit converted to about twice what the K5 cost (and it's lasted a good 50 years, too, money well spent)

[Rienzphotoz]

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<p><strong>From B&H Photo<br />

</strong>B&H Photo is selling the “white box” <a href=\"http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1013896-GREY/canon_5985b002_wb_ef_m_22mm_f_2_stm.html/BI/2466/KBID/3296\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake</a> lens for $99 for a limited time.</p>
<p><strong><a href=\"http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1013896-GREY/canon_5985b002_wb_ef_m_22mm_f_2_stm.html/BI/2466/KBID/3296\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Pancake $99</a> </strong>(reg $149)</p>
<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">c</span>r</strong></p>

That's a great deal for the very good optics of the shorty forty.