New Pancake Lenses

[compupix]

For which focal lengths might Canon pancake lenses be possible in the future. I haven't seen any rumors of any.
I think the 40mm pancake would make a great lens to use for stereoscopic landscape photography. I'm lusting for it and I don't even have a second body... yet. (Yes, I know you can shoot two shots with the same camera by just moving a little bit to the side. But if water or something else moves, then two bodies is the way to go.)
So, what focal lengths can be pancaked?

 

[Aaron78]

Mmmmmm, pancakes....

 

[brad-man]

Mmmmmm, pancakes....

 

[crasher8]

Pancakes are usually 20-40mm but I have seen them as low as a 12.5 and as high as a 70.

 

[compupix]

Thanks Crasher8.
I just eBay-ed "pancake lens" and found the following:
28mm Industar-69 f2.8
40mm Olympus Zuiko OM f/2
45mm Nikkor f/2.8
50mm Nikkor f./1.8 AiS
50mm Industar f3.5
Skink Pinhole Pancake Kits

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Unless we get a 28mm pancake, 40mm is about it. I really don't expect a new one soon.

 

[DzPhotography]

Unless we get a 28mm pancake, 40mm is about it. I really don't expect a new one soon.

me neither. I think it's more a gimmick anyhow

 

[PCPhil]

It's not a gimmick for me. Picture quality is superb and my 5D2 is very compact and light. Also when shooting in the street it is much less intrusive.

 

[Albi86]

Unless we get a 28mm pancake, 40mm is about it. I really don't expect a new one soon.

Check the new Voigtländer

Not quite a pancake, but really almost there.

 

[spinworkxroy]

Yes, Canon should make more pancakes.
Consider how good they managed to make the 40mm at that price and the IQ is just superb…
They really should make more..at least aother 1 or 2…at 17mm and 24mm maybe?

 

[M249]

EF-S 27mm f/2.8 would be nice.

 

[crasher8]

I'm curious to wonder just how fast Canon might be able to make a pancake. Is 1.8 out of the question for say, a 24?

 

[Dylan777]

Yes, Canon should make more pancakes.
Consider how good they managed to make the 40mm at that price and the IQ is just superb…
They really should make more..at least aother 1 or 2…at 17mm and 24mm maybe?

+1...I'll take one at 16 or 17mm f1.4 to 2.0, perfect for travel. I'm currently in Hong Kong for business trip, I have 5d III + 24-70mm II paired up - so far, they like beauty and the beast

I do miss my 16-35 II

 

[dr croubie]

Don't forget that Pentax have a 21mm pancake. It's made for the K-mount, so 45mm flange distance, but it only covers APS-C, so maybe that's how they got a wide-angle pancake to look so good (it's not as nice as the EF 40, but it's as good a wide-angle as you could expect in a pancake).

Seeing as we've already got 40mm, then 50mm and 35mm are probably out. 80mm makes a nice 'pancake' for 6x6 (well, my Biometar (Planar) is the size of a nifty fifty, but for MF that's pretty small). I doubt we'll see one for EF.
So 28mm is the next logical point, but it'll have to be f/3.5 (probably) to get it small, and besides, we've just got a new 28mm f/2.8 IS, if they make an f/2.8 nonIS pancake it'll kill a few sales of the IS. Ditto that for 24mm.
Unless of course it's an EF-S at 28-35mm, then FF users will still have to go for the IS?

And whether Canon can make a 21mm and still keep it 'pancake' and cover FF at the same time? Probably, but I don't think they'd try.


So my guesses: 90% probability the Shorty Forty is all we get. 7% for an EF-S 28mm. 1% chance each for a 21 or 24mm, and the last 1% is Canon surprise me.