Black Friday pricing for Canon lenses from authorized dealers is now live, and we have noticed the big discounts on Canon’s two pancake lenses for the EF and EF-S mount.
You can save up to $400 for Black Friday on lots of other Canon lenses at Adorama, check out the other deals here.
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Yes, but in a brilliant marketing move, they will be called "flapjacks" instead.
Why not just go for the RF 35? No mount adapter needed, faster, semi-macro and IS.
I have the RF 35, it's a great walkaround lens and IQ is great for the price. Currently my only RF lens, saving for the RF 70-200 as my next purchase
The 40 on a 6D is extremely small and unobtrusive. Use #1: when walking around an interesting marketplace, etc, the smaller the glass eye peering at them the less people doing their thing will stop and stare back or otherwise go into 'someone is taking my picture' mode. Use #2, when taking full body or at least torso and up portraits of children, the smaller the glass eye peering at them, the less intimidating they find it and I get more relaxed poses (at least it seems that way). Yes, it has lousy tight head shot perspective though.
I often go to indoor events where the main lens I need on my 1D X is the 70-200/2.8. I put that combo in a Lowepro Toploader 75, and a 600EX-RT fits in the side pocket. On the off-chance I’ll need something wider for a few shots, I can just tuck the 40/2.8 in the top pocket of the case (instead of strapping on a lens case for the 24-70/2.8).
I had the exact same reaction with the 40. Sounded great in my heard, not so great in practice. On the other hand, the 22mm pancake practically lived on my m5, and the 28mm on my Fuji never comes off. Basically, if I was willing to carry the big camera over the small ones, then I didn’t mind a bigger, better lens.
I have the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 pancake lens, and it works so well as a handy lens on my APS-C DSLRs (I have a few DSLRs).
@cayenne, the 40mm pancake is for those of us who believe that size doesn't matter and it's how you use it that counts. It's a modern take on quite an old fashioned optical formula that exhibits quite severe field curvature and other aberrations. However this means that the lens does render well; to my eye it produces pleasing results. Its light weight and small size make my 5DS every light indeed, and on that camera I can crop into APS-c and still retain a 20 mp 64mm equivalent field of view lens, and I can use the camera in portrait orientation and make a three frame stitch giving me a 24mm FOV. So I've got 24-64 in a very light, small package. When I got the 35mm f/2 IS I thought i wouldn't use the 40 anymore, but in fact I do, it's a more characterful lens. Here in the time-honoured internet tradition of supplying irrefutable professional proof of a lenses prowess I'm posting a shot of my cat taken on the 40mm. I wonder if you'd see the difference with a $2000 lens ?
