Pancake Lens for baby dragon

[Jean-Charles Wundele]

Hi Redusers,

I will receive my Komodo next week so I plan to put my hands on some pancake lenses for the weekend.

What are the best choices to keep the Komodo the smallest possible?
I’m open to everything from vintage to brand new.

Let’s start a list here if some of you have some recommendation whatever the mount, whatever the release date.

Thanks for your help guys

 

[Curren Sheldon]

Canon 40mm f2.8.

 

[Jean-Charles Wundele]

The canon is definitely the usual suspect. I was thinking even shorter and smaller. M mount or m39 maybe vintage. I would like to keep the adapter / lense as short as possible and try to remove every cm/inch possible.


I made some quick search yesterday. I found some vintage pancake who can be funny to drop on the Komodo for street shooting days.

There is really different flavor in the list below.

I think I will maybe give a try to the voigtlander, apoqualia or summaron.

Do you have ever tried some? Any recommendations?


Leica M


MS Optical Perar f/4.5 | 17mm

MS Optical Super Triplet Perar f/4.5 | 21mm

MS Optical Super Triplet Perar f/4 | 28mm

MS Optical Apoqualia-G f/2 | 28mm

Summaron f/5.6 | 28mm

Summicron-C f/2.0 | 40mm

Voigtlander Color Skopar PII f/2.5 | 35mm



M39


Avenon Kobalux f/3.5 | 28mm

Canon LTM f/2.8 | 28mm

Industar 69 f/2.8 |*28mm

Leitz Hektor f/6.3 | 28mm

Voigtlander Color Skopar LTM f/3.5 | 28mm

 

[Robert Hart]

Nikon made a lens which might be of interest, the 45mm f2.8 as a pancake style. This image was harvested from an eBay posting where there are several listed.

 

[andrewhake]

Canon 24mm and 40mm. I am sure Canon will come out with some nice RF pancake lenses which could make for an even more compact setup.

 

[Jean-Charles Wundele]

I'm also intrigued to see the new RF 40.

 

[Han Vogen]

I’m surprised this list isn’t bigger? Are so few shooting vintage glass? So many tiny cool vintage lenses to choose from. Surely others are interested in this topic?

 

[M Harvey]

Would love to hear results on the above lenses. I'd been thinking about how a 35/40 voigtlander lens might play on the Komodo.

For now, I really like the very compact Nikon 28 f2.8 AIS, and also the Zeiss 25mm f2 zf2 (which is a bit more chunky). But the Nikon mount adapter adds a significant bit of depth, so I might consider newer RF options from Canon as a pancake lens.

 

[Roy Rossovich]

I shot all weekend with the 24 2.8 stm on a gimbal with autofocus. was incredible. super tight set up, amazing to balance and the autofocus was spot on 90% of the time. really impressed. If they can get a face recognition or track implemented this is going to be great for run and gun doc work.