• Lens Construction: 4 group 6 pieces
• Closest focusing distance: 0.3m
• The maximum magnification ratio: 0.18-fold
• Filter diameter: 52mm
• The maximum diameter: 68.2mm
• Length: 22.8mm
• Weight: About 130g
• Price: $199

MTF:

Available at:

• http://www.adorama.com/CA4028.html
• http://www.amazon.com/Canon-40mm-2-8-STM-Lens/dp/B00894YP00

Previews and reviews:

• http://www.photoreview.com.au/news/canon-unveils-two-new-lenses
• http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/06/08/Canon-creates-EF-S-18-135mm-F3-5-5-6-IS-STM-EF-40mm-F2-8-STM
• http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20120608_538769.html
• http://fstoppers.com/canon40mmpancake

this was shot with spizz t6
iscomorphot S8 1.5X
50mm Nikon F1.8 pancake lens
has a lot of CA with this setup.

The iscomorphot is this one: http://www.macrolenses.de/ml_detail_sl.php?ObjektiveNr=258

Panasonic GH3: $625 Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 mkI: $250

Selling from Los Angeles. CONUS with shipping fee included

Music: Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy, Kronos Quartet - The Beatitudes, Hank Mobley - Strechin' Out.

Shot with a hacked Panasonic GH2 (Cake 2.3). 7-14mm, 20mm, FD 50mm, 14-140mm. Edited with FCPX.

Vic

I've tried both the Konica 40mm Pancake and the Nikon Series E 50mm Pancake, but I'm curious to see if I can go thinner.

3 Pana Lens are used -- 20mm pancake, 14-42mm X lens, 45-150 lens. Most of the footage were filmed in 720 60P. Used Twixtor for slow-mo effect. Edited in Premiere Pro.

I did three comparisons each with the lenses at f/2.8 and f/5.6. The uncropped shots are resized, but I only wanted to demonstrate the barrel distortion and vignetting with those. There are also 100% crops of each. All shots were done with the wide converter on the 14mm (sorry, forgot label it properly), and with the Tokina at it's widest setting. I used RAW on the GH2 for all shots.

As expected, the Panny combo had worse vignetting and barrel distortion than the Tokina. The GH2 corrects the distortion for the 14mm, but it can't do anything about the wide converter. At F/2.8, the Panny combo was clearly sharper than the Tokina which had some noticeable coma. At F/5.6, the sharpness is about even in the center, but the Tokina slightly beats out the Panny combo at the edges. You can also notice the purple fringing is pretty bad on the Tokina at the edge of that white book.

Time to hire the A team.

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Or maybe the Giraffes ate it.

Be sure to watch full screen 1080p with the sound turned up. Only problem here is skew from me doing a one man deal and whipping the camera all over but it came out fun and it's the clearest version of the ride up on youtube. Ride operators aren't allowing stabilizers on the ride. ;P

The camera died for a few days and then magically came back to life.

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Both seems good glasses, the main use is video and film, photography as secundary, The examples indicate both are greats and cinematographic look. So, i like much use mi GH2 in the night, the luminosity is therefore a necessary condition for my.

Some people say the Panix is best, and argue the SLR is a CCTV overpriced, that argument isnt mine, so, for the tests, I think the SLR is wonderful and the price isnt excessive.

Actually I have a 14-42 its a regular lens, but is poor in low light condition and noisy in high ISO. A FD 50mm 1.8, superb, great look and softness, but have a limited angles.

I need objective opinions, thanks