Tomato 1D MK3 40MM pancake

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One of the heaviest bodies with one of the lightest prime lenses.
Not bad for a camera nobody even mentions these days
JPEG with very mild lightroom done.

 

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very sharp...
what is special about a pancake lens..other than size..?
when pentax first brought out their smallest 35mm bodies..the smallest 35mm camera in the world..so beating olympus's om1

...in order to get the title for body and lens they designed a 50mm slim lens...the quality of course was suspect and gained the title for them nevertheless...it had a useless little narrow focussing ring

that camera was the Mx and the Me variant and came with the
the pentax s**t lens...a body stopper which was discarded for a 'real' lens
so is your pancake one of these?
guess i like your shot though for effort
cheers
geof

 

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very sharp...
what is special about a pancake lens..other than size..?
when pentax first brought out their smallest 35mm bodies..the smallest 35mm camera in the world..so beating olympus's om1

...in order to get the title for body and lens they designed a 50mm slim lens...the quality of course was suspect and gained the title for them nevertheless...it had a useless little narrow focussing ring

that camera was the Mx and the Me variant and came with the
the pentax s**t lens...a body stopper which was discarded for a 'real' lens by most users and the little lens was a fun thing...
so is your pancake one of these?
guess i like your shot though for effort
cheers
geof

 

[GTG]

very sharp...
what is special about a pancake lens..other than size..?
when pentax first brought out their smallest 35mm bodies..the smallest 35mm camera in the world..so beating olympus's om1

...in order to get the title for body and lens they designed a 50mm slim lens...the quality of course was suspect and gained the title for them nevertheless...it had a useless little narrow focussing ring

that camera was the Mx and the Me variant and came with the
the pentax s**t lens...a body stopper which was discarded for a 'real' lens
so is your pancake one of these?
guess i like your shot though for effort
cheers
geof

Focus ring is 5.5mm approx. VS 17mm of my 17-40L so yes the focus ring is not so great.

However it looks like a joke lens from a toy shop and that's a good thing.

Why you ask, because I find that if I go around with large pro looking lenses

everyone in a half mile radius knows there is a photographer walking around

and in my experience they feel uneasy and quite paranoid that they may get their picture taken

or whatever.

With a pancake lens you blend in and you look like a regular joe with a camera rather

than a photographer with reach and zoom etc.

But yes otherwise a big expensing lens wins hahahahaha....

 

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Focus ring is 5.5mm approx. VS 17mm of my 17-40L so yes the focus ring is not so great.

However it looks like a joke lens from a toy shop and that's a good thing.

Why you ask, because I find that if I go around with large pro looking lenses

everyone in a half mile radius knows there is a photographer walking around

and in my experience they feel uneasy and quite paranoid that they may get their picture taken

or whatever.

With a pancake lens you blend in and you look like a regular joe with a camera rather

than a photographer with reach and zoom etc.

But yes otherwise a big expensing lens wins hahahahaha....

Best answer and makes sense
I do find folks taking snaps with giant lenses quite intimidating...
Thanks for your post
Cheers
GEOF