Image of the 20mm pancake
Sony announced the new stuff for the CP+ show and it’s rather unspectacular. First we have the new 20mm f/2.8 pancake. Than we have the 18-200mm Powerzoom lens that will be sold as lens only too (it was available as kit lens for NEX camcorder only). Both are already available for preorder at BHphoto (Click here for 20mm pancake) and for the powerzoom (Click here).
And Olympus will also announce something unspectacular this week. An updated version of the current 75-300mm lens 🙂
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i wonder where this silly trend of getting out both 30mm and 60mm FOV lenses. These are two focal lengths which were never offered until two or three years ago because they are both too long and too short. Silly marketing
Harold
If you`re not after a pancake the 19/2.8 from Sigma is way cheaper.
Yay, another pancake… But kinda pricey for a f/2.8 especially when compared to the Panasonic 20/1.7. Come on Sony, you can do better.
The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 is not an equivalent lens, it is equivalent to a 26mm f/2.2 or so on NEX (*2/1.52), making it just as over priced.
Eric
Well I cant wait till Steve Huff does a so called ” real world ” test with these lenses. Bullshit tests that involve difeerent focal lengths and different apertures and even different framing on the crops. the dude has even compared the omd tot he nikon d800 and “according to his bullshit tests, the omd comes out looking caomprable….comparably BULLSHIT if you ask me.
The Samsung 20/2.8 proved to be a bit of a flop as it was such a marginal improvement over the 20-50mm kit lens shooting 20@f3.5. Can’t see this being much different.
yes but dont forget the samsung 20-50 kit lns is a pretty good lens, it even won ametuer photograpers mirrorless kit lens of the year award. So being slightly better than that and faster for a kit lens is not a bad thing. the 20-50 is pretty underrated lens and its a damn good one for a kit.