I will always appreciate your suggestion of the Olympus 14-42 pancake, along with the auto-open lens cap, for Micro-4/3. Not a fast lens but crisp and super compact.
Yeah, there's a whole other article about compact zooms that I like, with the Olympus 14-42mm EZ at the top of the list. It's actually the lens that I keep on my OM-1 for fast grab shots. The auto-open lens cap is the cherry on top.
As much as I like (I never loved LOL) the Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 pancake, I absolutely *adore* the Voigtländer Ultron 27mm f/2.0 manual focus lens. It's a tiny bit smaller but one stop faster. It's manual focus, but a dream to use; it actually stops at infinity (unlike so many lenses that let you focus past infinity - something that never made sense to me) so for street work it's a breeze to just set it at f/8, infinity focus and go. Plus it doesn't have that slow, noisy AF motor that Fuji saddled the XF27 with.
That little Ultron is practically glued to my X-Pro3. It's wonderful.
I will always appreciate your suggestion of the Olympus 14-42 pancake, along with the auto-open lens cap, for Micro-4/3. Not a fast lens but crisp and super compact.
Yeah, there's a whole other article about compact zooms that I like, with the Olympus 14-42mm EZ at the top of the list. It's actually the lens that I keep on my OM-1 for fast grab shots. The auto-open lens cap is the cherry on top.
As much as I like (I never loved LOL) the Fujinon XF27mmF2.8 pancake, I absolutely *adore* the Voigtländer Ultron 27mm f/2.0 manual focus lens. It's a tiny bit smaller but one stop faster. It's manual focus, but a dream to use; it actually stops at infinity (unlike so many lenses that let you focus past infinity - something that never made sense to me) so for street work it's a breeze to just set it at f/8, infinity focus and go. Plus it doesn't have that slow, noisy AF motor that Fuji saddled the XF27 with.
That little Ultron is practically glued to my X-Pro3. It's wonderful.
I have an Ultron 40mm f/2, and I love it as well. It's not a pancake, but it is a gem.