Pancake Lenses

When adapting vintage lenses to modern-day cameras, a shooter is usually looking for something they can’t easily achieve in a modern lens. Sometimes that’s a certain bokeh character or a classic softness to details. Other times, the shooter is trying to get to a certain aperture or focal length while staying within a certain price

While those delicious cakes of batter are great, do you know what’s even better? A pancake lens! So, what is a pancake lens? A pancake lens is typically a small and fixed focal length lens that maintains a small profile on a camera body. A pancake lens usually doesn’t extend more than an inch or