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Best pancake lens for NX1100?

Started Aug 26, 2016 | Discussions thread
TJL LTFF
TJL LTFF Senior Member • Posts: 1,728
Re: Best pancake lens for NX1100?

Caleb PM wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, a "pancake" lens is a fixed focal-length lens that is fairly compact (right?).

There are 3 NX pancakes: 16mm, 20mm and 30mm. I enjoy all three, but use the 30mm the most. The 45mm is really good but it is twice+ the size of the other 3.

Can anyone recommend a sharp lens that is not too expensive?

Don't know what expensive might mean to you, but the 30mm is the sharpest of the 3.

Let me add that I would use this lens for pleasure photography (outdoors).

I use my 30mm a lot for the outdoor shots - it has excellent resolution corner to corner from f/4 and narrower. I leave mine at f/5 or f/5.6 for almost all outdoor shots. And if I need wider, and don't have the 16 or 20mm with me, I will shoot 2 or more overlapping photos and stitch them together in post-processing.

Can I also use a prime lens for macro shots?

Not by itself; there are adapters that can turn it into an ok quasi-macro.

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