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Canon needs a compact walk around RF 35mm

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OP Dave King Forum Member • Posts: 69
Re: Canon needs a compact walk around RF 35mm

Sittatunga wrote:

Dave King wrote:

sportyaccordy wrote:

Dave King wrote:

From the reviews I've read, the f/1.8 is not it !

A lot of complaints about focus hunting....it needs a switch to lock out the macro range.

The 40mm f2.8 pancake is my favorite walk around EF lens....how bout one for the RF mount?

Or a standard 35mm compact "street" lens, f/2.8 would be fine.

Either would make the RP body a killer street combo.

Why did Canon leave such an essential "use type" out of it's RF lineup?

Dave

With the shorter registration distance a 35-40mm couldn't be a pancake. Plus the 35 1.8 isn't much bigger if at all than something like the Tamron 35/2.8.

Bottom line if you want smaller lenses shoot a smaller format. EF-M 22/2 sounds more up your alley.

An actual pancake is not a requirement, and perhaps I will end up with a 35 1.8 RF one of these days, enough respondents here have said focus hunting is not a big issue. But I would prefer a non macro for walk around. I had an M but dumped it for a Sony a6000 which I like a lot.

The RF 50mm is 6mm shorter than the EF 40mm pancake on the adapter. You might possibly get a 28mm RF mount pancake which would also be a 45mm FF equivalent for the crop cameras, but anything longer would also have to be telephoto construction to look like a pancake on RF mount.

I have the 50 1.8 and like it a lot, and also the 40 pancake and adapter, it's Ok but I do not gravitate to it. My current walk around choice is the tiny Rokkor M 40 f/2 with M to RF adapter in spite of manual focus.

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