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EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake

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Kinger
Kinger Contributing Member • Posts: 549
EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake
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Coming from the dead Samsung NX system I really miss having a 16mm pancake. It was my favorite lens. The EF-M 22mm is just a bit too narrow for me, so I end up mostly using the kit zoom but it is bigger and slower, of course than a pancake prime. In the end It doesn’t matter as I’m in on a dead system again! But no plans to move this time. I just picked up 2 M200 kits on the $299 fire sale. I’ll be selling my M5 as I find the focus speed and accuracy to be frustrating.

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Canon EOS M5 Canon EOS M200 Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Canon EF-S 10-18mm F4.5–5.6 IS STM +3 more
nnowak Veteran Member • Posts: 9,076
Re: EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake
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Kinger wrote:

Coming from the dead Samsung NX system I really miss having a 16mm pancake. It was my favorite lens. The EF-M 22mm is just a bit too narrow for me, so I end up mostly using the kit zoom but it is bigger and slower, of course than a pancake prime. In the end It doesn’t matter as I’m in on a dead system again! But no plans to move this time. I just picked up 2 M200 kits on the $299 fire sale. I’ll be selling my M5 as I find the focus speed and accuracy to be frustrating.

Compared to Samsung NX, Canon is missing a lot more than just a 16mm pancake:

  • 10mm f/3.5 fisheye
  • 16mm f/2.4 pancake
  • 30mm f/2.0 pancake
  • 45mm f/1.8
  • 60mm f/2.5 macro
  • 85mm f/1.4
  • 16-50mm f/2.0-2.8
  • 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3
  • 50-150mm f/2.8

I still wish Samsung had continued with the NX system.  Samsung killed it right when it was starting to look really, really good.  It felt like Samsung could have had a winner on their hands if they had only held out for one more year.

Kinger
OP Kinger Contributing Member • Posts: 549
Re: EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake
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Yup, the NX1 was an excellent highly capable unit barring a few small issues. The NX1 ii would have been amazing with addressing those. Ahh, what could have been!

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Canon EOS M5 Canon EOS M200 Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM Canon EF-S 10-18mm F4.5–5.6 IS STM +3 more
MyM6II Senior Member • Posts: 2,424
Re: EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake
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Luckily the EF-M system has all that I need. 😃

But I wouldn’t have voted against a 15mm pancake.

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istscott
istscott Regular Member • Posts: 467
Re: EF-M system Missing a 16mm Pancake
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More autofocus pancake lenses would have been great. Maybe someday we'll see something like that on RF, but even that I wouldn't bet on. It's too bad Samsung jumped ship because they had quite a bit of advanced tech early on. By now they would have had an impressive system.

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