Quote:Samsung was the system for them 'cakes (no less than three... must be a record for any contemporary system) but it has unfortunately kicked the bucket. And I was even thinking of getting one of the Koreans... Say... was that the only time since the turn of the millenium that we had to see off a whole modern system?
If there is one system associated with pancakes lenses, it has to be Pentax. To this day still, they have the largest collection of small lenses. Although some are not real pancakes, some of their fast FF lenses are very small still (31 f1.8, 43 f1.9, 77 f1.8). For APS-C they have: 21 f3.2, 40 f2.8, 70 f2.4 and 15 f4 (although this last one is quite a bit larger). Generally, their lenses are much smaller than the competition, whether primes or zooms.
I wish they would have quit the DSLR world early to embrace mirrorless and design several pancake lenses... Oh well, Fuji filled the spot quite nicely :wub: