The rise of the point-and-shoot has sparked another trend: the pancake lens. The pancake lens is a tiny optic that can make a mirrorless camera feel more like a point-and-shoot. As a pro photographer, the pancake lens is my favorite hack for creating a point-and-shoot dupe of hard-to-find cameras like the Fujifilm X100VI. But, there are a few key things to know before buying one.
Pancake lenses get their name from the breakfast favorite thanks to the slim design. While a point-and-shoot is a camera with a fixed lens, a pancake lens is a hack to make an interchangeable lens camera more compact – you have to buy a camera body to go with a pancake lens.
