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Digital Camera World
James Artaius

Pancake lenses are officially back in fashion (and it's all thanks to trendy compact cameras)

7Artisans 18mm f/6.3 II mounted to an Olympus PEN E-PM1.

After falling out of fashion for a while, all of a sudden we've been hit with a wave of pancake lenses.

In the last few months we've seen the Kase AF 24mm f/3.8, the Viltrox AF 26mm f/2.8 Evo, the Viltrox AF 28mm f/4.5 arriving in new mounts, along with the “most requested lens of all time”, the Lensbaby Twist 28.

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