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    Feb 09, 2021 4 minutes

    Pancake lenses for Nikon Z

    As a seasoned amateur Nikonista I greatly enjoy my Z 50 and the kit lens, as a super-portable second body: especially when I travel for work and can’t bring my D850 plus lenses. The kit lens is great but I wish Nikon would produce a 35mm equivalent for the Z 50 APS-C sensor, in the form of a pancake lens of the same size of the 16-50 kit lens, or even smaller, and with a wide aperture, say f/1.8 or f/2. This may never come, hence I’ve been looking for pancake lenses from different brands, not necessarily AF, that could be used on the Z 50

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