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Has anyone got the 50mm 1.8 pancake Nikkor?
I am thinking of getting one because I have a D70s that is looking to be used a lot less (subject to GF approval) adn I want a super light lens.

I missed an AWESOME opportunity the other week walking though Hyde Park where there was this gorgous young asian woman all dressed up and with expensive accessories dead asleep on a park bench in the sun. It was absolutely perfect. Andyway, I kicked myself that I didn't have an accessible camera.

Big Red's recent purchace and portrait was the major motivator for this.

Viz wrote:Has anyone got the 50mm 1.8 pancake Nikkor?

I don't believe this exists.

The Nikkor pancake is a 45mm 2.8, and has been out of production for a couple of years now.

Viz wrote:...gorgous young asian woman all dressed up and with expensive accessories dead asleep on a park bench in the sun. It was absolutely perfect....

I didn't believe this existed.

How about a non-pancake lens, the 50mm f/1.8 , it's already small and light

Zeiss/Voigtlander make a 45mm 2.8 pancake lens.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffmac/2 ... 620834874/

I am currently bidding on this item. I failed to mention that it is old. It is a Nikon, not a Nikkor, sorry. As for a regular 50, it is OK, but I want something smaller and cheap.

Viz, as mentioned it's not a pancake lens, just a standard 50mm. Here is a link to the one you're looking at (scroll down to "Nikon Series E 50mm f/1.8s standard lens")

Bjørn Rørslett's review

This economical version, for the EM and FG cameras, was virtually identical to the Nikkor 50/1.8 in optical design, but built even more compact than the Nikkor. It came in a cheaper-looking (and -feeling) barrel and lacked multi-coating and an aperture coupling prong. Sharpness is very good, but contrast and colour saturation result in images that do not quite match the clarity of the Nikkor.

Haha that is funny.
I didn't realise but my dad has a copy of this same lens for his EM. He bought it, perhaps as a kit, when it came out.

I have made much wiser choices in my life, but if I get this cheap, then so be it.

That's not a pancake lens, pancakes are much thinner than that one.

Its the E version of the 50/1.8 and I believe its much cheaper and not so good in quality compared to the actual 50/1.8.