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          Pancake Lenses Teardown

          2012-03-24
          by photoxels

          Pancake lenses are compact, flat and a favorite of photographers. LensRental.com has also opened two of them up to reveal just what they are made of. The amount of glass is astoundingly minimal which tells me that you could use one of these lenses on a fixed-focus camera for great image quality.

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