I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.

Olympus 25 mm f2.8 pancake lens review: small really is beautiful

I love pancakes. There is no better breakfast. But surely there have to be much better lenses than the flattened and presumably optically compromised pancake lenses that the likes of Pentax and Olympus are serving up? With that in mind, I set out to get a taste of the Olympus 25mm f2.8 pancake lens made for the four-thirds mount, which, given the 2x crop factor due to the four-thirds sensor size, translates into the equivalent of a normal 50 mm lens on a 35 mm full-frame camera.

From a practical point of view, small is nearly always more desirable when it comes to portability but, almost inevitably, in photography small is a signal that image quality has been sacrificed on the altar of convenience.
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