Nobody cares about the new Panasonic 20mm pancake. Everybody wants the old one :)

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It was only two weeks ago that Panasonic announced the new 20mm pancake. And nobody really seems to remember the event anymore. And when you look at the current Amazon popularity ranking (Click here to see it) you will see how the “older” 20mm pancake lens still sells far…but really far far far better than the new version (You will have a hard time to find the new 20mm version within the top 100). NOTE: The ranking contains both orders and preorders! If you scroll the ranking you will find the G6, E-P5 and other stuff that isn’t in Stock now.

Back to the new 20mm lens: The only new “feature” of the new version is the chassis. All the rest is the same. And that’s the problem. The older 20mm has become a legend while the new version is not. A faster AF or slightly better optical performance would have been welcome. Hopefully Panasonic will listen to us like they did on the soon to come GX7 :)

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Olympus E-PM1 with lens for $249 on [shoplink 40180 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].