Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My last big, heavy SLR was a Nikon F3 and it was a miniature compared to the current crop of film and digital SLRs. I used a Pentax ME for many years, too. That was just about the right size as far as I was concerned but you give up a lot of ruggedness in those smaller cameras. Frank Dernie wrote: >I don't like big heavy cameras either, but you can't blame that on >digital. The digital only lenses are smaller than the film SLR >lenses and the cameras are little if any different to equivalent >film SLRs. It is SLR cameras which are - mostly - big and heavy, not >digital. I hated the size and weight SLRs before digital was >invented. >Frank > >On 18 Jan, 2006, at 16:36, Richard S. Taylor wrote: > >>Right, but, at least for me, buying a first generation digital M >>won't mean buying into an entirely new system and it will be a >>system that I enjoy using. >> >>I seem to be unable to express adequately just how much I dislike >>hauling around these over-sized, over-weight, over-automated, >>computers that pass for cameras these days. > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick