Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pentax ME is actually quite rugged - mine is from 1978 and works to perfection. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 30D? > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information