Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/19

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Subject: [Leica] Canon 30D?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Jan 19 11:14:03 2006

Your "so what?" pegs it perfectly, Henning - it's what works for the
individual. Period.




On 1/19/06 12:49 PM, "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote:

>> actually, the size is rather different given these dimensions.
>> the circumscribing rectangular solids have volumes of:
>> 
>> leica 13.8*7.95*3.8  =  416.898 cc
>> canon 14.4*10.5*7.15 = 1081.080 cc
>> 
>> or a difference of slightly over 2 1/2 times.
>> 
>> -rei
> 
> After many years in the darkroom I do a lot of stuff in units of cc.
> 
> In most other ways, it's not an issue. A 20D does things a Leica
> doesn't, and vice versa. A Sinar 8x10 does things a Minox doesn't,
> etc.
> 
> Use what you can accept and gets you what you like or need.
> 
> I like my digitals, I like my film cameras. It's not an either/or
> situation except on a given day and dependant on my load carrying
> capacity/willingness.
> 
> I haven't gotten a Canon 1D type camera, because I would be reluctant
> to haul it around. If I don't haul it around, it's useless as a
> camera. On the other hand, I often go out with 3 cameras and 10
> lenses. In my universe, that's reasonable and a 1D body isn't. So
> what.



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