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Subject: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:25:18 -0700
References: <CAF8hL-HdJmQEH+_VgJzHKLJi2SJQv-ZD3iLEk1S9wARLEm346Q@mail.gmail.com> <CC250037.21063%mark@rabinergroup.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9879D8419@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <92A40712-3744-4CF2-9DE2-956524AC3144@gmail.com>

Here you go:

102 x 59 x 36 mm (4.02 x 2.32 x 1.42")

7.51 oz

Never smoke. Not a whole lot bigger than a credit card. Kinda fattish at
1.42" but the lens is a zoom...

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> In my former world, a shirt pocketable camera is the size of a pack of
> filter cigarettes. A lot of us old farts might relate best to that
> standard. Please display these cameras next to a pack of Winstons.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> Jeffery L. Smith
> New Orleans, Louisiana
> USA
>
> On Jul 12, 2012, at 21:36, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > All things in proportion, it is large for a camera which fits in your
> pocket ;-) They say it is OK to 12"x17" prints.....
> >
> > john
> >
> > ________________________________________
> >
> > I'm sorry but I don't call a 2.7X crop sensor a large sensor. I call it a
> > small sensor. Bigger than my pinky fingernail. But needlessly small. A
> > camera with a sensor that small I'd like the size of a classic Minox.
> >
> > Just because consumers buy camera with sensors the size of your pinky
> > fingernail does not me that a 2.7x is big.
> >
> > The least Rollei could have done with a camera like this is have it be
> 4/3
> > 's 2x crop. The least.
> >
> > - - from my iRabs.
> > Mark Rabiner
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >
> >
> >>
> >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sony_rx100.shtml
> >>
> >> Sounds interesting. Shirt-pocketable is always a good thing.
> >>
> >> --
> >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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