SV: [Leica] Mis-information and innuendo

["Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>]

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Apart from that I don't think a child could do justice to the camera
and lens, as they cannot hold a heavy all metal camera steady.  
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> 
Anyone who has spent any time at all hand holding cameras (or guns,)
knows
that the heavy equipment is much easier to hold *steady*. In gun lingo,
it's a heavy barrel. Made HEAVY **especially** so it can be held
STEADY.
This is a very very well known and researched fact. And "a child
couldn't
do justice to the camera and lens"... what the hell does that mean?
> 
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That is crap and you know it.  A heavy barrel can absorb recoil by
inertia, it is not to make aiming easier.  In fact, muscle tension can
cause a nervous jitter if the aim is held for more than a few seconds
with a heavy rifle. The same will happen if a child composes in the
viewfinder of a heavy camera.  If there is any other LUGer reading
this, then try it for yourself, put a weight on the end of a broom
handle (if you don't own a gun).  Aim it and time it until jitter sets
in.  

Alan Hull