Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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> >> >> ____________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information