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Subject: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9?
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:16:24 -0500
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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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