Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:17 PM -0500 3/11/00, Austin Franklin wrote: >> stumbling oafs porting >> Hasselblads. > >I am willing to bet a dollar and a donut I have traveled equally as >difficult a place with my Hasselblad as most have traveled with their >Leica...I have not stumbled, nor am I an oaf. In fact, the pictures were >superb, and I would not have trusted them to any other camera.... It >depends on how adept you are at carrying it...and that would hold true with >a Leica. > >I weighed my 2003FC/W, PME3 finder, 110/2 lense and winder, and it was only >about %20 heavier than my M6 with 75/1.4, and NO winder.... So, despite >the smaller volume the Leica occupies, it isn't really that much lighter >than a comparably equipped Hasselblad... > >Oh yeah, and have any Leicas ever been to the moon? Harrumph....... > >------------------ I think you need your scales checked (and no, this is not a personal attack on you intimating that you are reptilian, although obviously the previous poster had you in mind when posting the thing about Hasselblad oafs:-)) On second thought, I don't know what you mean with '%20', so you may be right. A 200 something F with back and 110 weight around 1800gm. Plus winder. Plus PME. An M6 weighs about 1160gm with 75/1.4. Not that I haven't carried Hasselblads or worse to remote places, stumblingly. Sinar 8x10's in papermills and on logging slopes come to mind. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com