Re: [Leica] bag & Heavy Leica!?

[Peter Jon White <PeterJonWhite@PeterWhiteCycles.com>]

To "reduce" weight, you would have to first have another camera system from 
which to reduce weight. But you don't say what that was. An M body weighs 
what it weighs, and the lenses weigh what they weigh. All the weights are 
readily available on the Leica web site, I believe. And since you were 
reducing weigh presumably from something (?) you should have known by how 
much before you bought.

Be that as it may, you now own a fine camera system, and you find it too 
heavy. It seems to me you have two options; go to the gym, or trade it in 
for some plastic camera system.

My wife opts for plastic for most of her photography, (although she 
occasionally gets serious and hauls out the 1973 Canon F-1).

I take regular treatments at the gym, though I do make one concession: I 
use a Gitzo carbon fiber tripod. ;-)

At 12:45 AM 6/8/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Help.
>
>I purchased M equipment to reduce weight but am finding it heavy.
>I currently carry around whilist travelling
>M6 Body - Colour Slide
>M6 Body - B & W
>90m f2.8
>35Asp f2
>21Asp F 2.8
>50 m f2
>Sf20 Flash
>Leica Polarizer
>Gitzo table tripod
>Film
>misc
>
>Weight 6Kg +


Peter Jon White