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Subject: [Leica] Re: camera weights (was: Zeiss Ikon...)
From: furcafe at yahoo.com (Chris Chen)
Date: Mon Oct 4 19:42:27 2004

Thanks, Jean, nice to have some figures.  However,
since the Contax IIIa & III have the built-in meter, a
better comparison would be to an M2 or M3 w/MC or MR
meter attached.

According to my Zeiss Ikon literature:

Contax II = 20.5 oz. = 581.16 g
Contax III = 25 oz. = 708.74 g
Contax IIa = 18.33 oz. = 519.65 g
Contax IIIa = ?? (not listed)


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From: Jean Louchet <jean.louchet@inria.fr>
Subject: [Leica] camera weights (was: Zeiss Ikon...)
To: lug@leica-users.org


Hi,

some compared weights (* = home measurements, say
+-5grams):

Zorki (must be close to leicaII)  418 g *
M2 (with fast loading kit)        576 g *
M6 non TTL                        550 g *
CLE minolta                       386 g *
BessaT                            385 g
Bessa R2                          425 g
Hexar                             560 g
ContaxRF with built-in meter      750 g*

It comes out that the Contax RF is the winner :-)

The Sonnar 2/50 weighs 151 g, probably thanks to its
simple mechanism, 
but
this is still more than e.g. the Zorki 1.5/50 @ 142g
(plus 12 g for the
M/L39 ring). Anyway Contax + 2/50 weighs more than M6
+ cron 2/50.

More on weights:
 http://fractales.inria.fr/~louchet/perso/masses.html

Jean

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