Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, my wife smokes, so I took one of her packs (standard cigs, not 100s or anything like that), and the dimensions are: 89mm x 55mm x 23mm So yes, the Sony is not too much longer or wider, but considerably fatter. It strikes me as a good cycling camera, something to keep in my handlebar bag. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:25 AM, Richard Man wrote: > Here you go: > > 102 x 59 x 36 mm (4.02 x 2.32 x 1.42") > > 7.51 oz > > Never smoke. Not a whole lot bigger than a credit card. Kinda fattish at > 1.42" but the lens is a zoom... > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >