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Subject: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:37:22 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Exactly my thoughts as well. I can put it in the jersey pocket...




> 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>
> >>>>
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> >>>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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