[Leica] Fwd: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Experiment

[Howard Ritter]

Actually, Philippe, 680 ounces is 42.5 pounds or about 19 kg. You were converting 680 pounds to kg. 

A 200 mm f/4 lens weighing that much should be stable indeed. As in, immovable!

—howard

> On Mar7, 2019, at 1715, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Philippe, for pointing out the "old gray matter" does get tired and falter.  I weighed the lens, @ 24 ounces, went online to convert it to grams, 680 gr, and then blew it when I typed it in the bottom line.
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> But I did like the photo possibilities.
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> 
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> Subject: 	Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Experiment
> Date: 	Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:02:34 +0100
> From: 	Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: 	Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
> To: 	Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
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>> Le 7 mars 2019 à 22:54, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> a écrit :
>> 
>> 680 ounces 
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> 
> WOW !!! that’s 308 kg or a third of a ton or so, Jim - I understand you took that monopod along ;-)
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> 
> Keep carrying and pushing iron, this shot was worth it :-)
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
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