Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] weights
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:49:36 -0700

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> 
> > For this test to be meaningful, the cameras should be weighed with
> > equivalent "standard" lenses, which means weigh the M with a Summicron
> > 50, not a 135...
> 
> What's important is the weight of the kit as you use it, not necessarily
> that everyone uses the same things. As long as the information about what
> bits you've weighed are supplied, we know what the comparison is. If
> enough people supply weights with enough different configurations, we get
> a very good overall picture for comparison.
> 
> I didn't weigh the FE2 with MD-12 or the F3/T with MD-12 because my
> kitchen scale won't go that high... and I don't so much carry them as hire
> a mule to pack them. ;)
> 
> Godfrey

Thanks! My Kitchen scale is a Soehnle, made in west germany. looks like it was
made by Krups(arms of) or Braun(Eva) coffee pots. Its white and it goes to 2kg.
Mark Rabiner