Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Finders
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:29:09 -0500

At 11:37 AM 11/17/1999 EST, InfinityDT@aol.com wrote:
>
>Interesting.  Just how much lighter can a body be made by making the
mirror a 
>couple millimeters smaller?  Are we talking fractions of grams here?

It isn't to make the overall camera package lighter.  It is to reduce the
moment of force which causes that annoying "mirror slap" vibration.  There,
fractions of a gram can matter.

Marc

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