Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What will 3 megapixels do for me?
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:39:02 -0700

On 2003-07-17 pklein@2alpha.net (Peter Klein) thoughtfully wrote: 

>It looks like a pro DSLR is the ticket for the quality I'd like, and for
>much less noisy work at low-light levels.  Hmm, used D30 bodies are
>getting relatively cheap, and Phong's pictures show that a D30 is quite
>usable despite megapixel envy.  But as Jim Laurel and others have
>lamented, going to a DSLR means losing the small, light, unobtrusive
>camera.

Compared to the big-time pro cameras the D30 is tiny - it's the darn lenses that
are so huge. The D30 body is actually quite small.

adam
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