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Subject: [Leica] Canon 30D?
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Thu Jan 19 08:14:20 2006
References: <BFF3CEAA.B063%bdcolen@comcast.net><p06230935bff41bc15187@[131.142.12.152]><5FD7A3AA-6AA7-45D3-935F-0D9FDB9713F2@btinternet.com> <p0623093fbff46b78013c@[131.142.12.152]>

Pentax ME is actually quite rugged - mine is from 1978 and works to 
perfection.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 30D?


> My last big, heavy SLR was a Nikon F3 and it was a miniature compared to 
> the current crop of film and digital SLRs.  I used a Pentax ME for many 
> years, too.  That was just about the right size as far as I was concerned 
> but you give up a lot of ruggedness in those smaller cameras.
>
>
> Frank Dernie wrote:
>
>>I don't like big heavy cameras either, but you can't blame that on 
>>digital. The digital only lenses are smaller than the film SLR lenses and 
>>the cameras are little if any different to equivalent film SLRs. It is SLR 
>>cameras which are - mostly - big and heavy, not digital. I hated the size 
>>and weight SLRs before digital was invented.
>>Frank
>>
>>On 18 Jan, 2006, at 16:36, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Right, but, at least for me, buying a first generation digital M won't 
>>>mean buying into an entirely new system and it will be a system that I 
>>>enjoy using.
>>>
>>>I seem to be unable to express adequately just how much I dislike hauling 
>>>around these over-sized, over-weight, over-automated, computers that pass 
>>>for cameras these days.
>>
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
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