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[OM] Re: E-3 specs - specifically weight.

Subject: [OM] Re: E-3 specs - specifically weight.
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:18:18 -0600
John Hudson wrote:
> My 1972 Nikkormat FTn body weighs 800gr without the Nikkor-S 50/1.4 lens up 
> front.
> 
> Like the M3 body, the FTn body was built to outlive me. Both are metal 
> bodies without much plastic framework in evidence.
> 
> If the E3 weights in at 810gr is this to suggest that it is as robustly 
> built as the M3 or FTn? Somehow I doubt it. So what accounts for the weight?

Well, there is that big beautiful pentaprism in the E-3; I'm willing to 
bet that a solid chunk of glass like that would add 100-150g (4 to 6 
oz.) to the weight all by itself...


Garth

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