OK, but the quoted weights are always without them big fat batteries.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Old cameras are full of holes for filum and big mirrors and only had
> tiny ickle battewies.
> New cameras are full of gubbins and stuff and fat batteries.
> That's the strictly technical explanation anyway.
> The simple versions are -
> 1. Because they just are!!!
> 2. Gravity (like what I said.)
> Andrew Fildes
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> On 24/10/2007, at 10:57 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> Did anyone come up with the reason as to why the E-3 body weighs
>> the same as
>> my all metal 1972 vintage Nikkormat FTn body?
>>
>> I can't imagine a "Made in China" camera body coming anywhere close
>> to the
>> robustness, and by likely extenstion weight, of a 1970s era Nikon
>> made metal
>> body or for that matter a Leica M3 body.
>>
>> Perhaps some toxic lead paint adds some weight !!
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