Let me guess... the Minolta 7s. :-)
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Chuck Norcutt
On 8/12/2011 11:02 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> You'll not be happy with the 12mm and the upcoming 45mm then - both look
> metal but don't feel it.
>> 'Metallic finish' I believe are the weasel words employed.
>
>
> Well, that isn't always bad. The Canon AE-1 was built that way. The
> finish/body was remarkably rugged. Nobody new it was plastic until somebody
> eventually brassed theirs all the way through the fake finish.
>
> But all this does bring up a point. The classic OM Zuikos (and bodies)
> really are in a league of their own. It's almost unfair to compare them to
> today's tinned-over plastic wonder-bricks. If you want a real camera with
> real metal, you can always buy the E-5, but that's not necessarily an
> option.
>
> At the moment, we're really in a strange limbo. Olympus has killed off
> Four-Thirds, but just hasn't set the tombstone on the gravesite yet. The
> Micro Four-Thirds line is no where near complete as it is aimed squarely at
> the consumer-electronics crowd. Canon is almost directionless with their
> cameras and what direction they are going is unknown right now. Nikon is
> also not sure what to do with a micro-body line. Fuji hits the ball over the
> fence with the X100, but that's not really a solution either. Panasonic's
> Micro Four-Thirds cameras are only marginally more serious than Olympus',
> but only marginally as their engineers must have really tiny hands.
>
> It's tough right now because the only non-DSLR "concrete block" that I can
> recommend is...
>
> AG-Schnozz
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