Way back when Maitani came up with some brilliant
ideas to conserve camera weight on an SLR and thus the
OM system was born. Today the thinking seems to be
'its plastic, it'll be lighter so lets just replace
every metal piece with plastic.' The metal OM bodies
just can't compete with an all plastic body in terms
of lightness; same thing about lenses. Now build
quality... thats a whole different story, you could
probably take any OM except the 10 series and bash
almost any current plastic SLR to unusablility, many
to tiny pieces, without harming the OM.
Mark Lloyd
--- "Daniel J. Mitchell"
<DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As an aside, I picked up a Canon Rebel-2000
> autofocus SLR camera the other
>
> > day, and I was FLABBERGASTED at how light it was.
>
> I had the same experience yesterday -- not sure if
> it was a rebel 2000
> exactly, but it was definitely a plasticky new
> wonderbrick. Holy smokes,
> that thing weighs nothing..
>
> It's worth going into a shop and asking to try one
> out just for comparison
> -- the camera+(guessing)28-70 lens felt like it
> weighed less than just the
> body of my OM. The zoom mechanism felt really
> floaty, too -- no focus, just
> twist to zoom, but it required almost no effort to
> turn it, no sense of
> feedback somehow.
>
> As my OM is pretty scarred already, I have exactly
> no worries about dumping
> it into a backpack with a bunch of other stuff to
> rattle around -- I'd be
> wary of putting that plastic thing anywhere that
> wasn't surrounded by a
> whole lot of padding..
>
> (interesting that one of the theoretical benefits
> of the OM system is its
> light weight, but I guess only starts to apply when
> you get further up the
> range/onto bigger lenses)
>
> -- dan
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