> Technically, it seems very promising for future higher-end cameras. But > they sure seemed to put a lot of effort and bragging into making it small, > which is something I can't really understand. As long as you have a > typical zoom lens hanging on the front, it hardly matters how big the body > is.
For years I've been ranting and railing about humongous 35mm cameras like the F5. The *ist is just the karma coming around to bite me on the butt. I hate the tendency of everybody and his uncle to want to make things the "-est." Biggest, fastest, smallest, lightest, whatever. I'm a classicist. We seek balance above all things. We seek the middle, the optimum, the exquisitely in proportion.... The perfect camera body is 20 ounces and...well, gosh, just the size of the LX. <g> --Mike P.S. Actually the MZ-S is pretty close to an ideal size, too. Deep enough for a comfortable hand-grip. Not too big, not too small; not too heavy, not too light. Anybody know offhand what the MZ-S weighs?
