Some people read the specs, see the larger numbers, and become concerned. I find many people have a hard time visualising written numbers to real world scale.
Going O.T. This is the first time I've ever come across someone who used the 1/10 inch scale. (admittedly I grew up with & use every day the metric system, but still...) Dave On 9/16/06, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A number of people have been carping about how big the K10D is. I was > doing a bit of thinking about that and decided to compare the published > sizes of the *ist-Ds to the K10D, I wanted to use the D but I couldn't > find the published data, and I was just too lazy to measure it.. I then > compared the difference in size of the LX to the MX and guess what. > It's in the same ball park. The K10D is 6/10 of an inch wider, 4/10 of > an inch taller and 2/10 of an inch thicker than the *ist-Ds. The LX is > roughly 5/10 of an inch wider 3 or 4/10 of an inch taller, (with FA-1 > finder), and about 1/10 of an inch thicker.the D is a couple 1/10's of > an inch wider than the Ds and a couple 1/10's of an inch shorter than > the Ds. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

