what is the smallest mechanical SLR that you know of?

Pentode said:

..... short of dropping them in a bowl of water and measuring displacement /QUOTE]

You would get the specific weight in adition (as average value) !
Water is from 20degreeC = 0,9982067 g x cm *3 But (guess you are off today) - you also may dissamble some cameras and continue with dropping parts of same Material in a bowl of water! What ever : The Jackpot is to tih & Trendland to 60/40 ....we agreed to it because
tih mentioned it first (but don't realy belive ....and I did not notice)!
And to specify 35mm a time later ?.... the lawer of tih said : "..is invalith due to the renewal ban of 1864" (the State Virginia against smith/wesson)!

with regards

PS : most expensive camera ? Phase One (~48.000,-) ? No see :


= 2.160.000,- (2014 Austria)

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68degrees said:

I guess I was wondering if there were any really small 35mm slrs. Like the size of the Olympus XA. Also, I never understood why lenses have to be so big for SLRs? I mean look how small the lens is on an XA little rangefinder. an slr lens is huge and its the same film 35mm. Why is that?

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KN4SMF said:

The OP has ... said nothing about % of viewfinder representation.

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KN4SMF said:

Let's re-ask the question another way. What 35mm SLR is the smallest that gives a 100% viewfinder representation of the actual film area?

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AgX said:

Well, you did

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KN4SMF said:

Because of the necessity of designing a lens where the back element clears the mirror for one thing. Also the amount of glass needed in designing lenses with wider maximum apertures.

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