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>>286383 I know! I have a truly *enormous* penis. Simply gargantuan. And I want a tiny camera to reflect that fact.
>>286371 >I've never really got the "pocketability" fetish; you can't fit an M in a small pants pocket, but no one complains about that, and it's easy and simple as hell to just throw a camera over your shoulder and go. Sometimes you can't just throw a camera over your shoulder. Hell, 90% of the time I have my full Domke full of lenses along with my 40D. But even the smallest SLRs (and even the even-smaller bridge cameras) scream "CAMERA!" and a lot of people will act differently around someone with a camera that screams "CAMERA!". For the situations where I'd want to be using a hypothetical tiny µ4/3, an M8 *would* be too big (although it would have the advantage that it doesn't look like a "professional" camera nowadays to anyone who's not a photographer nerd).
The size of a camera, in great part, determines how it can be used. You wouldn't bring an 8x10 view camera for party snaps, just as you wouldn't bring a 110 for studio work. The 35mm SLR form factor (and 35mm rangefinder form factor, pretty much, since those are around the same size) is a nice compromise between quality/controls/ergonomics and size, but there are still situations where you don't want a big noticeable pro-looking camera. E.g., if you're sneaking it into a war zone. Or, something people here are likely to do, sneaking it into an event or concert, or just doing street photography and trying to avoid having a belligerent asshole start shouting at you.
A µ4/3 wouldn't replace my SLR, but one that's small enough would be a great complement to it. The G1, especially with the lenses it currently has available, just isn't small enough to be particularly interesting except as a proof-of-concept for the system.
So, tl;dr: It's not that the G1 is too large if considered on its own, it's just too large for there to be any situation where it would be better than my SLR.
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