Originally posted by Alfisti I'll tell you why it's a concern, i walked around all day for three weeks with the 100D and rarely felt it's heft. I now use a 20D and after an hour my shoulder hurts ..... weight is a severe pain in the arse on any mount but when you're selling pancake primes as a central figure in your line up a camera nudging a kilo is absurd.
The point of pancake lenses made of metal is to be *small,* not light.
Since the Sony's heavier than the K-7, it sounds like what you want doesn't exist. You really want some heft in a serious body, if you're going to carry one around at all. The Pentaxes are the smallest and lightest with their feature-set and quality as it is.
High-quality build is only going to get so light. You need the heft, anyway: even with my arthritic creakiness, I don't mind the weight of a gripped K-20d, especially since my Pentax glass weighs hardly anything. In film days, I'd carry *two* film bodies that weighed as much and not think a thing of it. (Splitting systems as I do, it's the old Canon stuff that starts adding up, weightwise. Though it's the bulk that's more an issue. I just think people get spoiled, especially by entry-level bodies.
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