Originally posted by tax Mind if I ask you, why do you need two Pentax K-1 cameras?
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Back then silver vs black camera finish was related to the technology of cameras top and bottom plates. Aluminum or magnesium cast plates got silver colored chrome plating. Brass stamped plates more often got painted in a flat black. Aluminum or magnesium so called invest-casting costed less than brass stamping. But aluminum or magnesium casting was more brittle than brass stamping. Which might explain why pros were choosing cameras with stamped prism housings and bottom plates as more tolerable to sudden falls and blows occurring during the field work. Worn out chrome plating on aluminum / magnesium cast camera parts looked ugly and required either replacement of a part or the entire camera. Black paint on brass stamped camera parts was rubbing off in a more graceful way giving that seasonal pro look to the camera. I've never heard that someone called a poser a guy who could afford to buy a pro grade 35mm black SLR camera.
DUDE. I was there. Rich people buy expensive toys.
In the late 60s and early 70s my schoolmates’ fathers bought cool black cameras like Canon F1 and black Nikon F’s to take their vacation snaps. And pros often used cameras like the one I have
Die-cast, chromium anodized aluminum alloy, whether silver or black colored, is more durable - and expensive - than stamped brass
LX plates are aluminum alloy anodized zinc-chromium black, AND then top-coated with glossy black paint so the scratches don’t show.
So I guess I’m a poseur now because I have a silver pro grade film camera
and a black one.
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