Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/17
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At 4:19 PM -0400 4/17/01, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Yesssssssssss! Plastic. I think.
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>Dan Honemann wrote:
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>>>>explain why THAT, of all parts, isn't something like titanium, or at
>>>>least stainless steel......ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG :-(((((((
>>>
>>>What is it made of? Please don't say plastic.
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>>Black tape.
When Nikon went to AI metering from the old prong connection, the
'pro' cameras had a flip up tab (steel) on the aperture follower on
the camera, and the lesser cameras had the plastic follower. The
stated reason for both the flip-up and the deformable plastic
followers were that the non-AI lenses had a larger aperture ring
which could damage the follower and connected electronics if they
were mounted and forced onto the camera. Gradually more and more
cameras received the plastic follower. Now only the F5 has the steel
flip-up follower as far as I know. On the various bodies with the
plastic follower that I've had, I've never had the misfortuned to
damage the tab, even though I've used many non-AI lenses on them.
That's the so-called reason. It never seemed good enough to me, but
then I never suffered problems because of the cost-saving plastic
thing.
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