[Leica] M6 Titanium or Titanized?

[Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com>]

Hi -

I'm reading with great pleasure about the debates regarding the Canon 
10D (which I find a bit large for my hards) and the Leica M - which I 
find just a bit heavy.

I've been idly thinking these days about the M6 Titanium and went to 
Leica's web page to read about it. There, I was much surprised to 
find that the M6 top and bottom plates were "Titanized" and weren't 
made out of titanium at all.  Leica says it was some way of spray 
coating titanium as a plating surface onto  the zinc magnesium body.

So is it true that the M6 Titanium isn't:
  * Lighter
or
  * Stronger

than the standard M6? What a disappointment!  I imagine a lot of 
folks would have paid a premium for a lighter/stronger titanium body.


Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
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