Re: [Leica] M6 Titanium or Titanized?

[Seth Rosner <sethrosner@direcway.com>]

Yes Karen, the Titanium M6 is stronger than the other M6's. The brass
top-plate is the same that was used on M3, M2, M4. It is a bit less hard
than the white metal of the M6's and will bend under extreme pressure but it
has a ductile strength that makes it much less susceptible to fracture.
Exactly why Leica went back to the brass top-plate for the MP. It's simply
better. And with titanium plating, as Tom A. points out, it is the
strongest, hardest finish on any Leica.

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From: "Karen Nakamura" <mail@gpsy.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: [Leica] M6 Titanium or Titanized?


> 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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