Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good point, still, the aluminium foil used in Canon rangefinders was lighter....... :-) Frank On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 07:06 pm, Karen Nakamura wrote: > >> titanium is heavier than Aluminium. ... AFAIK the only sound >> engineering (rather than fashion/styling) use of titanium was in the >> syncromesh rings of Porsche 911 gearboxes where the high natural >> friction was used to good effect. > > > > What about the titanium shutter foil used in Nikon rangefinders, > Hasselblad 2000 series SLRs, and some others? > > Karen > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html