Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My recollection from years ago, when Nikon was running off small quantities of bodies in titanium (F2, F3 and Fm2/T; maybe others), was that there were significant additional manufacturing costs for the titanium body parts, which would be exacerbated (I can use words like that on this list, I think) by the relatively small volume involved. John Newell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Dernie " <Frank. Dernie @ btinternet .com> To: " Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:50:17 AM Subject: Re: [ Leica ] unboxing Golf driver heads are trivial to manufacture, and made in substantial quantity, even if the R&D is higher (which I actually doubt, Golf kit has one of the most susceptible bunch of buyers for a bit of pseudo-science ;-) In addition it is a competitive market with loads of people being able to make them. So they will be cheaper. OTOH Leica is clearly making a big profit on these, and doing some image boosting with certain types of client. Nobody else has been daft enough to machine Ti cameras from solid so the price may well even reflect the cost... The Olympus and Nikon Ti parts being relatively inexpensive covers made from Ti sheet. cheers, Frank On 16 Feb, 2011, at 04:48, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > I buy golf clubs with their heads made out of titanium at a fraction > of the price, where in all probability, far higher R&D costs have to > be recovered > Cheers > Jayanand _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http ://leica-users.org/mailman/ listinfo /lug for more information