Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the Nikon (and Olympus) there would be an incremental increase in cost since titanium is more difficult to press than brass, which is what the Ti covers replaced, but the whole of the rest of the camera was unchanged so the incremental cost would not be all that much. In this M9 the parts replaced are more numerous and machined, not pressed, the cutting tool and cutting speeds for titanium are different than the brass and magnesium alloys from which the normal bodies are made. This means a new manufacturing programme. I don't know whether the main body halves are Ti instead of Mg, or if the revealed metal part is a trim on a standard Mg body, bit if all the machined parts of the camera are Ti then the extra cost is massive. Whether it is worth the extra is another thing... Frank D On 16 Feb, 2011, at 14:55, J. Newell wrote: > 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