Richard S. wrote:
>Gary Schloss wrote:
>
>> I peeked at the Aria specs... considerably lighter body
>> -- 460g in Aria vs 700g in 167MT, and the 167MT already
>> had a plastic top plate!
>
>Today I looked in the used camera window of a local shop. There was a
>Canon A1 body with sligthly brassing. Hmm, brassing isn't the rigth
>word, underneath the black paint and a thin cooper layer was pure white
>shining plastic!
Hmm, this isn't really news: all A- and T-series Canons have plastic
top plates (and some have plastic bottoms?), as do post-FR Yashicas,
many Contaxes (137MA/MD, 159MM, 167MM, etc), Nikons (EM, FG, FG-20,
N2000, etc), Pentaxes (Program Plus, Super Program), Konicas (TC, T-4,
FC-1, FS-1, FT-1), Ricohs (most later models), and X-series Minoltas.
If the above was a shocker to you, wait till you get a chance to
inspect closely some of their lenses, esp. Canon FD and Minolta MD.
Plastic galore!
>How solid are the OM´s made! I think, even the cheapest OM-10 has a
>metal top cover.
This might be an unpleasant surprise to you, so you better not scratch
the OM-10/20(G)/30(F)/40(PC) tops/bottoms with a screwdriver. :-(
Cheers,
/Gary Schloss.
Studio City, CA
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