Fingerprints I would suppose! Raw titanium actually shows fingerprints and such
fairly easily and on a camera body it would be tough to keep clean. It would
have a pretty cool look to it though. I would vote for a brushed finish as it
would be easy to clean up minor cosmetic scratches (and the dreaded
fingerprints) by brushing with one of those plastic green brillo-pad things. The
other factor is that finishing Ti via bead blasting/brushing would be more
difficult to do on a camera body than just painting it.
One could also to a multi-color "ti-dye" anodization job. If you have ever seen
the Cinelli multi-color Grammo ti stems or Union ti spokes you know what I am
talking about.
Jim Couch
Chip Stratton wrote:
> What I would like to see is a 4Ti completely stripped of paint, with only
> the natural titanium, maybe in a matte finish like my mountain bike. There
> must be some reason Olympus never did something like this, but I like
> titanium's natural grey/green appearance.
>
> Chip Stratton
> cstrat@xxxxxxxxx
>
> > Some day John, you should send a paint worn Ti top and bottom to a firm
> > that anodizes Ti and have them strip the old paint and anodize them dark
> > green, purple or some colour.
> >
> > Giles
> >
> > John Hermanson wrote:
> >
> > > The only way to refinish a badly worn top is to replace it, otherwise it
> > > will probably end up looking "tampered".
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