Contax G seems to have a titanium skin only on the lenses - heavy chrome
lens mount. Body is light though.
Andrew
>The Leica Titanium lenses (now discontinued) are chrome lenses with the
>titanium finish. Much heavier than the black versions; and far too heavy
>for my tastes.
>
>Skip
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>At 11:18 AM 3/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>
>>Dirk Wright wrote:
>>
>> > But, speaking of titanium, why, or why, has no manufacturer, at least
>>to my
>> > knowledge, every made the lens bodies from the stuff? Lenses are a
>> > significant part of the total weight of the camera.
>>
>>Leica has 3 titanium lenses, but I believe they are only titanium on the
>>outside, for looks, I think the internal construction is the same as the
>>black or chrome versions.
>>
>>--
>>Andrew "Frugal" Dacey,
>>frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>>
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