Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit

On Aug 1, 3:08 pm, (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
RichA wrote:
The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s.
What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to
leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only
the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like
a badge of honour.
However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied
DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would
cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0706/07060101pentax50thdslr.asp

--http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2007/070416_argument.html

Better, but still silvered plastic. Sad, when you consider even the
lowliest Pentax SLR (K1000 $129.body when it left production) was
metal shelled.

RichA wrote:

On Aug 1, 3:08 pm, (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
RichA wrote:
The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s.
What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to
leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only
the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like
a badge of honour.
However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied
DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would
cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0706/07060101pentax50thdslr.asp

Better, but still silvered plastic. Sad, when you consider even the
lowliest Pentax SLR (K1000 $129.body when it left production) was metal
shelled.

Early K1000s were, but later ones had plastic tops.

--
http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2..._argument.html

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The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s.
What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to
leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only
the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like
a badge of honour.
However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied
DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would
cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black.


Why on earth would anyone spend more than a scant second of time concerned
with such mundane issues as color choices of plastic bodied cameras?
At the price point, you like silver, get it, you like black, get it. What
mature individual give a rats ass what anyone superficially thinks in this
regard?

In article 1185944004.981272@ftpsrv1, frederick wrote:
Nikon also made the "FA" in silver or black. IIRC the black ones were
polycarbonate and better than the silver ones which were ABS.

That's odd. Makes me wonder where the traces of brass on my FA come from.


--
That was it. Done. The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it
could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done
by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make.
-- Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

JoeT wrote:

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On Aug 1, 8:15 am, Randall Ainsworth wrote:



Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones
when exposed to the sun.



Are you seriously saying you leave your camera lying around in the sun
long enough for UV exposure to become a greater heating issue than
actual air temperature?
Geesh man get a grip on something that resembles reality.


Have you never sat at a table in the south of France with your camera
next to you in August, and found you couldn't pick it up?

Get a life!

Every camera should be turned into a small oven from time to time, just
to keep repair men happy!

David

Philip Homburg wrote:
In article 1185944004.981272@ftpsrv1, frederick wrote:
Nikon also made the "FA" in silver or black. IIRC the black ones were
polycarbonate and better than the silver ones which were ABS.

That's odd. Makes me wonder where the traces of brass on my FA come from.


Somewhere else?
Unless it's a gold one - painted black for security reasons, but the
lizard skin might give it away:
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...s/P1000888.jpg

Philip Homburg wrote:
In article 1185944004.981272@ftpsrv1, frederick wrote:

Nikon also made the "FA" in silver or black. IIRC the black ones were
polycarbonate and better than the silver ones which were ABS.


That's odd. Makes me wonder where the traces of brass on my FA come from.



If you rub down many silver-chrome plated polycarbonate body cameras,
the next layer which shows is copper (not true brass) because that is
how they are plated - a conductive copper alloy is coated on to the
plastic by a process akin to painting, and the chrome outer is then
plated on to the copper in a fairly thick layer. This can feel like
metal because it is metal, externally, but it's really a plated
polycarbonate.

David

In article ,
David Kilpatrick wrote:
If you rub down many silver-chrome plated polycarbonate body cameras,
the next layer which shows is copper (not true brass) because that is
how they are plated - a conductive copper alloy is coated on to the
plastic by a process akin to painting, and the chrome outer is then
plated on to the copper in a fairly thick layer. This can feel like
metal because it is metal, externally, but it's really a plated
polycarbonate.

Wow. Those engineers at Nikon are really something. They can build
plastic cameras like they are make out of metal. Very impressive.


--
That was it. Done. The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it
could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done
by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make.
-- Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

JoeT wrote:

"RichA" wrote in message
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The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s.
What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to
leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only
the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like
a badge of honour.
However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied
DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would
cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black.


Why on earth would anyone spend more than a scant second of time
concerned with such mundane issues as color choices of plastic bodied
cameras?
At the price point, you like silver, get it, you like black, get it.
What mature individual give a rats ass what anyone superficially thinks
in this regard?


I'm with RichA on this.
If you're taking photos of people, it does make a difference as they
won't take you seriously if you're obviously using a silver camera that
looks like a toy. You can dismiss this as fantasy if you like, but you
are wrong. If you aren't taking photos of people, then it doesn't
matter a rat's arse.

RichA wrote:

Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones
when exposed to the sun.

So silver plastic would be better than silver metal, as plastic doesn't
transmit heat as fast.