Panasonic ditches plastic in its new G-body

RichA wrote:
On Jul 18, 8:19 am, RichA wrote:
The G5. Apparently, the body is aluminum. According to this
article. They mistakenly call it the G3 though.

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...panasonic-lumi...

Seems only the "front plate" is aluminum.

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/pan...-lumix-dmc-g5/


Hi,

This reminds me of when the Olympus OM-4Ti first appeared with much
advertising about the new titanium body. It turns out that the body was
identical to the old OM-4, and only a very thin top plate was titanium.
Does it really matter, except for marketing? No.

Mort Linder

Mort wrote in :




Course it matters. It effects camera size, and most weather-sealed bodies
are metal. All semi-pro and pro bodies are metal, for strength and
tolerance control.