Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Mark Walberg wrote: >> >> So,then, the titanium ones are titanium over brass? Why do they have >> to make them titanium over brass instead of straight titanium. > >I can think of two reasons: First, titanium is a difficult material to >work with. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that making lens >barrels out of the stuff is not the easiest task to tackle. >Secondly, Leica equipment is quite expensive enough. If they were to >make lenses out of pure titanium, the end product would probably have >a price tag larger than some smaller countries' fiscal budget. >Not to mention what the price of a lens hood would be... ;) >Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | >Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just DOHH it! >SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ >Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho Well, maybe Martin. However, many bicycles have titanium parts. Pedal axles, various bolts, even whole frames are built and machined from titanium. They have become very popular. Such frames contain a few pounds of titanium. -Mark Walberg