Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens wt vs finish->Now question about titanium
From: dmm@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Andrew M. Moore)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:19:51 -0400 (EDT)
 
> It is true, however that brass is an inherently softer metal than titanium
> and, in theory, more prone to denting. 

I suspect that the brass would absorb (and disappate) more shock
than would a harder metal.  The harder metal might simply transmit
the shock to the more fragile internals.