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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Titanium or Titanized?
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:01:09 -0700
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Jack Herron wrote:
> 
> I think the "Titanized" could be considered a derisive term coined by
> someone who was misled by Leica advertising into believing that the camera
> was MADE of titanium, just as I was.  Nothing in the ads indicated that the
> titanium was just a crisp, thin sugar shell.  Rather like advertising an
> item as "gold" when it is really zinc with gold plate.  The titanium may
> well be the very best coating ever applied to a Leica, but if I buy a
> "titanium" watch, the case is actually made of titanium, not just painted
> with titanium, and the ads from Leica mirrored the watch ads at the same
> time and led one to believe that the titanium was a construction material
> and never revealed that it was merely a coating.  In the circumstances I
> think Titanized is appropriate and probably preferable to "cam sham scam".
> Jack Herron
><Snip> 

What got me was instead of the titanium camera being lighter than the
usual - it was heavier.
This was because you were really getting camera with more brass in it
with titanium paint.
Call it a brass camera.
Really nice titanium paint though. Not just sprayed on with a Krylon can
but done in a vacuum by x pearl divers who can hold thier breath for a shift.
And I'm really fond of brass and will sometimes put up with the extra
wight to be able to work with it.
It has a better ring for me than aluminum but so far in my Leica gear
the aluminum has one over. And I guess there's Zinc in there too.
At one point CameraWorld was all out of 35 Summicron Asph black and
wanted to sell me a silver or chrome one at the same price.
What a deal! Picking it up if felt like it was taken out of the center
of a black hole.
How did they put so much heaviness into such a cute little lens? I
wanted to know.

I just remember that episode of Superman when he takes that coal and
squeezes it real hard and makes a big diamond out of it.
That's the vibe i got off of this chrome lens.
It would be nice of Leica really and cut some pieces out of titanium and
came out with a titanium camera, which would have been a bit lighter
than the regular. As Olympus, Nikon and other companies had set a
precent in doing.
It would be real nice to have this option. Lying is always going to be
bad for PR.

Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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