On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:27:15AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Hmm. Most of my better cameras of recent years have been magnesium skinned > and weather sealed.
Perhaps I should have said more expensive. Except for certain brands and models, price plays a huge price in the digital camera market, and most people don't care enough to spend an extra $50 or $100 to have the metal on the outside. > > Godfrey > > > > On Oct 13, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There is that. Also with modern cameras the outside shell is made of > > plastic, they used to be made of metal. You could build a camera that didn't > > have the plastic shell over the metal frame, but it would be a lot harder > > to weatherseal. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
