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From: Ray Fischer on 12 Mar 2010 22:49 RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Mar 11, 10:40�pm, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >> RichA �<rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > "Nomen Nescio" <thefreespeechst...(a)gmail.com> >> >>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/researchers-get-plastic-t... >> >> >Conducting heat will have some uses, but being as STRONG as metal >> >isn't in the cards, is it? >> >> Because often you need something stronger. >> Or lighter. >> Or cheaper. > >Bingo! Your third answer is the one!!! Which you should appreciate given the cheap camera that you bought. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net
From: David J. Littleboy on 12 Mar 2010 23:15 "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote in message news:4b9b0b55$0$1590$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... > RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>On Mar 11, 10:40 pm, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >>> RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> > "Nomen Nescio" <thefreespeechst...(a)gmail.com> >>> >>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/researchers-get-plastic-t... >>> >>> >Conducting heat will have some uses, but being as STRONG as metal >>> >isn't in the cards, is it? >>> >>> Because often you need something stronger. >>> Or lighter. >>> Or cheaper. >> >>Bingo! Your third answer is the one!!! > > Which you should appreciate given the cheap camera that you bought. You all are forgetting the important issue: ruggedness. This is an area that all metal cameras are incredibly poor at. A plastic shell over a metal frame (the basic design of all dSLRs) is way superior to metal over metal (Nikon F, Olympus OM, Hasselblad 500 series) because it absorbs shocks instead of transmitting them, and recovers instead of denting. -- David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan
From: Savageduck on 13 Mar 2010 01:32 On 2010-03-12 20:15:03 -0800, "David J. Littleboy" <davidjl(a)gol.com> said: > > "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote in message > news:4b9b0b55$0$1590$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... >> RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mar 11, 10:40 pm, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >>>> RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> "Nomen Nescio" <thefreespeechst...(a)gmail.com> >>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/researchers-get-plastic-t... >>>> >>>>> Conducting heat will have some uses, but being as STRONG as metal >>>>> isn't in the cards, is it? >>>> >>>> Because often you need something stronger. >>>> Or lighter. >>>> Or cheaper. >>> >>> Bingo! Your third answer is the one!!! >> >> Which you should appreciate given the cheap camera that you bought. > > You all are forgetting the important issue: ruggedness. This is an area that > all metal cameras are incredibly poor at. A plastic shell over a metal frame > (the basic design of all dSLRs) is way superior to metal over metal (Nikon > F, Olympus OM, Hasselblad 500 series) because it absorbs shocks instead of > transmitting them, and recovers instead of denting. ....and sometimes when metal impacts metal this is the result; http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Ichinse-01cw.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck
From: Douglas Johnson on 13 Mar 2010 11:51 RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Mar 11, 10:40�pm, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >> RichA �<rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > "Nomen Nescio" <thefreespeechst...(a)gmail.com> >> >>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/researchers-get-plastic-t... >> >> >Conducting heat will have some uses, but being as STRONG as metal >> >isn't in the cards, is it? >> >> Because often you need something stronger. >> Or lighter. >> Or cheaper. >> > >Bingo! Your third answer is the one!!! Really? Exactly what design are we discussing? Did you sit in on the design sessions? Review the design requirements? -- Doug
From: Robert Coe on 13 Mar 2010 13:02
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:15:13 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: : On Mar 11, 10:40�pm, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: : > RichA �<rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: : > > "Nomen Nescio" <thefreespeechst...(a)gmail.com> : > >>http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/researchers-get-plastic-t... : > : > >Conducting heat will have some uses, but being as STRONG as metal : > >isn't in the cards, is it? : > : > Because often you need something stronger. : > Or lighter. : > Or cheaper. : : Bingo! Your third answer is the one!!! This from a man who's recently been conducting a one-man crusade against the price of high-end cameras. What's wrong with trying to use the cheapest materials that will do the job? That's why they make boats, airplanes, and sometimes automobile bodies, out of plastic. But you know all this, don't you? If you didn't, you'd at least pretend that you did. Most of the people in the photography groups appear to be college graduates who work in (or are retired from careers in) fairly technical fields. You wouldn't embarrass yourself in front of us if you could halp it. What, exactly, are you trying to prove? Bob |