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Why not a titanium body ?

Started Sep 11, 2020 | Discussions thread
LightBug Senior Member • Posts: 2,818
Magnesium is lighter than Titanium

zakaria wrote:

what I want from Pentax:

a strong yet light "titanium" body like Fujifilm X Pro 3 or an aluminum body like K01 to keep the weight much lighter than stainless steel.

The design:

is by sliding all the upper buttons and keeping a small screen at the top right. Why not go back to a design close to the K5 instead of crowding buttons .

Weight:

close to the weight of K50 or KS1.

I hope to see a body matching with the limited lenses. Let's keep K1 line for the Star lenses and the APS-C for the ltds lense .

I'm rather surprised myself when I googled "Magnesium vs Titanium". Magnesium is what most higher end cameras like K1 and K3 use.

https://cdiichinadirect.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/magnesium-is-called-the-metal-of-the-future-for-a-reason-lillian-wong/

Quote: "Magnesium is 33% lighter than aluminum, 60% lighter than titanium, and 75% lighter than steel. Yet for many applications it’s stronger per unit volume than all three of those structural metals."

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