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Fuji X Series- black or silver finish more durable & scratch resistant?

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Re: Fuji X Series- black or silver finish more durable & scratch resistant?

For the majority of Fuji bodies, you’re looking at a dull magnesium alloy that’s been painted to appear either silver or black. Both scratch just as easily, but when the silver version - that’s finished to appear as solid shiny metal - is scratched or worn away, the darker undercoat or the slightly different shade of dull metal underneath looks odd, and ruins the illusion.

When the black paint is scratched or worn, it’s either to a black undercoat that doesn’t show, or it’s to metal that’s lighter and shinier than the black, so it looks like what it is - authentic wear. For most people it looks better.

As another poster pointed out, none of this applies to the X100V which is solid shiny aluminium throughout, or the dura silver X-Pro3 which is (a) much harder to scratch, and (b) takes it’s natural colour from the titanium underneath.

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