brass SLRs?

[wblati]

I was wondering if there are any brass SLRs?

 

[rxmd]

You mean like this?

 

[NathanJD]

My Olympus OM-2n has a brass top plate (and bottom plate too i think) it is beautifully brassed 🙂

 

[oftheherd]

My Olympus OM-2n has a brass top plate (and bottom plate too i think) it is beautifully brassed 🙂

My first thought too. I think many of the older SLR were brass, especially the black ones. My Fujicas are, not so sure about some of the old Yashica TLs or Pentax SVs.

But if the OP was asking about original brass finishes, I think (besides NathanJD's example), there may have been a couple, but I don't recall for sure.

 

[maddoc]

My Nikon FM and F3HP show some brassing ..

 

[johannielscom]

Chinon Memotron CE-II
Chinon Memotron CE-II redone by buzzardkid, on Flickr

 

[wallace]

my black Pentax MX shows brassing...

 

[Ljós]

Black Pentax Spotmatics brass beautifully.

 

[Luddite Frank]

Would think that by the SLR era, top & bottom covers / plates (stamped sheet metal trim) were brass, but the bodies themselves were some sort of casting (aluminum or die-cast zinc alloy).

Not certain about late metal-clad cameras, such as the Canon AE-1 Program, but believe the trimmings would have been brass until the switch to plastic / carbon fiber bodies/casings.

Just my 2-cents' worth...

LF

 

[alistair.o]

I was wondering if there are any brass SLRs?

The answers that have been given thus far, are they the sort of thing you were after? Or maybe you have seen camera showing brass and wondered if it had been painted over - perhaps!?

Let us know.

Alistair