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Old July 16th 20, 09:45 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
geoff
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Default Metal better than "engineered" plastic bodies for high-endprocessing

On 16/07/2020 7:40 pm, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 16 July 2020 00:29:29 UTC-4, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:24:10 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

https://www.dpreview.com/news/096533...-r5-r6-cameras

Magnesium alloy was used in the body to dissipate heat away from internal components


They would have done better with copper.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens


Better still with silver, but there are practical limits, mostly cost/weight related.


Beryllium, but don't touch it.

geoff