Am I the only one who love chrome bodies?

Been thinking about getting one of the refurbished Zorki 1 in bright chrome.

I picked up a chrome FM recently and whilst searching I noticed that the black variant still seems to hold value better. I would have preferred a black version but what's the point?

I'm a sucker for a bit of brassing though

I really like my chrome FE. Digital cameras are (mostly) all black, so the chrome looks more "retro". I had a planned to get a black FM so I could differentiate between them quickly and have a camera that didn't rely on batteries but I found that the FE is a battery miser and when I found a black one in a thrift store I snatched it up for my wife. I still like mine in chrome better though

Adam

MFstooges said:

So did you find the chrome finish stands better on abuse? I never had a black metal body except one F3 that I bought used, and it has brassing on the corners. I've seen a lot of beat up black bodies but not too many chrome.
But I agree with some folks here that black finish has its own beauty too for some models. And those beat up black bodies, they're just like transported from war zone!

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Actually, it's a variant of the "white car syndrome": the chrome cameras just don't show the wear as obviously as the black bodies do. Insofar as the "war zone" issue goes: For many it reflects the wear and tear of innumerable adventures and a life lived to the fullest (i.e. picture first, dammit!); for others, however, it is something of a fiction: it allows some of the "talkers" and "collectors" (read: the technophiles", and BS artists) to imagine/pretend that they, in the course of their real/imagined photographic journeying, have extended themselves above and beyond the call of photographic duty to capture that once in-a-lifetime-image, the evidence, of course, displayed for all to see (i.e. the brassed and beat-up camera body).

BradleyK said:

Actually, it's a variant of the "white car syndrome": the chrome cameras just don't show the wear as obviously as the black bodies do. Insofar as the "war zone" issue goes: For many it reflects the wear and tear of innumerable adventures and a life lived to the fullest (i.e. picture first, dammit!); for others, however, it is something of a fiction: it allows some of the "talkers" and "collectors" (read: the technophiles", and BS artists) to imagine/pretend that they, in the course of their real/imagined photographic journeying, have extended themselves above and beyond the call of photographic duty to capture that once in-a-lifetime-image, the evidence, of course, displayed for all to see (i.e. the brassed and beat-up camera body).

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Good morning, Bradley;

Sir, you may well have a point there. Back in the days before I bought and later began driving a white Ford Econoline E310 van, I mainly drove BMW motorcycles. While driving through New England, I stopped at a BMW shop along side of the highway I was traveling. The night before, I had just finished traveling 450 miles in the rain. The owner of the shop where I had stopped looked at my BMW R-60/2 and told me that I was not a true BMW rider, because my BMW needed to be washed. At the time it had about 120,000 miles on it.

I did not seem to understand that I was supposed to be taking much more time out of the driving I was doing, and should have been putting that time into the washing, polishing, and waxing of the vehicle instead. Earlier I had put 54,000 miles on a R-51/3, and 87,000 miles on my R-60/1 before a silver Chevrolet Corvette found it one morning in Washington, D. C. The R-60/1 fought back valiantly; it punctured holes in that fiber glass body.

Well, at least I could see an analogy there.

That shop owner should have been selling Harleys instead. True BMW riders do not preen, they ride.

I did my "Iron butt" on a Honda

guitstik said:

I did my "Iron butt" on a Honda

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So did I. I don't have a BMW bike, but I've known plenty of serious riders who have, and I think some of them only washed the bike when it had enough crud on it to affect the fuel mileage- or the handling!