Go to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Look at the crash test results for Lexus and Mercedes.
www.safercar.gov
You dont want to be in a japanese car in accident but a Mercedes.
Except it doesn't. Aluminum is lighter, and engineers know how to make an aluminum engine strong and tough. Look at F1 engines. They use aluminum and magnesium wherever they can.
The ferric material used for engines blocks is cast iron, not steel.
Go to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Look at the crash test results for Lexus and Mercedes.
www.safercar.gov
Hey! Stop confusing the debate with facts!
There's a movie in the works called "Steel Leicas", its a movie about a bunch of old APUGers who bond together through their delicate love of the Leica cameras and how those not using Leicas are simply wasting many years, time, film and effort producing crap.
I can go on and on....
We are not worthy.
Don't be so hard on yourself Thomas ....................... but no, no you aren't.
BTW, have a great time at Photostock. Drink a beer or two for me!
Please do. Way more interesting than than the posts on how nothing but Leicas are garbage. And hey, I have an MP and lovely set of Leica lenses. But think my Contax, Pentax, and Nikon lenses are wonderful too. Just got a Konica Hexar AF....wonder what I'll think of that lens?
I use Nikon SLRs because I like their features and handling best, the construction is just about impeccable, and the optics are just dandy.
Why on earth would you use a Nikon? Did you not read this quote?
"Use a Toyota , it kills you at an accident with care."
Now you're just putting peoples lives at risk you heartless @#!*% !
Rich, I've had two M3s, a IIIG that was too perfect to use so I sold it, the use of an R3 with 28, 50, 135, and some Angenieux zoom; and a CL with 40 & 90mm lenses. I know what Leitz lenses can do, and as a mechanician who works on things like precision timepieces I appreciate the sheer gorgeousness of Leica construction. But guess what? I look at the slides and negatives I took with the Leicas and while sometimes I can see a difference, the pictures are no better. I use SLRs because they will do things no rangefinder will do. I use Nikon SLRs because I like their features and handling best, the construction is just about impeccable, and the optics are just dandy. The 50/2 Nikkor H, the 105/2.5, and a few others of the pre AI era are world class.
But.
When I want grainless enlargements with utterly smooth tonality I reach for the 4x5. When I want a contact print and even smoother tonality I grab the 8x10 and a 100+ year old Dagor.
When I want a small handheld camera with the highest possible quality I take out the Rolleiflex.
Why on earth would you use a Nikon? Did you not read this quote?
"Use a Toyota , it kills you at an accident with care."
Now you're just putting peoples lives at risk you heartless bastard!
Right there with you across the board! Love that old Nikkor glass! Those two you mention are in particular my fav Nikon lenses. Using them with my F2 is sheer joy...
I'm really confused. Mustafa clearly said a steel Leica would make me better than da Vinci and Rembrandt combined. Now you guys are saying I can keep using my Nikon. I don't know what to believe anymore.
Don't forget Saab and Volvo.
I'm really confused. Mustafa clearly said a steel Leica would make me better than da Vinci and Rembrandt combined. Now you guys are saying I can keep using my Nikon. I don't know what to believe anymore.
Horses for courses. Cast iron damps vibrations making for a quieter engine, all things being equal. The piston engines used in the B-36 had magnesium crankcases, and owing partly to the fact that they were buried in the wings were prone to catastrophic engine fires. An aluminium cylinder head cools better, owing to it's superior heat transfer, and allows power outputs which would simply not be possible with iron heads - but that same superior heat transfer means a bit more fuel is used to make the same power. I can go on and on, cast iron pistons in diesel engines have superior flame propogation near the piston crown; but can't be used beyond a certain level of thermal stress, where aluminium takes over (even when the pistons are water cooled).
Any engineering project is an almost endless series of compromises.
I'm really confused. Mustafa clearly said a steel Leica would make me better than da Vinci and Rembrandt combined. Now you guys are saying I can keep using my Nikon. I don't know what to believe anymore.
Correct.
The Buick 215 was a great all-aluminum engine but GM had yet not learned how to make them without a high scrap rate. The engine's Olds variant won an F1 championship.
Yes, good as Leicas are, the cast steel ones will never be as good as the forged ones. Some say the made of stainless are just as good, but I keep thinking, "Which will protect me better in an accident?"
Yes, good as Leicas are, the cast steel ones will never be as good as the forged ones. Some say the made of stainless are just as good, but I keep thinking, "Which will protect me better in an accident?"
The 1966 SOHC Repco-Brabham engine with which Jack Brabham won the 1966 F1 drivers' championship was built around a highly modified GM block but was far, far from the pushrod GM engine. The 1967 SOHC Repco-Brabham engine used Repco's own block. GM derived, not GM.
My Rover P6B had a Rover-made 215 GM V8. I think the big difference between Rover's version and the original was carburation, the Rover version used SUs. My example was very problematic.
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