On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:20:07 -0000, Rob Brigham wrote: > >Now I really want to know what the body on the *ist D is made of - it >truly looks magnesium to me!
I think it is plastic, first because of the expected low pricing and second because of how it looks here: http://www.digitalcamera.jp/html/HotNews/image/2003-02/27/ist-D-1L.jpg Check the grip surface just left of the lens, that pattern looks different from the MZ-S and very much like plastic if you ask me ... (But I'll get one anyway, ASAP :-) Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery