Originally Posted by
J_3
Just looking around on the internet it seems quite possible that it is actually coated. Electroplating was around at the time, and it is quite possible to electroplate various brass formations onto zinc, tinned steel, or bronze. If this is the case then it still amazes me that a camera that was rather expensive in the day would resort to brass plating above just using solid brass (hard chrome is another matter because that confers other benefits). Some of the components rely on the metal acting like a spring, so maybe it was to get those parts of the design working well that a coated product was chosen.
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